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appearance, being of a violet-purple color, the 

 carina marked with two blue Ipots : the pod is 

 Ihort, tumid, broadifh, and contains eight or 

 ten black globular feeds. 

 It is reckoned to be a good fodder for cattle. 



** Floribus a^dllaribus, Jejfilibus. 



Jativa 3. VICIA leguminibus feffilibus fubbinatis erectis, fo- 

 liolis retufis, ftipulis notatis. Sp.pl. 1037, (Ger. 

 em. my. f. i. Rivin. t. §^, Moris, hiji.f. 1. 1. 4. 

 /. 12. Oed. Dan. t. 522. 



Common Vetch, or Tare. AngHs. 



In corn fields frequent. O. VI. 



The whole plant is hairy : the flalk a foot high, 

 ftriated and weak : the leaves confiil commonly 

 of five or fix pairs of pinnae, which are either 

 heart-lhap'd, or obtufely lanceolate, or oval, or 

 linear, the nerve ending in a point : the tendrils 

 are trifid : xhcftiptila; dentated, and marked with 

 a dark red fpor, which looks as if it had been 

 burnt in : the flowers are of a blueifli red, or 

 purple color, growing two together from the aU 

 of the leaves, and oftentimes only one, on very 

 fhort peduncles: the dents of the calyx are all 

 ftrait, the under ones the longeil : the pod is 

 hairy when young, but grows liiioother by ao-e, 

 and contains from five to ten feeds, generally of 

 a pale green color, with black fpots, but in fome 

 varieties almoft black or white. 



It is known to be an excellent fodder for horfes ; in 



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