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rows. The flowers are large and showy, eight or ten of them 

 upon a stalk. Leaves formed of two lance- shaped leaflets, and 

 a long, two or three-cleft, twisted tendril. Stipules as large 

 as the leaves, growing at every joint along the stem and 

 branches. Pods long, smooth, and black. Cattle are very 

 fond of this plant. 



O. S. Yellow Vetchling, Crimson Vetchling, or Grass-Vetch, Rough- 

 podded Vetchling, Blue Marsh Vetchling, Narrow-leaved Everlasting 

 Pea, Broad-leaved Everlasting Pea, very often grown in gardens, and 

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VETCH. VICIA. 



TUFTED VETCH. Vicia cracca. 



Plate 11, fig. 10. 

 Stem climbing. Flowers on long stalks, many together. 



One of the most elegant plants, well deserving a place in 

 the gardens, for when trained upon two or three sticks, as 

 Sweet Peas are, it forms a fine, flowering, graceful plant, of 

 some feet in height. When it climbs among the hedges, its 

 long, upright bunches of fine blue, drooping flowers, nume- 

 rous as they are beautiful, always attract attention, for at every 

 leaf throughout the whole plant, a flower stalk grows, and this 

 bears, perhaps, thirty flowers, close together, and lapping over 

 each other, so as to appear as a spike of the most vivid blue. 

 The leaves are of about ten pair of slightly-hairy leaflets, and 

 ending in a much-branched, long tendril. Pods smooth. 



COMMON VETCH. Vicia sativa. 



Plate 11, fig. 11. 

 Stem upright. Flowers nearly sessile, two together. 



It may be doubted if the Common Vetch or Tare, as it is 

 called, be really a native plant, through it is so often cultivated 

 either alone or with Rye Grass, as a green Spring food for 

 cattle. It mostly grows upright, blossoms in May or June, 

 bears about two flowers together, and these are of a reddish- 

 purple color, very nearly sessile. The leaves are pinnate, 

 with a branched tendril. Leaflets from two to six pair, and, 



