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as well as the stem, the leaf- stalks, the tendrils, and the pods, 

 all more or less hairy. Stipules small, with a black spot upon 

 each of them. Pod many seeded. Seeds quite smooth they 

 are a favorite food with pigeons. 



O. S. Wood Vetch, found in the North; Narrow-leaved Crimson Vetch, 

 Spring Vetch, Rough-podded Yellow Vetch, Hairy Yellow Vetch, Smooth- 

 podded Vetch, Rough-podded Purple Vetch, and Bush Vetch, the last by 

 no means rare. 



TARE. ERVUM. 



HAIRY TARE. Ervum hirsutum. 



Plate 11, Jiff. 12. 



This is but too common among the corn, creeping along for 

 two or three feet from the root, twisting around and clasping 

 hold of every thing it comes near to, and sometimes so abundant 

 that whole fields of corn are materially damaged by it. The 

 stem is square, very weak, and slender. The flowers blue, 

 very small, and insignificant, five or six together, on a long 

 stalk. Leaves of many pairs of leaflets, and ending in a branched 

 tendril. Leaflets truncate, that is, cut off at the end with a 

 point in the middle. Stem and pods hairy the latter two- 

 seeded. 



This is justly alluded to in the Holy Scriptures, as a weed, 

 not only worthless in itself, but choking plants of nobler uses. 

 A Tare then amongst the Wheat well represents the idle and 

 ungrateful, who cramp the exertions and stifle the resolves of 

 the industrious and the benevolent. 



O. S. Four-seeded Tare, almost as baneful as the former, but more 

 rare. It bears only two flowers together, and its pods are smooth, and 

 four-seeded. 



BIRD'S-FOOT. ORNITHOPUS. 



COMMON BIRD'S-FOOT. Ornithopus perpusillus. 



Plate II, fig. 13. 



One of the most beautiful little plants, rare in Scotland, but 

 in the sandy and gravelly parts of England, one of the most 

 common ; it creeps on the ground, with five or six little stems, 

 not above three or four inches in length. The flowers are very 

 small and most delicate, of a whitish -pink color striped with 

 purple, and many of them together in a headeach head of 



