SPECIES AND VARIETIES CULTIVATED. 



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sides of plantations and in hedgerows, to the height ,ot 

 4 to 5 feet, and carrying numerous flowers of a bluish or 



VICIA CEACCA Tufted Vetch or Tare. 



purple colour, in tufts or racemes as long or longer than 

 the leaves, and closely arranged along the peduncles or 

 footstalks. The root is small, creeping, and perennial. 



4. F. villosa Hairy or Russian Vetch. This species at 

 first sight is apt to be mistaken for the preceding, which 

 it very much resembles in flowers and foliage, but differs 

 essentially from it in having an annual root, while that is 

 perennial. The whole plant, too, is more villous or hairy, 

 of a taller and more branching habit of growth, and pro- 



