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PAHE flower is papilionaceous, and compofed of four petals. The vexiilum is of an ov 
al fori; 
. and has a long hollowed bottom. The ale are ftrait, of an oblong form, a little heart-faz 
fhioned, an fhorter than thé vekillum. The catina is flattéd, and half round, and is fmaller than 
the ale. The pods are placed on very long and flender footftalks; and there alwa 
ber of the flowers and pods together, and they hang downwards. 
ys grow a num- | 
Linneus places this among the diadelphia decandria’; the threads in the flower being ten, and col- 
lected into two parcels, nine in one, and a fingle one in the other. 
This author takes the eftablifhed name cracca from this genus ; and refers it to the vicia or tape 
The flowers of thefe plants refemble one another ; 
but we have here fhewn fufficient diftinétion for a 
generical character ; and it is extremely needful to feparate thefe and the tares, the fpecies undet each 
of thofe genera being numerous, and their diftinctions lefs obvious than in many other kinds, 
DIVISION 1 
1. Small Tine Tare. 
Gracca minor filiquis pluribus hirfutis. 
The root is fmall, and hung with numerous 
irregular fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and of a pale 
green: they are not much branched, and they are 
hardly a foot high, 
The leaves are regularly pinnated: each is 
compofed of five or fix pairs of pine, which are 
fhort, broad, fharp-pointed, and of a faint green. 
At the end of the rib in each leaf there grows a 
fall tendril. 
The flowers grow four, five, or more together, 
upon Jong and flender footftalks, which rife from 
the bofoms of the leaves: they are fmall, and of 
a mixed blue and white colour. 
The pods are broad and fhort: they are of a 
pale green, fomewhat hairy, and, when tho- 
roughly ripe, whitifh: the feeds are fmall and 
round, 
It is very common in corn-fields, and under ’ 
hedges. It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Vicia fegetum cum filiquis plu- 
vimis birfutis, é 
2. Smooth-podded Tine Tare. 
Cracca filiquis oblongis glabris. 
The root is fimall, oblong, divided into two 
or three parts, and furnithed with feveral fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, branched, a 
foot high, and of a pale green. 
The leaves are fmall and pinrated; and they 
have long tendrils: each is compofed of four or 
five pairs of oblong pinnae, with the tendril at the 
end. : 
The flowers grow on long, flender footftalks, 
two or three on each; and they are of a pale 
blue and white colour, and fmall. 
The pods are fhort and fmooth; and the feeds 
are fmall and round, 
The whole plant often lies upon the ground 
entangling every little herb near it. 
It is common in corn-fields efpecially where 
the foil is damp, and flowers in June. 
C. Baubine calls it Vicia fegetum Jiliquis fingu- 
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laribus glabris. But in this he has named it ill : 
the pods are fewer than in the preceding fpecies, 
but they feldom ftand fingly : two or three to- 
gether is the moft natural manner of growth, 
3. Tufted Tine Tare, 
Cracca multiflora fpicata; 
The root is compofed of numerous fmall fibres, 
The ftalk is round, weak, of a pale greens 
and branched. 
The leaves are pinnated, long, of a pale green; 
and terminated by a tendril in the place of an odd 
leaf: each is compofed of about eight pairs of 
Pinne ; and thefe are oblong, narrow, and 
pointed at the end: 
‘The flowers are fingle, and of a deep beautiful 
purple: they ftand in long fpikes, and are fup- 
ported on long, flender pedicles: but they have 
a drooping pofition. 
The pods are long and flender; and the feeds 
are {mall and round. 
It is common in hedges; ahd flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine call it Vicia multiflora. Others; 
Aracus, and Cracca, We call it Tufted vetches ; 
but it is not ftriGtly of the vetch kind. 
4. Great tufted Tine Tare. 
Cracca inultiflora [picata maxima, 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
humerous fibres. 
| The ftalk is round, and of a pale whitith green; 
much thicket than in the others of this kind, 
but not of ftrength to fupport itfelf: it climbs 
among bufhes, and grows to five feet-high, 
The leaves are vety beautiful: they are pind 
nated in a regular and elegant manner, and each 
has twelve or more pairs of pinnz: thefe are of 
an oval form, obtufe at the end, of a faint green; 
and not divided at all at the edges. A tendril 
terminates the rib inftead of an odd pinna; and 
there generally are fhoots for young branches al} 
the way up the plant in their bofoms. 
The flowers ftand in long fpikes; and are very 
beautiful : they are of a pale blue, ftreaked with 
a vety deep blue in {trong lines, 
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