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appearance, being of a violet-purple color, the 

 carina marked with two blue fpots : the pod is 

 Ihort, tumid, broadifh, and contains eight or 

 ten black globular feeds. 

 It is reckoned to be a good fodder for cattle. 



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Florihus axtUari!/uSy Jeffilihus. 



■Jativa 3. VICIA leguminibus fefTilibus fubbinatis ereclis, fo- 

 liolis retufis, ftipulis notatis. Sp, pi. lo^^y, (Ger, 

 em, 1227. /. 1. Rivin. t. §^, Moris. hiji,f. 2. /. 4. 

 /. 12. Oed, Ban. t, ^ii. 



Common Vetch, or Tare. AngVis, 



In corn fields frequent. G. VI. 



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

 ftriated and weak : the leaves con fid commonly 

 of five or fix pairs of pinna ^ which are either 

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

 linear, the nerve ending in a point : tne tendrils 

 are trifid : the flipuU dentated, and marked with 

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

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

 purple color, growing two together from the aU 

 of the leaves, and oitentimes only one, on very 

 Ihort peduncles : the dents of the ca/yx are all 

 ilrair, the under ones the longeft : the pod is 

 hairy when young, but grows fmoother by age, 

 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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