56 VICIA. LATHYRUS. 



The cultivated variety is grown principally for cutting as green food 

 for horses, to supply the vacancy between the first and second cuttings 

 of red clover ; and for their harvest food during their then incessant 

 labour. 



1 50. V. SEPiuM. OTtlB Cave. In deans, meadows, and at hedge- 

 bottoms, common. . We sometimes meet with a white-flowered va- 

 riety. June. 



151. V. CRACCA. OTtlti ©arc. Rough boggy fields, and in 

 hedges, where it is very ornamental. July-Aug. 



152. V. SYLVATicA. "Wood Vetch : IMiVa 33ea. Deans and 

 brakes, abundantly. B. Along the whole range of our sea-banks, but 

 most profusely about the Needle-eye, below Lamberton Shields, in 

 the ravine above Ross, and in similar localities. Banks of Ale water. 

 On many parts of the banks of the Whiteadder ; and on the Tweed 

 at Dryburgh. Redpath dean in the west ; and on the east in Bed- 

 Clues Cleugh, and Penmanshiel wood. — D. Tweed banks beyond Ord 

 Mill. This locality possesses considerable interest. It is the frontage 

 of an old Roman camp, or " Chester knows" ; and there Charles I. 

 pitched his tent. May 28th, 1639, when on his march northwards 

 against the Scotch covenanters. The place was then called " the 

 Birks, two miles west of Berwick." Bord. Table Book, i. p. 260. 

 A concealment in the face of the precipice is still known as the 

 " King's cove." — For a minute account of the place see Raine's Hist. 

 N. Durham, p. 1 1. 



153. Orobus sylvaticus. Light. F1. Scot. 390. pi. 16. = Vicia 

 orobus. — B. Howpark dean ; and on a wooded bank between Grant' s- 

 House and Penmanshiel. Above the Rigg-wood on the Eye, J. 

 Hardy. Near Longformacus; in the Snail' s-Cleugh ; and on a whinny 

 bank between Millknowe and Priestley. 



154. Ervum HiRSXJTUM = Vicia hirsuta. Corn-fields, meadows, 

 and waste grounds, a common weed. June-Aug. 



12. Paba vulgaris. Don Gard. Diet. ii. 312. Cljt 33tan. Cul- 

 tivated from time immemorial ; and we may conclude, almost certainly, 

 that it does not grow wild near the Caspian Sea on the borders of 

 Persia, as stated by Willdenow, Sp. Plant, iii. p. 1111. The kinds 

 cultivated are the large and the small Horse bean, and sometimes the 

 Mazagan, which ripens earlier, but is not productive. 



13. Pisum arvense. Ci)t ificli) or ©ray ^tn. " Were formerly 

 a more general crop than at present : they are mostly grown upon 

 such lands as have been worn out by too long continuance in plough- 

 ing. The early and late Grey Pease are the principal kinds cultivated 

 here." Bailey and Cully's View, p. 90. See also Kerr's Berwick- 

 shire, p. 249. 



155. Lathyrus pratensis. Crato^praSc. Meadows and pas- 



15. Lathyrus nissolia. " Mr. Embleton intimates to me that it has oc- 

 curred (to whom?) near Leitholm, in Berwickshire." Watson Cyb. Brit. i. 

 p. 323. There is some mistake here, which I cannot explain. 



