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tufe, gradually fmaller upv.aids.-^Comriion in hedges and 

 buthjr places throughout Europe, flowering wath us in May 

 and June. The root is perennial, fomewhat creeping. Stems 

 about two feet high, weak, but little branched, furrowed, 

 clinging to other plants by the tendrils of their leaves. The 

 whole herb is clothed with fcattered Ihort hairs. Leaflets 

 twelve to fifteen, of a dull greyifh-green ; the loweft an inch 

 in length, the uppermoll half as much. Stipulas ovate, 

 acute, marked with a brown depreflion ; the lower ones ge- 

 nerally half-arrow (hapcd. Flowers crowded, dull purplifh- 

 blue, rather (hort and thick. Legumes nearly ereft when 

 ripe, linear-lanceolate, an inch and a half long, blackiih, 

 minutely dotted, not hairy. Seeds about fix or eight glo- 

 bular, fmooth. 



43. V. bithymca. Rough-podJcd Purple Vetch. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 1038. Willd. n.40. Fl. Brit. n. 9. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1842. Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 2. t. 147. AUion. Pedem. 

 V. I. 325. t. 26. f. 2. fCracca floribus albis, foliis circa 

 caulem denticulatis ; Buxb. Cent. 3. 25. t. 45. f. 2.) — Le- 

 gumes ftalked, folitary, ereft, rough. Leaflets two pair, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, or nearly linear. Stipulas toothed. — 

 Native of Greece, Italy and Bavaria, in cultivated fields ; 

 as well as of bufhy places in Yorklhire and Worcefterfliire, 

 and of fields, or rocky fituation?, near the coaft of Hanip- 

 (hire, Dorfetfliire, and Devonlhire, flowering from May to 

 July. The root is perennial, branching, w-ith many fmall 

 fle{hy knobs. Stems angular, trailing or climbing, two feet 

 long, fmooth. Leajlets from one to two inches long, vary- 

 ing from a line to one-third of an inch in breadth, acute ; 

 rather hairy underneath. StipuLis large, half-an-owfliaped, 

 vcrv deeply, but varioudy, toothed. Floiucr-Jlalls various in 

 length, from half an inch to an inch and a half, hairy as 

 well as the long-toothed calyx. Flo-ivers nearly as large as 

 V, lutea, purple, occafionally white. Legume oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, an inch and half long, half an inch broad, reticu- 

 lated, rough with tawny hairs. Seeds five or fix, fpeckled. 

 The keel and •wings of the Jlower, pure white, tipped or 

 tinged with blue or violet, when frefli, turn greenifli or 

 brownifh twelve hours after gathering. 



^.V.platycarpos. Flat-podded Vetch. " Roth. Ab- 

 liandl. 10. t. 1." Willd. n. 41. Ait. n. 24. ( Aracus faba- 

 ccus, et Faba Kayrina, cui fcmina minora; Bauh. Hift. v. 2. 

 286. ) — " Legumes folitary, nearly feifile, compreflfed, fome- 

 what inflated. Leaflets ovate, toothed at the end. Stipu- 

 las with fringe-like teeth." — Native of Germany. Annual. 

 Cultivated in Chclfea garden in 1723, flowering in July 

 and Auguft. Alton. Stem a foot and half high, thick, an- 

 gular, hollow, a little hairy. Leaflets four, like thofe of 

 V. Faba, hairy, dark green, with a long branching tendril. 

 Stipulas broad. Flowers purple'. Legumes large, longifli, 

 hairy. Seeds the fize of peas, of a ftrong difagrceable talle 

 and fmell ; black when ripe. Bauhin. 



45. V. narbonenfis. Broad-leaved Narbonne Vetch. Liim. 

 Sp. PI. cd. I. 737. Willd. n. 42. Ait. n. 2j. "Roth. 

 Abhandl. 10. t. 2." Rivin. Tetrap. Irr. t. 57. (Faba fyl- 

 vcllris ; Matth. Valgr. v. I. 381. Ger. Em. 1209.) — Le- 

 gumes about three together, nearly foflile, comprefted. 

 Leaflets ovate, obtufe, entire. Stipulas fringed ; toothed 

 ?.t the bafe. — Native of the ftouth of Europe. Annual. 

 The fi/.e of the lad. Leaflets one or two pair, with a 

 divided tendril, obtufe, quite entire, an inch and a half long, 

 one broad, hairy at the rib and margin. Flowers folitary; 

 iji a cultivated Hate two or three, dark purple. Germen 

 fringed. Legume oblong, rather hairy. Seeds globofe. 



46. V. Fala. Common Garden Bean. Lmn. Sp. P). 

 1039. Willd. n. 43. Ait. n. 26. ( Faba ; Matth. Valgr. 

 v. 1, 380. Rivin. Tetrap. Irr. t. 23. F. major, horttnfis ; 



Ger. Em. 1209.) — Stalks with feveral flowers, very Ihort. 

 Legumes afcending, tumid, coriaceous. Leaflets elliptical, 

 acute, entire. Tendril abortive. Stipulas half-arrowfhaped, 

 toothed at the bafe. — Native of the borders of Perfia, near 

 the Cafpian fea, according to Lerche. Commonly culti- 

 vated throughout Europe, for the fo»d of men and horfes • 

 there being many varieties, differing in the fize, roundnefs 

 or flatnefo, as well as quality, of the feeds. Annual, flower- 

 ing in June and July. The Jlem is from three to five feet 

 high. Leaflets fmooth, larger, more acul;e at each end, and 

 more alternate than in the two laft. Flowers from fix to 

 ten or more, on a fhort racemofe rtalk, dehcioufly flagrant, 

 white, with a broad black vclvet-hke fpot on each wing. 

 Calyx whitifli, with ovate taper teeth. Legume large, thick, 

 oblong, pulpy within while unripe, containing four or five 

 Jteds. 



The Faba minor five equina ; Bauh. Pin. 338. F. mi- 

 nor ; Rivin. Tetrap. Irr. t. 24 ; is the variety called the 

 Horfe Bean, known by its fmall pod and roundifli feeds. 

 Of this alfo cultivators obfervc many fubordinate varieties, 

 and perhaps /'. narbonenfls is often confounded among 

 them. 



47. V . ferratifoUa. Saw-leaved Vetch. Murr. in Linn. 

 Syfl. Veg. ed. 14. 665. .Tacq. Auftr. append, t. 8. Willd. 

 n. 44. Ait. n. 27. (V. narbonenfis ; Sm. Prodr. Fl. 

 Gric. Sibth. n. 1715. V. fupina, latilfimo folio ferrato ; 

 Tourn. Lift. 397. Aracus fabaceus ferratus ; Bauh. Hift. 

 v. 2. 287.) — Legumes about three together, nearly feffile, 

 fringed. Leaflets eUiptical, obtufe, fcrrated throughout, 

 as well as the ftipulas. — Native of Hungary, Greece, and 

 the ifland of Cyprus, in moift cultivated ground. A hardy 

 annual with us, flowering in June and July. This is nearly 

 related to the two laft, and ftill more perhaps to V. platy- 

 carpns ; but differs from all in the copious fharp ferratures 

 of the leaflets, which are ufually four pair, with a brancl\ed 

 tendril. Stipulas broad, fharply and copioufly toothed. 

 Flowers three or four, on a very fliort ftalk, dark purple. 

 Legume compreffed, with feven or eight ^oh\\\?.v feeds. 



We believe the Linnaean fynonyms, as here arranged, are 

 correft ; and yet Linnaeus, like other botanifts from time to 

 time, certainly confounded tliefe four laft fpecies more or 

 lefs together. His fpecimen marked narbonenfis, from the 

 Upfal garden, anfwers to the charatler of plalycarpos, the 

 leaflets l)eing toothed towards the extremity. Hence, in the 

 fecond edition of Sp. PI. he altered the fpecific charaftcr, 

 to ftipulifyut' denticulatis. _ But this is not an original fpeci- 

 men, anfwering to the firft edition of Sp. PI. which latter 

 \vc take as the moft certain authority ; and it is in this cafe 

 confi)nant with the fentiments of all authors, as above quoted. 

 The plant of the I'rodr. Fl. Gncc. therefore, by miftake 

 ciUed there narbonenfls, is really ferratifoUa, witli which ifs 

 fynonyms agree. Poflibly plalycarpos may be a variety of 

 ferratifoUa ; but for want of an authentic fpecimen, from 

 fonie author wiio has written upon it, we decline any de- 

 cifion upon that point. Thefe two, and the real narbonenfls, 

 agree in hairinefs ; the blunt rounded fhapc of their leaflets ; 

 the preftnce of tendrils ; the dark purple of their /?owfr/ ; 

 and the ftrong briilly fringe of their germens and ligumis ; 

 in all which points they difler from l^. Faba. 



ViciA, in Gardening, furniflics plants of the biennial, per- 

 ennial, and annual hardy kinds, among which the fpecies 

 cultivated are, the common vetch or tare (V. fativa) ; the 

 Narbonne vetch or tare (V. narbonenfis) ; the many-flowered 

 Siberian vetch {V. biennis) ; the wood many-flowered vetch 

 (V. fylvatica) ; the tufted vetch (V.iraeca) ; thcCafl"ubian 

 ligneous vetch (V. eaflubica) ; ami t lie common bean (V. 

 fuba. j 



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