Vicia Cracca. Tufted Veich, 



VICIA Lin. Gen. PL Diadelphia Decandria. 



Stigma latere inferiore tranfverfe barbatum. 



Rati Syn. Gen. 23. Herbje flore papilionaceo seu leguminos.se. 



VICIA Cracca pedunculis multifloris, floribus imbricatis, foliolis lanceolatis pubefcentibus, ftipulis 

 integris. Lin. Syjl. Vegetab.p. 553. Sp. PL p. 1035. FL Suec. n. 652. 



VICIA foliis lanceoiatis ferkeis, facernis multifloris reflexis, ftipulis integerrimis. Halkr. Hijl. n. 424. 



VICIA Cracca. Scopoli.Fl. Cam. n. 899. 



VICIA multiflora. Bank Pin. 34.5. 



VICIA multiflora feu fpicata. Park. 1072. 



CRACCA. Riv.Zetr.49. Raii Syn. p. 322. Tufted Vetches. Hud/on. FL Angl. p. 317. Lightfoot 

 FL Scot. p. 394. 



RADIX perennis, repens. | ROOT perennial and creeping. 



CAULIS bipedalis, tripedalis et ultra, pro ratione loci, | STALK, two, three feet or more in height, according' to 

 fcandens, angulofo-fulcatus, pubefcens, fra- f its place of growth, climbing, angular, grooved, 



gilis, frangendo crepitans, ramofus. | downy, brittle, fnapping when broken^ 



f branched. 



STIPULE binse, femifagittatae, integrae aut dentate. | STIPULE growing in pairs, each refembling half an 



% arrow, entire, or toothed. 



FOLIA pinnata, pinnarum 8 feu 1 2 parium, raro ultra, | LEAVES pinnated, compoled of 8 or 1 2 pair, feldom 

 oblongo-lanceolata, mucronata, utrinque feri- y more, oblong, lanceolate, terminated by a 



cea pube albida, pinnis oppofitis alternifve, | point, covered on each (ide with a kind of 



cirrho tripartito terminata. | white filky down, the pinna oppofite or alter- 



| nate, terminated by a tripartite cirrhus. 



FLORES racempfi. | FLOWERS growing in bunches or racemi. 



RACEMl alterni, multiflori, primo fubere&i, apice in- •% RACEMI alternate, many-flowered, at firft nearly up- 

 curvi, poftea reflexi, flofculis 10 ad 40, vio- 1 right, with the tip bent in, aftewards reflexed* 



laceis, confertis, breviffime pedicellatis. flowers from 10 to 40, of a violet colour' 



I crouded together, and {landing on very fhort 



I foot-ftalks 



CALYX: Perianthium monophyllum, tubulatum, % CALYX : a Perianthium of one leaf, tubular, co- 

 coloratum, quinquedentatum, dentibus tribusf loured, having five teeth, the three lower'moft 



inferioribus longioribus, pilofis, medio pro- J longer than the upper ones, the middle one 



du&iore, duobus fuperioribus minimis, fig. 2. | fartheft extended, the two upper ones very 



¥ minute, fig. 2. 



COROLLA: Vexillum emarginatum, reflexum, vio -| COROLLA: Standard emarginate, reflexed, of a 

 laceum, venis faturatioribus obfolete ftriatum. | violet colour, faintly ftriped with veins of a 



Alje conniventes. _ Carina albida, ad apicem | deeper colour. Wings clofing. Keel whitifh, 



macula faturate violacea, utrinque notatum, | marked on each fide at the tip with a deeply 



fig* l - I violet-coloured fpot, fig. 1. 



STAMINA: Filament a 10, fimplex et novemfidum,| STAMINA: ten Filaments, nine united, one fingle 

 alba. Anthers parvus, luteae. | white. Anthers fmall ana" yellow. 



GERMEN oblongum, compreffum, glabrum. Stylus | GERMEN oblong, compreffed, fmooth. Style nearly 

 fuberedus, undique pilofus. Stjgma obtu- $ upright, hairy all round. Stigma blunt 



fum, fig. 3. I fi g . 3 . 



PERICARP1UM: Legumen femunciale, pallide fuf- J SEED-VESSEL : a Pod about half an inch long, of a 

 cum, glabrum, utrinque compreiTum, fig. 4. ? pale brown colour, flattened on each fide,'/%\ 4. 



SEMINA quatuor vel quinque in fingulo legumine fub- 1 SEEDS four or five in each pod, nearly round and 

 rotunda, nigricantia, j%. 5. j blackiih, fig. 5. 



Linn^us, Haller, and Scopoli, afcribe to this phntfitpula* integra>. Indeed the two former found a part of 

 their fpecific character on this very circumftance ; but this character is certainly a very fallacious one, as the plant 

 is frequently found with us having flipul* dentata> % and fuch is the fpecimen we have figured. It has, however, 

 other characters by which it is obvioufly diftinguiihed. The raoft ftriking are drawn from the leaves and flowers: 

 the former are covered with a fine kind of filky down, which give* them a manifeff. whitenefs. This is moft 

 apparent in fuch fpecimen 3 as grow in dry, expofed filiations. The flowers are of a rich deep purple colour, grow 

 in long bunches or racemi, thickly crouded together, and are confpicuous at a diftance. 



It is a very common plant in the neighbourhood of London, and no where more plentiful than in Baterfea. 

 Meadows. When it has an opportunity of climbing up a hedge, it will grow to the height of five or fix feet ; and 

 it is then that its blofibms are difplayed to advantage. In the open paftures and fields, it is found much more 

 dwarfifh. 



It flowers from July to September. 



Gentlemen who wifh to decorate the hedges of their plantations cannot felect a more proper plant, as it is not 

 apt, like the great Bindweed, Travellers-joy, and other ftrong growing plants, to fuftocate the fhrubs which 

 fupport it. 



It is reeommended alfo, by fome authors, as affording excellent fodder for cattle» 



