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GENUS VI. 
TINE TARE. 
C R A C C J. 
THE llower i. papilionaceous, and compofcd of four petals. The vexillum is of an oval form, 
and has a long hollowed bottom. The alas are ftrait, of an oblong form, a little heart-fa- 
Ihioned, and fViorter than the veiiillum. The carina is flatted, and half round, and is fmaller than, 
the alfc. The pods are placed on very long and Oendcr footftallis ; and there always grow a num- 
ber of the flowers and pods together, and they hang downwards. 
Linnfeus places this among the tliaddpbia dscandria ; 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 cfl:abliQ)ed name cracca from this genus ; and refers it to the vicia or Imr. 
The flowers of thcfe plants refemble one another ; but we have here fhewn fufficient diftinftion for a 
cenerical charaftcr ; and it is extremely needful to feparate thefe and the tares, the Ipecies under each 
of thofe genera being numerous, and their difl;inaions Ids obvious than in many other kinds. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I, Small Tine Tare. 
Cracca minor fiViqtiis flurthts hirfutis. 
The root is fmall, and hung with numerous 
irrt-fiular fibres. 
The ftalks are numerouSi weak, and of a pale 
grt-en : they are not much branched, and they are 
Iiardiy a foot: hig!i. 
The leaves ;ire regularly pinnated : each is 
coinnofed of five or fix pairs of pinnx, which arc 
fliort, broad, Hiarp-pointed, and of a faint green. 
At the end of the rib in each leaf there grows a 
fmall tendril. 
The flowers t;row four, five, or more together, 
upon long and fiender footftalks, which rife from 
the bofoms ol the leaves : they are fmall, and of 
a mixed blue and white colour. 
The pods are broad and lliort : they are of a 
pale green, fomewhat hairy, and, when tho- 
roughly ripe, whitiOi : the feeds are fmall and 
iound. 
It is very common in corn-fields, and under 
hedges. It iiowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Vida fegctum cum Jiliquis pin- 
rhnis hirfutis. 
2. Smooth-podded Tine Tare. 
Cvticca Jl'i^uis ohlongis ghihris. 
The root is final!, cblong, divided into two 
or three parts, tind furnifhed with feverai fibres. 
The fialks are numerous, weak, branched, a 
foot high, and of a pale green. 
The leaves are fmall and pinnated, and they 
have long tendrils : each is compofed of four or 
five pairs of oblong pinnje, with the tendril at the 
end. 
The flowers grow on long, fiender footfialks, 
two or three on each ; and they are ot a pale 
blue and white colour, and fmall. 
The pods are Ihort and Imooch, 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. Bauhine calls it Vicia fe^ettm fdifjiils Jingw 
laribus glahris. But in this he has named it ill : 
the pods are fewer than in the preceding fpecies, 
but they feldom fl:and fingly : two or three to- 
gether is the moft natural manner of growth. 
3. Tufted Tine Tare. 
Cracca mtiltifiora fpicata. 
The root is compofed of numerous fmall fibres. 
The fialk is round, weak, of a pale greenj 
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 eigiit pairs of 
pinnas ; 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, fiender pedicles : but they have 
a drooping pofition. 
The pods are long and fiender, and the feeds 
arc fmall and round. 
It is common in hedges, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine call it Vida muliiflora. Others, 
Arncus^ and Cracca. We call ic Tufted vetches -j 
but it is not ftridly of the vetch kind. 
4. Great tufted Tine Tare. 
Cracca imliijlora fpicata maxima'. 
The root is long, fiender, and furnifhed with 
numerous fibres. 
The ftalk is round, and of a pale whitifh green, 
much thicker than in the others of this kind, 
but not of fircngth to fupport itfelf : ic climbs 
among buflies, and grows to Ave feet high. 
The leaves are very beautiful : they arc pin- 
nated in a regular and elegant manner, and each 
has twelve or more pairs of pinnae : thefe are of 
an oval form, obcufe at the end, of a faint green, 
and not divided at all at the edges. A tendril 
terminates the rib inllead of an odd pinna ; and 
there generally are fiioots for young branches all 
the way up the plant in their bofoms. 
The flowers fliand in long fpikes, and are very- 
beautiful : they are of a pale blue, fl:reaked with 
a very deep blue in flrong lines. 
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