PL ex. cal. 377. Vicia. 63. LEGUMINOS^E. 61S 
Cracca minor. Raii Syn. 322, l. 
Vicia sylvestris, seu Cracca minima, Ger.em. 1228,5, 
Aracus, seu Cracca minor, Park. 1070. 
Ervum hirsutum, Lin. S. P . 1039. 
Small wild tare . Tine tare . 
Pastures; annual; June. 
Stem nearly bald ; flowers purplish white. 
c. Vicia. Flowers axillary , sessile , purple; legumen dry; 
hilum of the seed lateral; annual . 
5. Vicia saliva . Cultivated vetch. 
Legumen sessile, generally in pairs, upright; lower leaves 
retuse ; leaflets ovate, truncated, pointed ; stipules toothed, 
nearly arrowshape, spotted ; seeds smooth. 
Vicia, Raii Syn. 320, 1 ; Ger. em. 1227, 1. 
Vicia sativa, Lin. S. P. 1037. 
Fetches. Tares. 
Dry fields, also cultivated ; annual ; April to June. 
Leaves many-paired ; tendrils 2 or 3-cut ; flowers solitary, 
or in pairs, purple ; legumen rough ; seeds slightly com- 
pressed. — Herb used green or dried for fodder; seeds given 
to pigeons. 
0. nigra. Leaflets reverse heartshape, rather wedgeshape ; 
seeds black. 
Vicia vulgaris sativa, Park. 1072. 
y. alia. Leaflets of some leaves roundish, of others 
long, slender ; seeds white. 
Vicia albo semine, Raii Hist. PI. 
S'. linearifolia. Leaflets linear. 
Vicia sylvestris, sive Cracca major, Raii Syn. 321,4; Ger.em. 1227,4. 
Aracus sive Cracca major, Park. 1071. 
Vicia sativa /3, Smith FI. Brit. 770. 
Vicia lathyroides a, Hudson FI. Angl. 318. 
Strangle tare. Tine vetch. 
e. angustifolia. Lower leaflets reverse-heartshape, mucro- 
nate ; upper leaflets strapshape ; flowers large, blood-red ; 
legumen long, black. 
Vicia sylvestris flore ruberrimo,siliqua rubra nigerrima,jRaMSj/n.32I ,5. 
Vicia angustifolia, Sibthorp FI. Ox. 224. 
6. Vicia lathyroides. Vetchling vetch. 
Legumen sessile, solitary, bald, upright; lower leaves 
2-paired, retuse ; upper leaves 4? to 6-paired ; stipules not 
dotted ; seeds cubical, tuberculated. 
