Varieties.—
Summer Tare, or Vetch.
An agricultural variety, grown at the north of England and in Scotland. It is sown broadcast, and cultivated as wheat or barley. Both the haum and seed are used.
Winter Tare, or Vetch.
Extensively grown in England and Scotland; usually sown in autumn, mixed with rye, for early spring food for stock. The seeds are smaller than those of the summer variety.
Not sufficiently hardy to survive the winters of the Northern States.
WINGED PEA.
Red Birdsfoot Trefoil. Mill. Lotus tetragonolobus.
A hardy, creeping, or climbing, annual plant, fifteen or eighteen inches in height, or length; leaves trifoliate; flowers large, solitary, bright-scarlet; pods three inches and a half long, with four longitudinal, leafy membranes, or wings; seeds globular, slightly compressed, yellowish-white.