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XXII. Observations on the Vicia angustifolia of the English Flora 
of Sir James Edward Smith, P. L. S. By Edward Forsgfér, Esq., 
F.R.S. V.P.L. S. 
Read December 15, 1829. 
ExcovnAcrp by the readiness always shown by our late re- 
vered President to listen to any suggestions made by me, though 
they were contrary to his own preconceived opinions, I venture 
to offer to the Linnean Society some remarks on the Vicia an- : 
gustifolia of the English Flora, to which I have been led by 
perceiving a Vicia lately figured under that name in the Supple- 
ment to English Botany, for the continuation of which useful 
work the public are greatly indebted to the sons of the able 
coadjutor of Sir James Edward. Smith. I trust the eminent 
botanists who have furnished and described the Viċia, n. 2614. 
of that publication, will receive the freedom of my statements 
with the same candour with which they would have been met by - 
my late friend. 
When, fortunately for the botany of Great Britain, the her- 
barium of Linnzus came into the possession of our founder, he 
very soon perceived that some few plants had been erroneously 
referred to the Species Plantarum.of Linnzeus, by Hudson in his 
Flora Anglica,—a book which is less consulted by authors of the : 
present time than it ought to be,—for it is certainly a work of 
great merit, and it may fairly excite wonder that more mis- 
application of the Linnzan nomenclature does not occur in it. 
It 
