436 Mr. Forster on the Vicia angustifolia 
It.was ascertained by the examination of the herbarium, that 
the Vicia lathyroides of Hudson was not the plant intended by 
Linnz;us, which in the first edition of the Flora Anglica, pub- 
lished in 1762, is referred to Ervum soloniense, and in the second 
edition of 1778 is placed as a variety of Vicia lathyroides : this - 
was not improperly referred to Ervum soloniense, for it seems 
that Vicia lathyroides and Ervum soloniense are the same plant, 
(vide English Flora, vol. 3. p. 283.) Hudson's error consisted in 
calling the Vicia sylvestris, sive Cracca major of Ray, Vicia lathy- 
-roides, and in his second edition placing the Vicia minima of 
Rivinus, the true Linnean V. lathyroides, as a variety. This 
being the case, Smith in his Flora Britannica and in English . 
. Botany published the Vicia minima of Rivinus, Vicia minima 
precox Parisiensium of Dillenius in Ray's Synopsis, as the V. la- - 
 thyroides of Linnzus. So far he did well: but finding that Lin- 
nsus in his Species Plantarum had placed the Vicia semine ro- 
tundo nigro of Bauhin's Pinar, which is the Vicia sylvestris, sive 
— Cracca major of Ray, together with Vicia folio angustiore, flore 
rubro of Dillenius, as one variety of V. sativa, accompanied with 
an observation, ** Varietas 8. foliis angustioribus sublinearibus ;^ 
and also finding that the first of these is in the herbarium pinned 
to the sativa, marked H. U. (Hortus Upsaliensis), he followed 
his great master in continuing both these plants as varieties of 
that species. Subsequently, however, he was induced by the 
observations of the late Thomas Furly Forster **to re-examine 
the matter;" and accordingly in the English Flora he has adopted 
the Vicia sylvestris, flore ruberrimo, siliqua longa nigra of Ray, 
or the Vicia folio angustiore, flore rubro of Dillenius, as a species, 
under the name of Vicia angustifolia, stating it to be the V. an- 
gustifolia of Sibthorp, but not of Roth, or Willdenow, or Rivi- 
nus; to this he was led by a specimen in his own herbarium, 
received from Sibthorp, which specimen evidently is the Vicia 
sylvestris, 
