of the English Flora of Sir J. E. Smith. AST ` 
sylvestris, flore ruberrimo, siliqua longa nigra; but it may be 
doubted whether Sibthorp distinguished the two plants ; for his 
specific character, as well as his reference to Roth and Rivinus, 
belong to one, and the synonyms of Ray and Hudson to the 
other. We still, however, unfortunately find the Vicia sylvestris, 
sive Cracca major remaining in the English Flora as a variety of 
V. sativa. ' | 
Having continued to pay attention to this subject ever since 
the separation of the true Linnean V. lathyroides from that of 
Hudson, I have remained steady in my opinion, that the V. sa- 
tiva B. of Linnzus and Smith is specifically distinct from the 
cultivated Vetch, though I allow their great affinity. . 
Having an opportunity of examining the truly invaluable her- 
barium now deposited in the Museum of this Society, I conceive 
with Professor Hooker, that it must be satisfactory to the British 
botanist to know what is the Vicia angustifolia of the English 
Flora, and therefore I have been induced to make these obser- 
vations and to submit the following arrangement, though in so 
doing I stand opposed to Linnzus, Smith, and Hooker; yet I 
feel confident, supported as I am by the accurate Ray, the labo- 
‘rious Hudson, together with Roth, and a host of authors ancient 
and modern: indeed, I have in some measure the sanction of 
my friend Borrer, who, by presenting the Vicia, n. 2614. of 
English Botany to be figured as V. angustifolia, clearly takes it 
away from V. sativa, though he was not aware that it is not the 
V. angustifolia of the English Flora, but the V. sativa 8. of that 
work, and the V. angustifolia of Roth and Willdenow. 
It being an invariable maxim with me never to swerve from 
the good practice of keeping the trivial name of the first author | 
who established the species, since the reformation of the bota- 
nical nomenclature by Linnzus, I am reluctantly obliged to 
adopt that of angustifolia from Roth, and therefore to give some 
other 
