438 Mr. Forster on the Vicia angustifolia 
other to the V. angustifolia of Smith *. Ido not call it nigra, ` 
though so designated by Linnzus as a variety, because he in- 
cluded two plants of the old botanists under his 8. nigra; and 
as the rule has never been considered absolute when the name 
- was only that of a variety, I conceive it right to follow Roth, who 
has taken a much older, and certainly a much better name, 
though perhaps it is one which is still more applicable to the 
species to which it is given by Smith. 
1l. VICIA SATIVA. 
V. leguminibus subsessilibus binatis erectiusculis, foliolis ellip- 
tico-oblongis ; inferioribus retusis, stipulis dentatis notatis, 
seminibus, globosis lzevibus. 
V. sativa. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1037. Huds. FI. Angl. ed. 1. 278. ed. 9. 
318. Sm. Fl. Brit. 769. Engl. Bot. v. 5. t. 384. Engl. Fl. 
v.3.281. Willd.v.3. 1104. Hook. Fl. Scot. 215. Pers. Syn. 
v.9.307. DeCand. Prod. v. 2. 360. 
Vicia. R. Syn. ed. 1.199. ed. 2. 188. ed. 3.390. Hist. v. 1. 900. 
Dod. Frum. 134. Pempt. 530. Riv. Tetrap. Irr. f. 54. 
Ger. 1052. f. 1. Ger. Em. 1227. f. 1... Lob. Ic. v. 2. 75. 
Camer. Epit. 390. Trag. Hist. 624. Lyte Herb. 483. 
V. vulgaris sativa. Bauh. Hist. v. 9. 310. Park. 1072. 
V. vulgaris, semino nigro. Bauh. Pin. 344. 
V. major sativa vulgaris. Mor. Oa. v. 2. 62. sect. 9. t. 4. f. 12. 
B. ** V. sativa vulgaris semine albo. Bauh. Pin. 344.” Huds. 
Anglis Vetch or Tare. 
Habitat. On the margins of cultivated fields, self-sown, but 
not a.native. 
It does not appear that this is a native of Europe. In the 
* l am sorry to observe some botanists of the present day totally regardless of this 
act of justice, adopting without scruple and without reason, the name given by any 
modern author who happens to be in fashion. 
Smithian 
