442 ` Mr. Forster on the Vicia angustifolia 
purpureos, umbilico albo, ad singulas foliorum alas plerumque 
binos raró ternos, in solo steriliore singulos duntaxat; siliquas 
longas, teretiusculas, rectas, semina octo aut decem continentes, 
ex fusco- et luteo-viridi varia, non penitus nigra, prout ea de- - 
scribit J. Bauhinus. Variat ergo seminum colore." ‘The differ- 
ence from Vicia sativa is also pointed out in Ray's Historia Plan- - 
tarum. E 
Hudson, who it must be remembered includes Vicia angus- 
tifolia Roth, V. angustifolia Smith, and V. lathyroides Linn., 
remarks: * variat foliis imis obcordatis, retusis et obovatis, 
superioribus linearibus et lanceolatis, quaternis, senis, octonis, et 
subinde denis; floribus solitariis et geminis ; stipulis maculatis, 
nimis affinis Viciz sative. 
3. Vicr4 Bonanrir. 
V. leguminibus subsessilibus solitariis, foliolis linearibus; infe- 
rioribus obcordatis, stipulis dentatis notatis, seminibus glo- 
bosis leevibus. 
V. angustifolia. Sm. Eng. Fl. v. 8. 282. Spreng. Syst. v. 3. 264 
(excluding the reference to Roth). Sibth. Oz. 224 (exclu- 
ding the synonyms of Roth and Rivinus). 
. angustifolia 8 acuta. Pers. Syn. v. 2. 307. 
.lathyroides. Dicks. Hort. Sicc. fasc. 4. 12. 
. lathyroides 8. Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 1. 279. ed. 2. 319. 
. Sativa y. Sm. Fl. Brit. 770. . 
. sylvestris, flore ruberrimo, siliqua longà nigrà D. Bobart. 
Rai Syn. ed. 2. 188. ed. 3. 321. 
. folio angustiore, flore rubro. Dill. Giss. App. 47. 
. vulgaris, acutiore folio, semine parvo nigro. Bauh. Pin. 345. 
Habitat. On heaths and in pastures, on a gravelly or chalky soil. 
I apprehend the following remark of John Bauhin applies 
to this plant: * Huic" (V. angustifolia Roth) “ affinis, si non 
eadem, 
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