of the British Flora of Sir J. E. Smith. 443 
eadem, angustissimis foliis ac tenuissimis, longiusculis, flore 
pulchro, purpureo, à me reperta, cum essem Monspelii, inter 
saxa." : 
So also Ray: ** An eadem precedentis speciei ? Varietatis 
secunde." r 
I have arranged this as a species in deference to the great 
authority of Smith rather than from my own judgement, being, 
. with John Bauhin and Ray, inclined to doubt whether it be 
right to do so. As the name of angustifolia is already applied, 
I have called it Bobartii, in honour of Bobart, whose name Ray 
has taken, and who was probably the discoverer of it in Oxford- 
shire *. 
Whether it be considered as a species, or only a variety of 
V. angustifolia, I hope the Editors of the Supplement to English 
Botany will give a figure of it in a future number, the V. sativa 
and V. angustifolia being now well represented in that work. 
- 4. VICIA LATHYROIDES. 
Of this species I have nothing to remark, except that V: icia la- 
thyroides purpureo-ceruleis floribus, Herm. Parad. 242. 1. 242. 
Raii Hist. v. 3448. ought to be added to the synonyms, and not 
referred to V. angustifolia. Hermann, whose figure and descrip- 
tion are excellent, received it from Scotland, sent to him by 
Sutherland. Ray inserts it in his Historia Plantarum, v. 3. copy- 
ing the description from the Paradisus. 
I cannot close these remarks without expressing my regret, 
that in the English Flora the synonym of Ray, V. luteo flore syl- 
vestris is removed from Vicia lutea to Vicia hybrida. Having, 
with many other botanists, gathered V. lutea on Glastonbury 
* As the elder Bobart, the first supervisor of the Oxford Garden, died in 1679, and 
this plant is not mentioned in the first edition of Ray's Synopsis, it was probably his 
son and successor in the care of the garden whose name Ray has adopted. 
Tor-hill, 
