438 Mr. FoiisTER on the Vicia angustifolia 



other to the V. angustifolia of Smith*. I do not call it nigra, 

 though so designated by Linnaeus as a variety, because he in- 

 cluded two plants of the old botanists under his jS. 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. 



1. Vicia sativa. 



V. leguminibus subsessilibus binatis erectiusculis, foliolis ellip- 



tico-oblongis ; inferioribus retusis, stipulis dentatis notatis, 



seminibus globosis laevibus. 

 V. sativa. Linn. Sp. PL 1037- Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. i. 278. ed. 2. 



318. Sm. Fl. Brit. 769- Engl. Bot. v. 5. t. 334. Engl. Fl. 



V. 3. 281. Willd. V. 3. 1 104. Hook. Fl. Scot. 215. Fers. Syn. 



V. 3. 307. DeCand. Prod. v. 2. 360. 

 Vicia. R. Si/n. ed. 1. 129- ed. 2. 188. ed. 3. 320. Hist. v. 1. 900. 



Dod. Frum. 134. Pempt. 530, Riv. Tetrap. Irr. f. 54. 



Ger. 1052. f. 1. Ger. Em. 1227. /. 1. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 75. 



Cajuer. Epit. 320. Trag. Hist. 624. Li/te Herb. 483. 

 V. vulgaris sativa. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 310. Park. 1072. 

 V. vulgaris, seraino nigro. Bauh. Pin. 344. 

 V. major sativa vulgaris. Mor. Ox. v. 2. 62. sect. 2. t. 4<.f. 12. 

 /3. " 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 



* I 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 



