442 Mr. FoRSTER on the Vicia angustifolia 



purpureos, umbilico albo, ad singulas foliorum alas plerumque 

 binos rar6 ternos, in solo steriliore singulos duntaxat ; siliquas 

 longas, teretlusculas, rectas, semina octo aut decern continentes, 

 ex fusco- et luteo-viridi vaiia, non penitus nigra, prout ea de- 

 scribit J. Bauhinus. Variat ergo seminura colore." The differ- 

 ence from Vicia sativa is also pointed out in Ray's Historic Plan- 

 tarum. 



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 Viciee sativae. 



3. Vicia Bobartii. 



V. legurainibus subsessilibus solitariis, foliolis linearibus ; infe- 

 rioribus obcordatis, stipulis dentatis notatis, seminibus glo- 

 bosis laevibus. 



V. angustifolia. Sm. Eng. FL v. 3. 282. Spreng. Syst. v. 3. 264 

 (excluding the reference to Roth). Sibth. Ox. 224 (exclu- 

 ding the synonyms of Roth and Rivinus). 



V. angustifolia /3 acuta. Pers. Syn. v. 2. 307- 



V. lathyroides. Dicks. Hort. Sicc.fasc. 4. 12. 



V. lathyroides /8. Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 1. 279- ed. 2. 319- 



V. sativa y. Sm. Fl. Brit. 770. 



V. sylvestris, flore ruberrimo, siliqua longa nigr4 D. Bobart. 

 Raii Syn. ed. 2. 188. ed. 3. 321. 



V. folio angustiore, flore rubro. Dill. Giss. App. 47. 



V. 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, 



