of the British Flora of Sir J. E. Smith. 443 



eadem, angustissimis foliis ac tenuissimis, longiusculis, flore 

 pulchro, purpureo, k me reperta, cum essem Monspelii, inter 

 saxa." 



So also Ray : " An eadem praecedentis speciei ? Varietatis 

 secundae." 



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 onl}?^ 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 Vicia la- 

 thyroides purpureo-cceruleis foribus, Herm. Farad. 242. /. 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, 



