444 Mr. FoRSTER on the Vicia angustifoUa, ^c. 



Tor-hill, it seems probable that it was this species which Ray 

 intended, though we have the evidence of a specimen in the 

 Smithian herbarium, marked "from Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, 

 A. B. Lambert, Esq.", thatVicia hybrida has also been discovered 

 there. V. Icevigata is likewise well authenticated by specimens 

 from the same gentleman, found near Weymouth. I have never 

 seen the latter growing ; but from the specimens in the above- 

 mentioned herbarium it appears to me that V. lutea, V. hy- 

 brida, and F. Icevigata agree in general habit, differing only 

 in the vexillum and legumen, both of which in V. hybrida are 

 hairy, and in V. laevigata smooth, whereas in V. lutea the vex- 

 illum is smooth and the legumen hairy. The V. Icevigata ap- 

 pears to be unknown to foreigners, though discovered in this 

 country many years since, and mistaken by Hudson for V. hy- 

 brida. There are native specimens in the Banksian herbarium, 

 from Portland Island, gathered by Lightfoot in 1774. 



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