413 ADDITIONAL NOTES, ETC. 



but the species is enumerated in the Floras of Moray and 

 Manchester, the authorities for those provinces, avowedly 

 as an introduced plant only. 



■396. Vicia sylvatica, vol. i. p. 315. 



The south limit is to be extended to Cornwall, on au- 

 thority of Mr. J. Ward, quoted by Mr. Pascoe in Bot. Gaz. 

 ii. 315. As Mr. Pascoe repeatedly quotes that gentle- 

 man's name in his list, for Cornish plants not seen by 

 himself, we must presume that he considers Mr. Ward's 

 testimony to be competent in a botanical sense ; and with 

 one or two exceptions (Stellaria nemorum, for example) 

 the species thus witnessed are those that might have been 

 expected to occur in Cornwall, on inference from their 

 known distribution in other counties. Perhaps " Mr. J. 

 Ward " is a botanist resident in the county, and enjoying 

 more ample opportunity for local investigations, than falls 

 to the lot of temporary visitors there. I have seen spe- 

 cimens of Vicia sepium, sent from Surrey to the Botanical 

 Society of London, labelled by the name of V. sylvatica ; 

 probably a false inference suggested by the place of growth 

 being in " a wood near Keigate." 



303. Vicia bithyniea, vol. i. p. 330. 



The south limit extends to Cornwall, on authority of 

 Mr. J. Carne, quoted by Mr. Pascoe as above mentioned. 

 The county of Hants was erroneously reported for this 

 species in the British Flora, as we are informed by Dr. 

 Bromfield in Phytologist, iii. p. 343. The province of 

 Tjaie (11) is indicated in the line of area within enclosure, 

 because the plant is recorded on the Sunderland ballast 

 hiUs ; but whether still existent or now extinct there, I 

 am unable to say in this as in many other similar in- 

 stances. The plants observed on ballast must often be 

 uncertain and temporary. 



