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is not to be received as a true locality for a showy species 

 not elsewhere found iu the same neighbourhood. The lo- 

 cality indicated for this plant, in Don's account of the 

 botany of Forfarshire, should be confirmed, before we can 

 carry the area so far northward. It is curious that Mr. 

 Don should give the " Red Head Promontory " for this 

 plant, while Dr. Macnab gives it for Vicia tetrasperma ; 

 neither of these botanists, apparently, having noticed both 

 of these plants there : could one have been mistaken for 

 the other of them, by either botanist ? In the New Guide, 

 the locality of "Bennan Head, in the Isle of Arran," is re- 

 corded for Lathyrus sylvestris, on the authority of the 

 British Flora ; but I do not find such a locality given in 

 the two last editions of that Flora. Perhaps the county 

 census of 40 may be rather too high, though that of 30 

 might be as much too low. 



Lathyrus latifolius, Linn. 



Area (1 2 3 4 5 * 7 * ^ [10 * 12] 13 14 15). 



Alien. Being a plant which seeds well, and retains hold 

 of the ground by creeping suckers, this species has become 

 established to some degree in quarries and neglected spots. 

 Besides these naturalized habitats, there are probably 

 several which are totally erroneous, through the mistaking 

 of L. sylvestris for the present species ; as is known to 

 have been the case with the plants found near Whitehaven 

 and Scarborough, which belonged to L. sylvestris. Some, 

 if not all, of the localities near Bristol and Bath also be- 

 long to the latter. 



