23. LEGUMINIFERZ. 499 
Trifolium agrarium, Linn. 
Provinces - 3-11-15. Sown with grass or clover seed. 
Casual. Eng. bot. iii.61. “This species has been seen lately 
in many parts of England in forage fields laid down with imported 
seeds”; New Flora of Northumberland and Durham. 
Ornithopus compressus, Linn. 
Province - 9. Cheshire; F. M. Webb, in E. C. report 1861. 
Casual. Ballast heaps by the Birkenhead Docks; New Flora of 
Liverpool, page 45. 
Scorpiurus subvillosus, Linn. 
Province - 8. Surrey; G. Lawson, in Phytol. iv. 461. 
Casual. Cyb. iii. 8385. Field near Wandsworth Rail Station. 
Coronilla varia, Linn. 
Provinces 1 2-4 -9- 12. 
Casual. Cyb. i. 331. Dr. Bromfield tried to force this plant into 
the lists of British natives, on very unsatisfactory evidence wordily 
set forth in the Magazine of Nat. Hist. ix. 604. Two extracts 
from letters written by the late W. L. Notcutt will help to shew 
the worthlessness of such hearsay evidence. ‘It was gathered last 
year, I am informed, plentifully wild about four miles from Faken- 
ham”; Letter of September 17,1849. Again, a fortnight later, 
“T went to Bagthorpe, the station for Coronilla varia, last week ; 
and though it looked wild at first, on inquiry I found that it had 
been planted there; the person who had planted it acknowledged 
this to me”; Same, October 1, 1849. Dr. Bromfield habitually 
tried to make out a case in support of nativity, much as though he 
were an advocate retained to support a side, nght or wrong. Mr. 
Notcutt endeavoured to find out the truth. It will be well for 
future botanists to know of such differences between those of our 
own time. I should myself have been spared much trouble, and 
been saved from several false conclusions, if earlier put on my guard 
with respect to the trusty or untrusty peculiarities of botanists who 
flourished before (say) 1800 or even 1825. 
Vicia villosa, Linn. 
Provinces - 5-10. Gloucester. North-east York. 
Casual. HE. C. reports for 1867 and 1868. 
Vicia varia, Host. 
Province - 10. North-east York, 1861; Mr. W. Foggitt. 
Casual. Botany of N. Y. p. 222. Same as the preceding ? 
Vicia (angustifolia) Bobartii, Forster. 
Provinces - 8-15. Essex. Middlesex. Oxford. Fife. Elsewhere. 
Syn. 298. Common and generally distributed in England, more 
rare in Scotland; Eng. bot. iii. 98. A small state of V. angusti- 
folia, not kept apart in my own notes of localities; nor, indeed, do 
1 know where to trace the line of severance between angustifolia 
