cum,p. 152.—but they refer to Roth’s V. angustifolia, which
the author of English Flora says is not our plant.
We have ourselves frequently gathered, both in England
and in Scotland, a Vetch perfectly according with the present
figure, and with Smith’s description, often having every
flower solitary; but which has always appeared to us to
be a starved state of V. sativa: and we cannot help expressing
it as our opinion, that it would be better, as Smith
himself has done in English Botany, and in Flora Britan-
nica, to consider it as a state of V. sativa. From V. lathy-
roides, our plant may be known by the discoloured spots on
the stipules, and the dotted, not smooth, seeds.—W. J. H.
