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Latuyrus Tuserosus.. TuBerous LaTHy- 
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Clafs and Order. 
DriapELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Generic Charaéder. 
- Stylus planus, fupra villofus, fuperne latior, Cal, lacinia 
{uperiores 2 breviores. ° 
Specific Charafter and Synonyms. 
LATHYRUS fuberofus pedunculis multifloris, cirrhis diphyl- 
lis: foliolis ovalibus, internodiis nudis. Lia, 
= Sy/t. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 663. 
LATHYRUS arvenfis repens tuberofus. Baub. Pin. 344- 
LATHYRUS arvenflis five terra glandes, Peafe Earth-Nuts- 
Parkinf. Theat. p. 1061. 
ssiammuiiened 
Grows fpontaneoufly in various parts of France and Ger- 
many; Mr. Purrie Hurtocx lately fhewed me fome dried — 
fpecimens of this plant, which he gathered in the corn fields, 
on the Luneburgh Heide, in Upper Lufatia, where it grew 
plentifully, and afforded a pleafing appearance to the curious 
- traveller :—not fo to the hufbandman, to whom it is as nOXI- — 
ous as the Convolvulus arvenjfis (/mall Bindweed) is with us, and 
equally difficult to extirpate, having powerfully creeping — 
roots, which fomewhat like the Helianthus tuberofus (commonly — 
called Ferufalem Artichoke) produce large tubera, and which — 
hike thofe of that plant, are in high efteem with fome as 4 
article of food, and as fuch even cultivated abroad. 
It flowers from June to the end of Auguft. It is certainly 
a beautiful hardy perennial, fimilar to (but of more humble — 
growth) than the everlafting pea, yet muft be cautioufly intro- — 
duced on account of its creeping roots, by which it is mott : 
readily propagated, rarely ripening its feeds with us. | 
It is, perhaps, better fuited to decorate the unclip’d hedge 
of the pleafure-ground, than the border of the flower-garden- 
