102 FLORA HISTORICA. 



EVERLASTING-PEA. Lathji/ms Latifolius. 



This handsome native plant, having no place in 

 the Dictionary of Floral Language, we presume to 

 place it there as the emblem of lasting pleasure, 

 since we find it a perennial whose beautiful clus- 

 ters of flowers are renewed every year to give 

 pleasure to the admirers of Flora's gifts. 



Gerard calls it the " Tare Everlasting," and 

 " Pease Everlasting and Chickling." In the pre- 

 sent day, when so few spots are left uncultivated 

 in this country, and those few so frequently de" 

 prived of their singular productions, that many 

 indigenous plants are seldom met with except 

 under cultivation in the garden, we are induced to 

 make frequent extracts from the old writers who 

 have particularized the spots on which they for- 

 merly grew, and of these authors none have been 

 so faithful as Gerard, who is better entitled to the 

 name of the English Pliny than any author from 

 his time to the present day. This vegetable his- 

 torian says, speaking of the Everlasting-Pea, 

 " This plant doth grow in shadowie woods, and 

 among bushes ; there groweth great store thereof 

 in Swanescombe-woode, a mile and a halfe from 

 Green-hithe, in Kent, as you go to a village 



