1388 



ZATHYRUS* tingitanus. 



The Tangier Pea. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord, LEGUMiNoSiE Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, f. 86.) 



LATHY RUS.— Supra, vol. 14. fol. 1144. 



§ 2. Annul; pedunculis 1-3-floris. 

 ** Foliis unijugis. 



tingitanus ; glaberrimus, caulibus diffusis alatis, foliolis ovatis obtusis 

 mucronulatis, stlpulis semisagittato- ovatis petiolo multo brevioribus, 

 pedunculis bifloris folio longioribus, dentibus calycinis subaequalibus 

 tubo brevioribus, leguminibus oblongo-linearibus leviter reticulatis com- 

 pressis torulosis, suturis crassis, seminibus (subquadratis fusco-nebulosis). 

 — Decand. prodr. 2. 374. 



tingitanus. Linn. sp. pi. 1032. Desf. atl. 2. 160. Willd. sp. pi. 3. 

 1084. Curt. hot. mag. 100. 



tingitanus siliquis orobi, flora ample ruberrimo. — Moris hist. 2. p. 55. 



While we are every where ransacking nature for new 

 objects of cultivation, and searching in the most remote 

 corners of the globe for flowers and fruits to delight our 

 senses, we are too apt to neglect the old inhabitants of our 

 Gardens, which are at least as beautiful as the new comers. 

 How seldom we now see the Helleborus niger, the Rose of 

 Christmas ; in how little estimation are held the old varie- 

 ties of Crocus, Fritillaria, and Colchicum ; and even the 

 rich varieties of Tagetes are fast fading from remembrance. 

 This should not be so ; our Gardens are capacious enough, 

 and our tastes sufficiently varied, to render every really 

 handsome plant worth preservation : and when we see an 

 old discarded favourite make its appearance after a short 



* Nothing certain is known of the origin of this word. The >^dBv^oi of 

 Theophrastus appears to have been Lathyrus sativus. 



