DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Pisiim. 269 



applications, may, on an emergency, staunch the blood of a 

 rustic wound, and give nature and a good constitution time to 

 perfect a cure. The herbage is said to afford good pasturage 

 for sheep. 



357. PISUM. Pea. 



Linn.Gen.S7A. /«ss. 360. Fl.Br.760. Tourn. t. 215. Lam. 

 t. 633. Gcertn. t. 152. 



Cal. cup-shaped, unequal ; the margin in 5 acute segments, 

 permanent ; 2 uppermost widest, and most distant. Cor. 

 of 5 petals ; standard broadest, inversely heart-shaped, 

 reflexed, notched, with a pair of protuberances at the 

 inner side near the bottom, its claw vaulted ; wings obo- 

 vate, converging above, shorter than the standard, with 

 wavy linear claws; keel semilunar, compi'essed, of 2 ob- 

 long, cohering, folded petals, smaller than the wings, and 

 with narrower straight claws. Filcnn. 10; 9 united, for 

 more than half their length, into one compressed keeled 

 tube, open along its upper edge, which is closed by the 

 tenth, separate, flattish, awl-shaped filament. Anth. 

 small, roundish. Germ, oblong, compressed. Style as- 

 cending, triangular, membranous at the edges. Stigma 

 longitudinal, downy, united to the acute upper edge of 

 the style. Legume large, oblong, compressed, somewhat 

 tumid, pointed, of 1 cell and 2 concave valves. Seeds 

 several, globular. 



Smooth herbs, with mostly annual, sometimes perennial and 

 creeping, roots. Stems prostrate ; or climbing by the 

 terminal tendrils of their pinnate leaves. Stipulas large, 

 toothed. Fl. in axillary stalked clusters, purple or blue- 

 ish, or yellow. Seeds generally eatable, 



1 . P. 7nariti?num. Sea Pea. 



Footstalks flattish on the upper side. Stem angular. Sti- 

 pulas arrow-shaped. Stalks many-flowered. 



P. maritimum. Linn. Sp. PL 1027. Willd.v.3. 1071. Fl. Br. 760. 



Engl. Sot. V. 15. t. 1046. Spicil. 8.t.9. Hook. Lond. t. 5. Fl. 



Dan. t. 338. 

 P. marinum. Raii Syn. 319. 

 P. spontaneum perenne repens humile. Moris, v. 2.47. sect. 2. t. 1 . 



/.5. 

 Pisa sponte nascentia. Caii Opusc. lib. 2. 29. 2. 

 On the stony sea shore, in several parts of the east and south of 



England. 



