278 DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Lathyrus. 



Jn Madingley and other woods near Cambridge. Kay. Martyn. 

 On the rocks by Red Neese, near Whitehaven, Cumberland ; 

 Mr. Lawson. Ray. In Severn Stoke copse, Worcestershire j 

 Mr. Ballard. With. At Hawnes and Bromham, Bedfordshire. 

 Abbot. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root much branched, but not spreading vv^idely. Herb like the 

 last, but larger in all its parts, quite smooth, of a rather glau- 

 cous hue. Leaflets broadly elliptical, bluntish, with a small 

 point, 3- or 5-ribbed, copiously reticulated with veins. Tendrils 

 generally in 5 branches. Stipulas ovate in their upper part, and 

 broader than the winged stem. Fl. 5 — 10, large and handsome ) 

 all their petals of a fine rose-colour. Lower teeth of the calyx 

 elongated. Legume long, compressed, rather narrow. 



Haller speaks of this common garden plant as having, in his lime, 

 just began to attract the notice of agriculturists. Prof. Martyn 

 recommends it for experiment, but I know not that he has been 



" attended to. It thrives in any common soil, and the crop is very 

 abundant. Bees obtain much honey from the flowers. 



Most of the old figures represent the leaflets as more narrow than 

 we usually find them. 



I cannot but think Garidel's t.]OS represents a narrow-leaved 

 variety of L. latifolius, which often occurs in gardens, notwith- 

 standing a contrary opinion expressed by my able correspondent 

 Dr. Bertoloni, Amcen. Jtul. 17.3; and that the above-mentioned 

 author, though none of the most learned, is correct in the 

 name, 



7. L. palustris. Blue Marsh Vetchling. 



Stalks many-flowered. Tendrils branched, each bearing 

 several elliptic-lanceolate leaflets. Stipulas lanceolate. 



L, palustris. Linn. Sp. PL 1034. IVilld. v. 3. 1090. Ft. Br. 767. 



Engl.Bot.v.S.t. 169. FL Dan. t. 399. 

 L. n. 431. HatLHist.v.l. 187. 



L. viciEfiformis, seu Vicia lathyroides nostras. Rail Syn. 320. 

 L. palustris, flore orobi nemorensis verni. Rupp. Jen. ed. 1 . 367./. 

 Vicia lathyroides nostras, &c. Pluk. Almag. 387. Phyt. t. 7 1 ./. 2. 

 Clymenum parisiense, flore cseruleo. Tourn. Inst. 396. t. 218. 



In boggy meadows and thickets. 



In Peckham fields ; T. Willisel. Ray. Near Abingdon, Berks. 



Blackstone. In Leicestershire. Dr. Pulfeney. In some parts 



of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Huds. Near Ranaugh, Norfolk. 



Mr. Humphrey. At Burgh, near Yarmouth. Mr. D. Turner. 

 Perennial. July, August. 

 Herb very smooth, somewhat glaucous, 3 or 4 feet high. Stem 



winged, but little branched. . Tendrils usually in 2 or 3 divi- 



