DIADELPHIA.— DECANDRIA. Lathyrus. 273 



O. sylvaticus nostras. Raii St/n. 324. 



Vicia cassubiea. FL Dan. t. 98 ; but not of Linnceus. 



/3, with simple leaves. Sm. Tour to Hafod. 1 6. 



In mountainous woods and thickets. 



At Gamblesby, Cumberland, about 6 miles from Penrith in the 

 way to Newcastle, plentifully. Ray. In several parts of Wales, 

 and the lowlands of Scotland. Also in Ireland, according to 

 Dr. Wade. 



Perennial. Maij, June. 



Root creeping, woody, tough, deeply fixed in the ground. Stems 

 numerous, spreading or recumbent, 1 to 2 feet long, somewhat 

 branched, leafy, angular, more or less hairy, but in this respect 

 the whole plant varies greatly. Leaves of numerous pairs of 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute leaflets, whose common footstalk is 

 somewhat elongated, but not so as to form a tendril. Stipulas 

 half-arrow-shaped, single-toothed. Clusters of numevouf^fl owers, 

 about as long as the leaves. Cal. more hairy than the stalks. 

 Pet. cream-coloured, streaked and tipped with purple. Legume 

 ovate -oblong, smooth, compressed, much shorter than usual in 

 this genus, and very differently shaped. Seeds few, from 1 to o, 

 dark brown, smooth, almost globular, with a long linear scar, 

 but no crest. 



/3 is a truly wonderful variety, found by Mr. Todd, gardener to 

 the late Mr. Jolnies, on a hill near Hafod, ('ardiganshire, bear- 

 ing nothing but large, ovate, simple leaves, five times the size 

 of the usual leaflets, but like them in texture, veins, &c. Sti- 

 pulas rather smaller than usual. Rabbits are extremely fond 

 of this variety, which, when tr;insplanted into the garden, grow 

 luxuriantly, increasing greatly by the roots, but could by no ma- 

 nagemenl'be made to blossom. The stems are much more slender 

 than in the common state of the plant. 



359. LATHYRUS. Wtcliling, and Eveihisting. 

 pea. 



Dun. (it'u. 37."). Juss.W't^. ri. lir. 70y>. Tourn. t. 'JlC.'^i;. Lam. 

 t. (i;V2. (icvrtn.t. IJ2. 



C.'lymenum. 7'o;/ ///./. 218. 



Aphara. T<nini. I. 22?> 



Cal. ciiji-sliapcd, imc(jiial : lul, al)()ut hall' way down, iiiti) 

 5 lanceolate, acute se«rnients : the '2 uppermost sliortot ; 

 lower one loni^est. Cor. ol" 5 petals : standard lar«rcst, 

 inversely heart-sliaped, reflexed at the sides; winijs ()1k 

 long, obtuse, soniewiial curvet! upwards, conver«rin<i^ ; 

 keel rounded, rather tumid, of 2 combined petals, with 

 separate claws. Filam. 10; 9 united into a com})re.s.sed 

 tube, open at the upper edge; the tenth capillary, quite 



