DIADELPHIA— DECANDRIA. Lathyrus. 277 



5. L. sylvestris. Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea. 



Stalks many-flowered. Tendrils branched, each bearing 

 a pair of sword-shaped leaflets. Stem winged. 



L. sylvestris. Linn. Sp. PL 1 033. mild. v. 3. 1 089. Fl. Br. 765. 



Engl. Bot.v. 12. t. 805. Curt. Lond.Jasc. 6. t.b2. Hook. Scot. 



213. Clus. Hist. V. 2. 229./. Dod. Pempt. 523./. Dalech. Hist. 



471./. 

 L. n.434. Hall. Hist. V. 1. 188. 

 L. sylvaticus. Riv. Tetrap. Irr.t. 39. 

 L. angustifolius alter. Moris, ij. 2. 5 1 . sect. 2. t. 2./. 4. 

 Lathyri majoris species, flore rubente et albido minore, dumeto- 



rum. Rati Sijn.3\9. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 302./. 

 Pisum graecorum, Trag. Hist. 613./. 

 Ervum sativum^ rather sylvestre. Fucks. Hist. 572. f. 

 E.sylvestre. Fuchs.Ic. 329./ 



In groves, thickets, and moist hedges. 



Between Castle Campes and Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. Dale. In 

 a copse under Shotover hill, Oxfordshire. Sibth. Common in 

 Bedfordshire. Abbot. In several parts of Kent. Curt. On the 

 south side of Brundle church, Norfolk, near a spring. Mr. Hum- 

 phrey. Between Bath and Bristol abundantly, and near Con- 

 way. Huds. In all the hedges of the low country bordering the 

 river Severn, between King's Weston and the New Passage. It 

 is rare in Scotland. 



Perennial. July, August. 



i?oo<5 creeping. Herb smooth, climbing to the height of 5 or 6 feet. 

 Stem branched, broadly winged. Tendrils in 3 or more divisions ; 

 with a pair of lanceolate, or sword-shaped, lea/lets, 3 inches 

 long, 3-ribbed, veiny, various in breadth 3 and a narrow-wing- 

 ed/ootstalk. Stipules very narrow. Fl. from 3 to 7 or 8 to- 

 gether, on long axillary stalks, with an awl-shaped bractea to 

 each flower. Cal. widely bell-shaped, with rather short teeth. 

 Cor. variegated with pale crimson, violet, and tints of green, 

 elegant though not splendid. Legumes long, compressed, tawny, 

 reticulated with copious veins. 



Most of the German authors represent but 2 /lowers on each stalk. 

 In England they are usually from 4 to 8. 



G. L. lat'ifolius. Broad-leaved Everlasting-pea. 



Stalks many-flowered. Tendrils branched, each bearing a 

 pair of elliptical leaflets. Stem winged. 



L. hitifolius. Linn. Sp. PL 1033. IViltd. v. 3. 1089. FL Br. 706. 



Engl. Bot.v. \6. t. 1 lOS. Mart. Rust. t.S. Mill. Illustr. t. 62. 



Hook. .Sco/. 214. (iarid. Pmv. 271. /. 108. Moris, v. 2. 5\ . 



sect. 2. /. 2./. 3. 

 L. n. 133. Hall, lltst. v. 1. IS.S. 



