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There nre several varielies; as the purple-flowered, the Avhite- 

 flowered, tlie variegated or painted lady, sweet-scented, and the 

 scarlet. 



The second species has the stem four or five feet high: the leaf- 

 lets veined: tlie peduncles short, sustaining two large flowers with 

 purple standarils, the wings and keel bright red: the legumes long, 

 jointed, containing several seeds, 



Martyn observes, that the whole plant is very smooth: the stem 

 branched, lunning out on each side into a slender sharp wing: the 

 petioles angular, ending in bifid, trifid, or simple tendrils: the stipules 

 lanceolate, acuminate, produced downwards into an earlet, similar 

 but much smaller: the peduncles sometimes one-flowered. It is a 

 native of Barbary, flowering in June and July; and although it has 

 not the agreeable scent, or variety of colours, or continuance in blow 

 of the Sweet Pea, it is usually sown in gardens with other annual 

 seeds. 



The third has a perennial root: the stalks several, thick, climbing 

 by means of tendrils to the height of six or eight feet, or even higher 

 in woods: these die to the ground in autumn, and new ones rise in 

 the spiing from the same root: the leaves stifl', marked with three or 

 five strong ribs, rolled in at the edge, blunt at the end, but termina- 

 ting in a little point or bristle; they are always in pairs, and on a 

 winged petiole; at the base of this are large stipules, shaped some- 

 what like the head of a halbert: the tendrils multitid or branched : 

 the peduncles eight or nine inches long. Each flower has an awl- 

 shaped bracte at the base of the pedicel: the corolla pale purplish 

 rose-colour: the legumes an inch and half long, and lialf an inch in 

 breadth. It is a native of many parts of Europe, flowering at the 

 end of June and beginning of July. 



It is a showy plant for slirubberies, wilderness quarters, arbours, 

 and trellis-work; but too large and rampant for borders of the com- 

 mon flower-garden. 



There are many varieties; as the red-flowered, the purple- 

 flowered, the scarlet-flowered, and the large-flowered. 



Culture. — These plants may be readily raised, by sowing the seeds 



