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peas are not so good for eating as the worst sorts now cultivated in 

 England ; it is a low trailing plant, the leaves have two lobes on 

 each foot-stalk ; those below are spear-shaped, and sharply indented 

 on their edges, but the upper leaves are small and arrow-pointed. 

 The flowers are blue, each foot- stalk sustaining four or five flowers ; 

 the pods are taper, near three inches long, and the seeds are round, 

 about the size of tares." He says it is " commonly called Cape 

 Horn Pea," and Alton adds the name "Lord Anson's Pea" : these, 

 owing to the confusion between the two plants, are sometimes 

 assigned in books to L. magellanicus Lam. D. Don in the descrip- 

 tion accompanying the plate in Sweet's British Flower Garden 

 (2nd Series, iv. 344 (1836) ) rightly identifies the plant figured with 

 Miller's Pisum americanum, which he follows Aiton in regarding as 

 L. miKjeJlanicus/' This figure is no doubt responsible for the con- 

 fusion which at present exists in gardening books, as well as in seed 

 and plant catalogues, in which, according to the Kev. C. WoUey 

 Dod (Gard. Chron. Aug. 18, 1900, p. 135), ''Lord Anson's Pea" 

 is often offered, but the species sent for it is L. timiitanm, or more 

 frequently L. satlvus. According to a previous article by the same 

 writer {op. cit. 114) the true plant was not known in cultivation 

 between the time of Miller and that of Sweet ; after 1836 it was 

 again lost sight of, until re-introduced (it is not stated whence) 

 by Mr. A. BuUey, in whose garden in the Wirral of Cheshire Mr. 

 Dod saw it flowering in July, 1899. The actual locality where 

 the plant was found, according to Mr. Dod, who has consulted the 

 histories of Anson's voyage, was Port St. Julian. 



The synonymy of the plant, so far as I have traced it, is as 

 follows : — 



L. NERvosus Lam. Diet. ii. 7U8 (1786). 



Pisum americanum Mill. Diet. ed. 8, no. 5 ! (1768). 



L. magellanicus Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 309 (1812) excl. descr. 



non Lam. ; D. Don in Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. 2 Ser. iv. 



t. 344 (1836) ; Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, ii. 14 (quoad syn.) 



(1841); Hook. f. Fl. Autarct. 259 (quoad syn.) (1847); 



Nicholson, Diet. Gardening, ii. 237 ; Jackson, Ind. Kew. ii. 



38 (ex parte). 

 L. Armitageanus West, ex Sweet, I.e. ; Knowles & Westc. Fl. 



Cab. iii. t. 81 (1839). See p. 97. 

 L. triqonus Vogel in Linnasa, xiii. 31 (1839), fide Hook. Bot. 



Mag. t. 3987 (1842). 

 L. elegans Vogel, I.e. p. 30, fide Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. i. 115 



(1859). 



"L. Messerschmidii Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. i. 106 " 

 = Viciaunijuga. 



" Lathyrus Parisiensis Mill. Diet. ed. viii. no. 4." This name, 

 which appears among the " species non satis notse" of DeCandolle's 



* Don refers to "native specimens collected at Port Desire, in the Straits 

 of Magellan, by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solauder," but the specimens from 

 that locality in Herb. Banks seem to have been collected by Captain King, and 

 there is no reference to the species in the MS. lists of Banks and Solander. 



