DESCRIPTIONS OF PLANTS 137 



greater than that with yellow flowers, having also adioining to the 

 flat stalkes, two eared sharpe pointed leaves, and also two other 

 slender sharpe pointed leaves, about foure inches long, growing on 

 a flat foot-stalke betweene them, an inch and a halfe long, and 

 one tendrel between them devided into two or three parts : the 

 flowers are large, and grow on long slender foure-square foot- 

 stalkes, from the bosomes of the leaves, on each footstalk one : 

 the upper great covering leafe being of a light blew, & the lower 

 smaller leaves of a deeper blew : which past there come up short 

 flat cods, with two filmes, edges, or skins on the upper side, like 

 those of Emilia Lobelij, containing within foure or five great flat 

 cornered Peason, bigger than field Peason, of a darke sand color. — 

 MS. f. 108 ; Gcr. emac. 1638. 



? Lens escidenta Moench. 

 Lathyrus aestivus eduHs Baeticus flore albo Boelii. [28 Julii 1621] 

 This is in flat skinny stalks, leaves, foot-stalks, and cods, with 

 two skins on the upper side, and in all things else like the said 

 Lathyrus with blew flowers ; only the flowers of this are milk 

 white : the fruit is also like. — MS. f 108 ; Ger. emac. 1628. 



} Lathyrus spJiaericiis Retz. 

 Lathyrus aestivus flore miniato. [28 Julii 1661] 



This is also in skinnie flat stalks and leaves like the said 

 Lathyris latiore folio ^ but far smaller, not three foot high: it hath 

 also small sharp pointed leaves growing by couples on the stalke, 

 between which grow two leaves, about three inches long, on a flat 

 foot-stalk half an inch long: also between those leaves grow the 

 tendrels : the flowers are of the color of red ledd, but not so bright, . 

 growing on smooth short foot-stalks, one on a foot-stalke : after 

 which follow cods very like those of the common field peason, but 

 lesser, an inch and a halfe long, containing foure, five, or sixe cornered 

 Peason, of a sand color, or darke obscure yealowe, as big as common 

 field peason, and of the same taste. — MS. f. 108 ; Ger. emac. 

 1638-9. 



Lathyrus pahistris L. 

 Lathyrus palustris Lusitanicus Boelii. [28 Julii 1631] 



Hath also flat skinnie stalks like the said Lathyrus latiore folio, 

 but the paire of leaves which grow on the stalke are exceeding 

 small as are those of Lathyrus flore luteo, and are indeed scarce 

 worthie to be called leaves : the other paire of leaves are about two 

 inches long, above halfe an inch broad, and grow from betweene 

 those small leaves, on flat foot-stalks, an inch long : betweene which 



