LATHYRUS I57 



luxuriant, and the leaves are much broader than usual ; probably var. 

 intermedius, Lamotte, Fl. du Plateau, 224. I have not seen a type 

 specimen of L. plahjphyllus, Retz, Prod. Fl. Scand. ed. 2, 170, the var, 

 latifolius, Peterm. Fl. Lips. 545, which this broad-leaved plant may 

 possibly prove to be. It is a variety, or as Nyman considers, a sub- 

 species, of L. sylvestris, found in several continental localities, and is 

 figured in Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xxii. t. 2263. 



L. sylvestris is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



[Ii. pALusTRis, Linn. Sp. PI. 733 (1753). Marsh Chickling Vetch. 



Top. Bot. 125. Syme, E. B. iii. 108, t. 404. Nyman, 202. 



Error? Lathyrus Viciaeformis, seu Vicia Lathyroides nostras, Bay, Syn. 320. 



In a wood near Abingdon, Berks, Mr. Hawkins, Blackstone, Spec. Bot. 44, 

 1746. This record is repeated under L. palustris in Mavor's Agr. Rep. of 

 Berks., 1809. 



In Thorn Croft and Horse Croft, Blewbury, and in many other moist 

 meadows, Lousley in RusselVs Cat. 1839. Woods in Berkshire, Dickson's 

 Hortus Siccus. 



The locaUty given by Blackstone is not an nnlikely one, but no other 

 botanist has been able to find the plant in Berkshire since. There may have 

 been an error in the identification of the plant by Blackstone or its finder, 

 or Abingdon, Berks, may have been confounded hy Blackstone with Abington 

 near Cambridge. 



The localities given by Mr. Lousley are evidently erroneous ; L. pratensis 

 was probably intended. Mr. Dickson's specimens in the Hortus Siccus are 

 not to be trusted. The specimens in the British Museum or the Linnean 

 Herbaria do not look as if they were wild-grown plants. 



L. palustris occurs in one locality in Hampshire. The statement in Top. 

 Bot. 'Berks, Britten, v. sp.' is, I believe, a mistake.] 



[I«. HiRSUTus, Linn. Sp. PI. 732 (1753). Syme, E. B. iii. 103, t. 399. Nyman, 203. 

 Is recorded for Surrey.] 



[L. MARiTiMcs, Bigelow, Fl. Boston, ed. 3, 286. Syme, E. B. hi. 109, t. 405. 

 Nyman, 202. 

 Pisum maritimum, Linn. Sp. PI. 727 (1753). Between Aldburgh and Oxford, 

 Linnaeus in Flora Lapponica. This is a misprint for Orford in Suffolk, 

 from which place there is a specimen in Herb. Du Bois at Oxford. It is 

 a maritime species, formerly found in the Isle of Wight, but probably 

 extinct.] 



Zi. montanus, Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erf. 247 (1800) (not of Gren. and 

 Godr.\ Wood Pea. Heath peaseling, Mavor. 



L. macrorrhizus, Wimm. Fl. Schles. 166 (1844). Orohus tuherosus, Linn. 



Sp. Ph 728 (1753). 

 Top. Bot. 126. Syme, E. B. iii. no, t. 406. Baxt. t. 433. Nyman, 



205. Fl. Oxf. 87. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Open woods, coppices, bushy heaths, &c. Very 



rare in the north of the county, but locally common in the woods 



of the south. P. April-July. 

 First record. Orohus tuherosus, and a variety with linear leaves, which 



is found in Windsor Forest, but as far as I know, not mentioned 



