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LEGUMINIFER2®. 107 
The most northern stations, in which it is certainly wild, are on 
the cliffs of the south shore of the Isle of Mull; and near the Red 
Head, Forfarshire. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stems much branched, rather stout, broadly winged, 3 to 6 feet 
long. Leaflets 2 to 6 inches long, variable in breadth, 3- or 5-nerved. 
Stipules rather small, shorter than the petiole. Peduncles 13 to 10 
inches long, terminated by a lax unilateral raceme. Flowers 3 to 
#inch long; standard with the lamina sub-orbicular, slightly emar- 
ginate, longer than the wings and keel, rose-coloured within, rose 
stained with green on the outside; wings purplish towards the 
apex; keel greenish-white. Style curved upwards, twisted on its 
own axis. Pods sessile, 1} to 3 inches long, with the upper margin 
convex at the base, and the lower one convex at the apex. Seeds 
numerous, ¢ inch in diameter, rough, with irregular tubercular 
ridges projecting little above the surface. Plant deep-green, 
slightly glaucous, glabrous. 
Narrow-leaved Everlasting Pea. 
French, Gesse Sauvage, Pois Eternel. German, Wald Platterbse. 
SPECIES VIL—LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS. Linn. 
Prats CCCCIIL. 
Rootsock shortly creeping, without tubers. Stem climbing or 
trailing, with wings as broad as or narrower than itself. Leaves 
with 1 pair of oval-elliptical or elliptical leaflets; common petiole 
with a wing broader than itself, terminating in a much-branched 
tendril. Stipules lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, half-sagittate at the 
base, with a slender acute auricle. Peduncles longer than the leaves, 
5- to 10-flowered. Flowers spreading, in a rather compact raceme. 
3 lower calyx-teeth triangular, about as long as the tube; the 
upper pair a little broader and shorter. Corolla more than twice 
as long as the calyx. Pods linear-cylindrical, slightly compressed, 
glabrous. Seeds globular, greyish, with the tubercles contiguous ; 
hilum linear, one-fourth the circumference of the seed. 
In woods and on rocky débris. Rare, and no doubt in all its 
stations escaped from cultivation. In many of the localities 
recorded for it, a broad-leaved form of L. sylvestris has probably 
been mistaken for it. I have myself only seen it on Salisbury 
Craigs, Edinburgh. 
[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Summer. 
