108 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Extremely like L. sylvestris; but the leaflets and stipules are 
usually broader in proportion to their length, which is 2 to 4 inches. 
The wings of the stem are not quite so broad, and those of the petiole 
a little broader. The flowers are more numerous, in a more compact 
raceme, and a little larger, being from % to 1 inch long, entirely 
purplish-rose, with the keel paler. The pod is longer, 3 to 4 inches 
in length, more cylindrical, more acuminated at the apex. The 
seeds paler, with the tubercles more elevated, and all run together so 
as to present a brain-like aspect; the hilum is also considerably 
shorter. The plant is also paler green, and more glaucous. 
Broad-leaved Everlasting Pea. 
French, Gesse & larges Feuilles. German, Lreitblitterige Platterbse. 
This pretty and favourite climbing plant is often seen covering the doorways of 
cottages, the trellis-work of gardens, or creeping round the windows of some village 
school-house, where its beautiful flowers are with difficulty kept from marauding fingers, 
or its ripening pods from the omnivorous mouths that pass to and fro underneath its 
hanging tendrils. Nothing can be prettier than this well-known plant. Its broad 
leaves and juicy stems yield good fodder, and its cultivation has been recommended for 
this purpose ; but it does not seem to be better adapted for field culture than any other 
of its family. 
SPECIES VIII—-LATHYRUS PALUSTRIS. Linz. 
Puate CCCCIV. 
Rootstock extensively creeping. Stems climbing or trailing, 
nearly simple, winged, with the wings nearly as broad as the stem. 
Leaves with 2 to 3 pairs of elliptical or linear-elliptical mucronate 
leaflets ; common petiole terminating in a branched tendril. Stipules 
lanceolate, very acute, half-sagittate at the base, with a triangular 
auricle. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves, 2- to 8-flowered. 
Flowers spreading, in a lax raceme. 38 lower calyx-teeth trian- 
eular, nearly as long as the tube; the upper pair deltoid, and much 
shorter than the tube. Corolla nearly three times as long as the 
calyx. Pods linear-oblong, compressed, glabrous. Seeds globular, 
smooth; hilum +} circumference of the seed. | 
In fens and boggy places. Very local. I possess it from Burtle 
Moor, Somerset; Belton Fen, Yarmouth; Monks Wood, Hun- 
tingdon; and the Murrow of Wicklow. It is reported, on satis- 
factory authority, also from the counties of Hants, Norfolk, 
Carnarvon, Cambridge, Lincoln, and York. 
England, Scotland?, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 
‘ and Autumn. 
Stems slender, 2 to 4 feet high. Leaflets 14 to 23 inches long, 
varying in breadth. Stipules usually extending beyond the point 
