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where the first leaflets are placed. Peduncles 2 to 4 inches long. 
Flowers = to 2 inch long, purple, fading to blue. Standard with 
the lamina oval-orbicular, spreading nearly at a right angle with 
the claw, a little longer than the wings and keel. Style suddenly 
bent upwards at the extremity of the ovary, not twisted on its own 
axis. Pod shortly stipitate, 14 to 1} inch long, rounded at the 
apex below, reticulated on the sides. ‘The mature pods I have not 
seen, but the seeds have been sent me by the late Mr. Thomas Clark ; 
they are }inch in diameter, olive-yellow prettily marbled with black. 
Plant glaucous-green, glabrous. 
Marsh Vetchling, Duckling Vetch. 
French, Gesse des Marais. German, Sumpf Platterbse. 
SPECIES IX—LATHYRUS MARITIMUS. Bigel. 
Pirate CCCCV. 
Pisum maritimum, Zinn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1046. 
Rootstock very long, woody, creeping. Stems prostrate, quad- 
rangular, striate but not winged. Leaves with 3 to 5 pairs of 
broadly oval or elliptical leaflets; common petiole terminating in a 
branched or simple short tendril. Stipules broadly ovate, acuminate, 
hastate or hastate-sagittate at the base with the 2 auricles deltoid- 
triangular and of unequal size. Peduncles axillary, shorter than the 
leaves or more rarely equalling them, 4- to 10-flowered. Flowers 
spreading, in a compact raceme. Three lower calyx-teeth trian- 
cular, about as long as the tube; the upper pair deltoid, acuminate, 
much shorter than the tube. Corolla three times as long as the 
calyx. Pods linear-oblong, scarcely compressed. Seeds globular, 
smooth; hilum one-third the circumference of the seed. 
Var. a, genuinus. 
Leaflets broadly oval, rather blunt. 
Var. 8, acutifolius. Bab. 
Leaflets elliptical, acute. Stems more slender than in var. «. 
On shingly sea-beaches. Rare. Var. a on the coasts of Dorset, 
Sussex, Kent, Suffolk, and Lincolnshire; and formerly near Pen- 
zance, Cornwall, and in the Isle of Wight. Var. 6 in the Island of 
Unst, Shetland, and possibly in Orkney. A form somewhat inter- 
mediate between varieties « and / is found at Rosbegh, county 
Kerry. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
