OROBUS. 



with noble golden flowers an inch across, twice as long as in O. luteus, 

 and three times as long as in O. aureus, and eagerly to be desired. 



0. hirsutus is softly hairy all over, weak-stemrned, with violet 

 flowers in one-sided sprays. 



0. Jordani comes prettily into early summer, with stems of nearly 

 a foot, set with leaves made of oval-pointed leaflets in three or four 

 pairs, and carrying rich-blue peas in loose and scanty clusters. 

 (Lucania.) 



0. lathyroeides is also called Vicia unijuga by those that love variety. 

 It likes shade, and its stems are nearly 2 feet long, and the deep-blue 

 flowers, though not specially large, are specially numerous on the stems 

 that are thrown out in June and July. See also Vicia, loc. cit. It 

 is remarkably splendid in effect. 



0. luteus may be separated from 0. aurantiacus by the paler tone of 

 its yellow blossoms ; leaning rather more closely — as does the whole 

 plant — to 0. aureus. 



O. niger has the attraction of being a renowned rarity in one or 

 two Scotch alpine glens. It is otherwise not especially distinct in 

 charm from the quite common and most beautiful 0. vermis (Lath, 

 macrorrhizus) that is everywhere to be seen in spring, and by no means 

 to be despised for cool corners of the garden — particularly in its pink 

 form and its very rare white form, in its yet lovelier rose-and-white 

 form, and the double blushing pearly one. 



0. pannonicus is also 0. albus. It forms a thick tuft, sending up 

 in spring a number of elegant 15-inch stems displaying a profusion of 

 white or cream-white flowers, large and well shown on the mass. If 

 possible, its variety 0. p. varius, with the standards flesh-pink and the 

 wings and keel in tones of soft creamy yellow, is even more beautiful ; 

 and both are of the easiest culture and the highest value to leave 

 alone in any open place, where they will form a clump and stay quiet, 

 living and letting live successfully without intrusions. 



0. rotundifolius is a fine climbing pea, in reality Lathyrus rotundi- 

 folius, q.v. (Lathyrus has tendrils and climbs.) 



O. sericeus is close to 0. hirsutus, but the leaves are longer and 

 narrower, and the hairs are ironed close instead of standing up 

 in fluff. 



O. sessilifolius is a beautiful graceful thing from the mountain 

 copses of Servia, Attica, and the Argolid, with the leaves almost 

 sessile, and the sprays of large violet blossom standing far above 

 them. 



0. Smithii is a puzzle without a name, that has nothing to do with 

 the 0. pannonicus of which it is often sent out as a variety. This 



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