THE 

 TUBEEOUS PEA. 



Orobits tuberoaus. Nat. Ord., 

 Leguminosce, 



E have already given several 

 illustrations of what the old 

 writers call " peasou and his 

 kindes," and the present 

 species, though lacking the 

 delicate beauty of the wood 

 vetch, the rich purple clusters 

 of the tufted vetch, or the 

 graceful habit of the meadow 

 vetchling all plants we have 

 already figured has a quiet 

 attractiveness of its own that, 

 joined to its abundance, gives 

 it full right to a place in our 

 series. In Wales our plant rejoices in a somewhat long 

 name, and is known as the " pysen y coed gnapwreid- 

 diawg." As we are acquainted with some half a dozen Welsh 

 words only, we may, perhaps, be excused if we make the 

 most of our knowledge, and hasten to explain that " coed " 

 means a wood ; this we learnt from a native of picturesque 

 Bettws y coed : a name that, we are told, signifies the village 

 in the wood. We may next make a happy guess, and 

 assume that " pysen/' of the Welsh, means much the same 

 thing as peason did in England in the Elizabethan era, 

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