NARROW-LEAVED 

 EVERLASTING PEA 



Lathyrus sylvestris. Nat. Ord., 

 Lcgwriinostt. 



HILE the narrow-leaved ever- 

 lasting pea is not a familiar 

 wild flower in the way that 

 dandelions or buttercups 

 are a thing that we may 

 meet with here, there, and 

 everywhere it is, like the 

 wood vetch, Vicia sylvatica, 

 which we have already 

 figured, a plant that may be 

 found in fair profusion if one 

 only goes to the right place. 

 Curtis, we see, in his " Flora 

 Londinensis " speaks of it as 

 growing in the Oak of Honor 

 Wood, at Peckham, and as 

 being abundant in many parts of Kent in the hedges by 

 the roadside. Curtis, of course, only gives localities 

 within easy reach of the metropolis. Though found in 

 the hedgerows occasionally, it is more especially at home in 

 thickets and rocky places. We remember to have been much 

 struck with its appearance in some of the wilder parts of 

 the Undercliff, in the Isle of Wight ; and it was in just 

 such another locality that we found the piece from which our 

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