MEADOW VETCIILING.— Zr/%;7/.s 

 pratensis. 



CYas5 DiADELPHiA. 0;-c?er Decandria. Nat. Ord. LEavm- 

 Nos^.— Pea and Bean Tribe. 



During July and August this plant is very 

 frequent in moist meadows, sometimes ren- 

 dering the grassy bank of the stream quite 

 bright with its yellow flowers. It grows 

 also, wdth scarcely less luxuriance, on stiff clay 

 lands. The blossoms are in loose clusters, 

 about six or eight together, and the climbing 

 stem is often two or three feet long, and by its 

 clasping tendrils clings to some stronger object 

 near it. Cattle are said to be very fondof this 

 plant, and the author of Essays relating to 

 Agriculture and Rural Affairs, recommends its 

 cultivation on various accounts. He remarks, 

 that it annually yields a great amount of forage 

 of the ver}' best quality, fit for pasture or hay. 

 It is also an abiding plant, never leaving the 

 ground where it has once been established, 

 and increasing so rapidly by its running roots, 

 that a very few plants at first put into a field 

 would soon spread over the whole, and stuck 

 it sufficiently. 



We have eight British species of Lathyrus, 



