NARROW-LEAVED EVERLASTING 

 PEA. — Latliyrus syhestris. 



Class DiADELPHiA. Order Decandeia. Nat. Orel. Leguminos.e 

 Pea and Bean Tribe. 



This pretty wild pea is not a very common 

 flower, though often found in woods and 

 thickets in the middle and south of England. 

 The specimen from which the drawing for the 

 engraver w^as made, was gathered at Higham, 

 near Rochester, in Kent; and a good deal of 

 the plant grows in the w^oods and lanes around 

 the venerable ruins of Lymne Castle, near 

 Hythe, a spot so interesting to the antiquary, 

 from its Roman remains. It creeps among 

 the bushes too on Salisbury Crags, and on the 

 coast of Angusshire. The flowxrs are usually 

 about four or five together, and the stem climbs 

 to the height of four or five feet, clinging to 

 any object near it. The blossoms are of 

 greenish pink and purple, the stem is broad 

 and expanded, and each leafstaU^ bears two 

 leaflets and a tendril. It blossoms in July 

 and August, resembling somewhat the Ever- 

 lasting Pea [Latliyrus latifolius) of our gardens, 

 though far inferior to it in size and beauty 

 of colour. This Broad-leaved Pea is often 



