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3. Ii. sylvestris (narrow-leavedEverlastingPea.) In hedges, 

 thickets, and bushy, rocky places. Stems straggling and climb- 

 ing, from 2 to 5 or 6 feet long, broadly winged ; leafstalks with 

 1 pair of ensiform leaflets and ending in a tendril. Flower-stalks 

 long, many-flowered ; flowers greenish, streaked with purple veins. 

 Legumes 2 or 3 inches long, containing numerous flattened seeds. 

 Meadfoot Cliffs. Hope's Nose. Ansti's Cove. Maidencombe, 

 Berry Head, etc. (^E. B. t. 805.) P. vn.-ix. 



OROBUS. BITTEE YETCH. 



O. tuber osus (tuberous Bitter Vetch.} In thickets and 

 open woods, under hedges, etc. Boot forming small tubers j 

 stems suberect, from 6 inches to a foot long ; leaves with from 

 2 to 4 pairs of leaflets, without tendrils, oblong-lanceolate or 

 linear. Flowers reddish-purple, from 2 to 4, on slender flower- 

 stalks. Cliff walks near Hope's Nose. Ansti's Cove. (Lathyrus 

 macrorrhizus, Bab. and Benth.) (E. B. t. 1153.) The variety 0, 

 with linear leaflets (Orobus tenuifolius) y is found at Bovey Tracey. 

 P. vi. vii. 



. ROSACEJE. 



STTBOKD. I. AMYGDALE^E. 

 PRUNUS. PLUM OK CHEEEY. 



1. P. communis (common Plum.) Abundant in hedges, 

 thickets, and open woods. A much-branched spiny shrub, the 

 smaller branches ending in a sharp thorn ; leaves stalked, ovate 

 or oblong ; flowers small and white, appearing before the leaves. 

 P.spinosa, Linn. (E. B. t. 842.) Yar. ft. insititia : less spinous 

 branches, more downy leaves, and of taller growth. (E. B. t. 841.) 

 Yar. 7. domestica : branches without spines ; fruit larger and 

 sweeter. (E. B. t. 1783.) The two first grow abundantly about 

 the neighbourhood ; the last about Cockington. Walks near 

 Hope's Nose. Sh. IV. v. 



2. P. Avium (wild Cherry or Gean.) In woods and hedges. 

 A tree, from 20 to 30 or more feet high, gracefully branching ; 

 leaves drooping, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, toothed. Flow- 

 ers in clusters of 2 or 3, white, rising together from leafless buds. 

 Fruit roundish, somewhat heart-shaped, firm, either black or red. 

 The original of the common garden Cherry. Shiphay lanes. 

 Cockington lanes. Bradley woods. Berry Pomeroy woods. 

 Chudleigh, (P. Cerasus, Sm. in E. B. t. 706.) T. v. 



