1006 LATUYRUS. | CLASS XVII. ORDER III. 
Habitat—Thickets and hedges; in the middle and south of 
England; Shore, near Whitehaven; North Wales; Scotland, Salis- 
bury Craigs, and coast of Angus-shire, and banks of White Adder, 
Berwickshire. 
Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 
6. L. latifo'lius, Linn. (Fig. 1172.) Broad-leaved Everlasting Pea. 
Peduncles many flowered, longer than the leaves; petioles winged, 
terminating in a branched tendril, and bearing a pair of ovate elliptic 
mucronated leaflets; stipules half arrow-shaped; legumes oblong, 
linear, smooth ; seeds rough, with elevated tubercles; stem winged. 
English Botany, t. 1108.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 277.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 269.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 85. 
Root branched and spreading. The whole plant smooth, of a 
somewhat glaucous hue. Stems angular, broadly winged, branched 
and spreading. Petioles broadly winged below, above terminating in 
a branched tendril, bearing a pair of ovate elliptical leaflets, three or 
five ribbed and veiny, terminating in a short bristle point, sometimes 
the leaflets are much narrower, lanceolate, or almost linear. Stipules 
narrow, half-arrow-shaped, entire, or sometimes toothed at the base. 
Inflorescence long angular axillary peduncles, terminating in a raceme 
of from four to eight large flowers, each having at the base of its 
peduncle an awl-shaped bractea. Calyx broadly bell-shaped, with 
short lanceolate teeth. Corolla rose coloured, the vexillum notched, 
and greenish at the back. Legume oblong, linear, compressed, 
smooth. Seeds globose, rough, with elevated tubercles. 
Habitat.—Plantations and woods; a doubtful native. Cambridge- 
shire; near Whitehaven, Cumberland; Worcestershire ; Bedford- 
shire; near Stapleton, Gloucestershire ; near Kirkcudbright, Scotland. 
Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 
The two last species are ornamental climbing plants, well suited for 
shrubberies, to ornament bushy places, or training up poles or trellis 
work. The broad-leaved Everlasting Pea is a great favourite with 
the rural cultivator, and few plants are more beautiful, seen as 
it commonly is in our rural villages carefully trained around the 
cottage doors, or blooming over the garden enclosure. Besides 
these, there are other species of Lathyrus, equally or perhaps more 
esteemed, as the L. odoratus, or Sweet Pea, a native of the South of 
Europe; and frequently mixed with this are the ZL. palustris, L. 
heterophyllus, and L. hirsutus. They are all elegant looking climbing 
plants; but the L. odoratus is the most delicate and esteemed. Of it 
the poet says— 
“ Here are sweet peas, on top toe for a flight, 
With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white.” 
7. L. palus'tris, Linn. (Fig. 1173.) Blue Marsh Vetchlirg. Pedun- 
cles many flowered, longer than the leaves; petioles rounded, bearing 
