LEGUMINIFER^. 107 



Tlic most northern stations, in which it is certainly wild, arc on 

 the cliffs of the south shore of the Isle of Mull ; and near the Red 

 Head, Forfarshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stems much hranched, rather stout, broadly winged, 3 to 6 feet 

 long. Leaflets 2 to (5 inches long, variable in bi'cadth, 3- or 5-nerved. 

 Stipules rather small, shorter than the petiole. Peduncles 1} to 10 

 inches long, terminated by a lax unilateral raceme. Plowers f to 

 f inch long; standard with the lamina sub-orbieular, slightly emar- 

 ginate, longer than the wings and keel, rose-coloured within, rose 

 stained with green on the outside; wings purplish towards the 

 apex ; keel greenish-white. Style curved upwards, twisted on its 

 own axis. Pods sessile, 1^ to 3 inches long, with the iipper margin 

 convex at the base, and the lower one convex at the apex. Seeds 

 numerous, ^ inch in diameter, rough, with irregular tubercular 

 ridges projecting little above the surface. Plant deep-green, 

 slightly glaucous, glabrous. 



Narrow-leaved Everlasting "Pea. 



French, Gesse Sauvage, Pois Elernel. German, Wald Platterbse. 



SPECIES VII.— LATH YRUS LATIPOLIUS. Linn. 

 Plate CCCCIII. 



Rootsock shortly creeping, without tubers. Stem climbing or 

 trailing, with wings as broad as or narrower than itself. Leaves 

 with 1 pair of oval-elliptical or elliptical leaflets ; common petiole 

 with a wing broader than itself, terminating in a much-branched 

 tendril. Stipules lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, half-sagittate at the 

 base, with a slender acute auricle. Peduncles longer than the leaves, 

 5- to 10-flowered. Flowers spreading, in a rather compact raceme. 

 3 lower calyx-teeth triangular, about as long as the tube ; the 

 upper pair a little broader and shorter. Corolla more than twice 

 as long as the calyx. Pods linear-cylindrical, slightly compressed, 

 glabrous. Seeds globular, greyish, with the tubercles contiguous ; 

 hilum linear, one-fourth the circumference of the seed. 



In woods and on rocky debris. Hare, and no doubt in all its 

 stations escaped from cultivation. In many of the localities 

 recorded for it, a broad-leaved form of L. sylvestris has probably 

 been mistaken for it. I have myself only seen it on Salisbury 

 Craigs, Edinburgh. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Summer. 



