108 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Extremely like L. sylvestris ; but the leaflets and stipules are 

 usually broader in proportion to their length, which is 2 to 4 inches. 

 The wings of the stem are not quite so broad, and those of the petiole 

 a little broader. The flowers are more numerous, in a more compact 

 raceme, and a little larger, being from f to 1 inch long, entirely 

 purplish-rose, with the keel paler. The pod is longer, 3 to 4 inches 

 in length, more cylindrical, more acuminated at the apex. The 

 seeds paler, with the tubercles more elevated, and all run together so 

 as to present a brain-like aspect ; the hilum is also considerably 

 shorter. The plant is also paler green, and more glaucous. 



Broad-leaved Everlasting Pea. 



French, Gesse d, larges Feuilles. Gennan, Breitblatterige Platierbse. 

 This pretty and favourite climbing plant is often seen covering the doorways of 

 cottages, the treUis-work of gardens, or creeping round the windows of some village 

 school-house, where its beautiful flowers are with difficulty kejjt from marauding fingers, 

 or its ripening pods from the omnivorous mouths that pass to and fro underneath its 

 hanging tendrils. Nothing can be prettier than this well-known plant. Its broad 

 leaves and juicy stems yield good fodder, and its cultivation has been recommended for 

 this purpose ; but it does not seem to be better adapted for field culture than any other 

 of its family. 



SPECIES VIIL— LATH YRUS PALUSTRIS. Linn. 



Plate CCCCIV. 



Eootstock extensively creeping. Stems climbing or trailing, 

 nearly simple, winged, with the wangs nearly as broad as the stem. 

 Leaves with 2 to 3 pairs of elliptical or linear-elliptical mucronate 

 leaflets ; common petiole terminating in a branched tendril. Stipules 

 lanceolate, very acute, half-sagittate at the base, with a triangular 

 auricle. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves, 2- to 8-flowered. 

 Flowers spreading, in a lax raceme. 3 lower calyx-teeth trian- 

 gular, nearly as long as the tube ; the upper pair deltoid, and much 

 shorter than the tube. Corolla nearly three times as long as the 

 calyx. Pods linear-oblong, compressed, glabrous. Seeds globular, 

 smooth ; hilum J circumference of the seed. 



In fens and boggy places. Very local. I possess it from Burtle 

 Moor, Somerset; Belton Fen, Yarmouth; Monks AVood, Hun- 

 tingdon ; and the Murrow of Wicklow. It is reported, on satis- 

 factory authority, also from the counties of Hants, Norfolk, 

 Carnarvon, Cambridge, Lincoln, and York. 



England, Scotland?, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stems slender, 2 to 4 feet high. Leaflets 1| to 2^ inches long, 

 varying in breadth. Stipules usually extending beyond the point 



