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where the first leaflets are placed. Peduncles 2 to 4 inches long. 

 Flowers | to J inch long, purple, fading to hlue. Standard with 

 the lamina oval-orbicular, spreading nearly at a right angle with 

 the claw, a little longer than the wings and keel. Style suddenly- 

 bent upwards at the extremity of the ovary, not twisted on its owa 

 axis. Pod shortly stipitate, 1^ to 1| inch long, rounded at the 

 apex helow, reticulated on the sides. The mature pods I have not 

 seen, hut the seeds have been sent me by the late Mr. Thomas Clark ; 

 they are | inch in. diameter, olive-yellow prettily marbled with black. 

 Plant glaucous-green, glabrous. 



Marsh VetchUng, Duckling Vetch. 



French, Gesse des Marais. (Jerman, Sump/ Platierbsa. 



SPECIES IX.— LATH YR US MARITIMUS. Bigd. 

 Plate CCCCV. 

 Pisum maritimum, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1046. 



Kootstock very long, woody, creeping. Stems prostrate, quad- 

 rangular, striate but not winged. Leaves with 3 to 5 pairs of 

 broadly oval or elliptical leaflets ; common petiole terminating in a 

 branched or simple short tendril. Stipules broadly ovate, acuminate, 

 hastate or hastate-sagittate at the base with the 2 auricles deltoid- 

 triangular and of unequal size. Pedunch!s axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves or more rarely equalling them, 4- to 10-flowered. Flowers 

 spreading, in a compact raceme. Three lower calyx-teeth trian- 

 gular, about as long as the tube ; the upper pair deltoid, acuminate, 

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

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

 smooth ; hilum one-third the circumference of the seed. 



Var. a, gemiiiius. 

 Leaflets broadly oval, rather blunt. 



Var. 3, acutifoUus. Bab. 



Leaflets elliptical, acute. Stems more slender than in var. a. 



On shingly sea-beaches. Rare. Var. a on the coasts of Dorset, 

 Sussex, Kent, Suffolk, and Lincolnshire ; and formerly near Pen- 

 zance, Cornwall, and in the Isle of Wight. Var. 3 in the Island of 

 Unst, Shetland, and possibly in Orkney. A form somewhat inter- 

 mediate between varieties a and 3 is found at Rosbegh, county 

 Kerry. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



