Lathyrua.] legdminosa;. 133 



called, in gardens. Tn a wild spot by Core cottage, Ventnor, Rev. 6. E. Smith, 

 who sent me specimens in 1839, but from which both flowers and pods had fallen 

 away ; some doubt thereforp attaches to the specific identity of the plant, which I 

 confess is one I do not properly understand, and am inclined to consider it a 

 variety of the preceding. 



3. L. maritimm, Big. Sea-side Everlasting Pea. " Peduncles 

 many-flowered shorter than the leaves, tendrils with 3 — 4 pairs of 

 oval leaflets, stipules as large as the leaflets unequally cordato- 

 hastate with the angles acute, stem angled without wings." — Br. 

 Fl. p. 113. Pisum, L. : E. B. t. 1046. 



On the pebbly sea-beach ; very rare, and now, I fear, quite extinct in the 

 island. Fl. July, August. 1^.. 



E. Mid. — Sandown beach, I. W., Pulteney in Bot. Guide, and Miss Lucas. 



" On the sands near Lord Seymour's (Norris Castle), near Cowes," Marryatt, 



Esq., in Baxter's Gen. of Flowering Pis., and in litt. 



I have hitherto failed in finding this plant, but my friend Miss Lucas has spe- 

 cimens gathered by her at the Sandown station some years ago ; it was then 

 rather plentiful, but has probably been overwhelmed by some subsequent landslip, 

 or washed away by the encroaching waves, — casualties to which botanical rarities 

 are but too liable on all parts of our island coasts.* 



4. L. hirsutus, L. Rough -podded Vetchling. "Peduncles 

 2-flowered, each tendrU with a pair of linear-lanceolate leaflets, 

 legumes hairy, seeds tubercular, stem and petiole winged." — Br. 

 Fl. p. 113. E. B. t. 1355. 



In cultivated fields ; very rare. i^?. June, July. ? ©. 



A single specimen in the herbarium of Miss Lovell, who picked it in a field 

 near Brighstone, but could not succeed in finding a second. Perhaps introduced 

 accidentally ! 



** Peduncles 1- OT 2-fiowered. Petioles leafless, either forming tendrils or dilated 

 into a leaf-like expansion of its substance (phyllodium), and without tendrils. 

 Root annual. 



5. L. Nissolia, L. Crimson Vetchling. Grass Vetch. " Leaf- 

 lets wanting but in place of them a simple Hnear-lanceolate sessile 

 leaf-like petiole without tendrils, stipules minute subulate." — Br. 

 Fl. p. 113. E. B. t. 113. 



In grassy thickets and bushy places, along the banks and borders of fields, on 

 lay and fallow ground ; by no means rare, but very uncertain in its time and 

 places of appearing. Fl, May — July, and sometimes in September. Fr. August. 

 0. 



E. Med. — Eoadside between Ryde and Brading, at the foot of the hill beyond 

 the third milestone. Shore between St. Helen's mill and Carpenters. Borders 

 of fields by Howgate farm near Bembridge, and in great abundance and very fine 

 in several fields and hedges near the sea between Foreland point and the Culvers. 

 Top of the ells' above Sandown bay, abundant, and on the banks below. Between 

 Nettleston green and St. Helen's church, Lady Hooker. Between Niton and 

 Blackgang, by the lower road. Dr. Martin. At Bembridge, near the windmill. 

 Dr. Bell-Salter. At Springfield, opposite Vernon Villa. Prioiy landslips, near 

 St. Helen's old church, 1850, Dr. Bell-Salter. Puckaster cove, /. Curtis, Esq., 

 Brit. Entom. x. t. 445. 



* A specimen of what appeared to them to be the leaves of this plant was found 

 in June, 1843, by Dr. Martin and J. A. Hankey, Esq., in Sandown bay. 



