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all men, in all lands! 
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Wha nosey nee conferred a name, 
Or fancy’s dre: superstition’s art— 
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With thoughts and feelings it may well es 
PEA, EVERLASTING. 
LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS. 
Class 17.—DIADELPHIA. Order.—DECANDRIA, 
Nat. Ord. Lin end tee 
PAPILIONACE. GUMINOS&, 
Lathyrus. ame ted from Theo aaah hiss — 
ros appears, ey. sacs . oe like ours, basen $8 of the pea o 
vetch ki: 
1 : \ 1 +h wR. 
th 
bg ape d woo! iy: yaad mg of the vetching is flat 
oat upright, with a wool ve 
um is said b pe res tke ed from, the Celtic Pi- 
sen, and that ese Lol the o common Too ne baci ee in Bree — 
guages. Hence t 
and ramen shasinte Norfolk, peasen ; 
Italian, piso; Welsh, pus; all synon 
by the learned to be deduced from t 
“es er rench pois, ‘eter: 
ymous with pis said 
e Greek PIsON, meaen ch 
The common garden pea, Pisum ot bearing pearly- 
bein a tacuihecuk towers The field, o es P. Arvense, 
h Solita ary purplish flowers, whose wings are of a violet 
bet sg Sen Caboast, etc., are the poking pea kinds; the 
roots a 
Vetchling, or wh hocie is of common origin with vicia, an old 
Latin ed by some portals Goa from png. 1g — 
voniehiae: & as 
tendrils, d 
hyrus nae or Great Everlasting mice hese known to 
most arner tbr ee S pi tse for = flowers ; it has s that endure 
for a long co hrowin: ng up eae climbing = 
which bear 1 f b crimson ; leaflet 
Lliptical, 
e in pairs ; stem winged ; perianth ea on one inet, 
eet ; ——- papilionaceous; ; standard very large, in- 
-shaped, reflexed at the sides ‘and summit ; wings 
sae 
the size of the 1 wings, but broader, separating about the mid- 
dle, inwards. Native of Europe. 
- PEA, SWEET. 
#£. LATHYRUS ODORATUS, 
17. recgve-ssatemars rder.—DECANDRIA. 
Ord, Juss. 
at. 
xioinecus 2. LEGUMINOS® 
Common npr xs L. 0. isa hardy — fon of Sicily 
and Ceylon. Stalks t Leaflets ovate, oblong, tw 
to each 
endril ; — hairy. 
The fragrance of the sw a blossom is similar to oo of 
ers, wit the rose. These 
soms pecu t negli of ac 
be gi and richness of coloring, varied with sdasetieddins, in 
jan aegaes etc., all in the same flower. It is much cul- 
tivated by the cesar 
tip-toe for a flight, 
With mings geile dus flush o’er delicate white, 
adacdye things, 
els ene 
Harte. 
B. Barton. 
through the French pesche 
persica, i llusi to th 
= being perticulerly: obnoxious to a insect Pulex. The spe- 
i readily traced to 
Sy fete g UA 
BS “ s oor" <r : 
as ae 
Pha, Wau: 
(See note on nites everlasting . 
digvenous 
N. Amer rope, et every variety 0 of h Theya 
intimately msoociated with: the ay time of youth, when the 
5 x 
* ¢ t 
, in que st of wild flowers. 
Where vetches, pulse, and = have stood, 
And stalks of lupines grew 
And there 
Dryden, 
re ange coun voices a 
Of sunshine and of flowers. 
There’s music in ha forest leaves, 
7hen summer winds are there, 
din the | ane of forest di rls, 
That braid their sunny h Halleck, 
The variegated Mage iors Serenata, with crimson and 
oat brent ms. ee etch, , others 
teh, flowers white, delicately 
ees wit ne ee sane e3 — tufted vetch, blue fl 
dense clusters—are all — but it is impossible to spare 
e for ie enumer agg all the varieties of ene 
red, violet parti-colored, 1 bea tiful 
genus PT th to peony a tastes. 
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PEACH-BLOSSOM. 
AMYGDALUS. 
(For Amygdalus, see Almond.) 
Class 12.—IcOSANDRIA, Order.—-MONOGYNIA, 
Nat. Ord, Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
POMACER, ROSACEA, 
Peach, E.—Fr. peche ; It. pesea ; Lat. malum persicum, a tree 
and ‘fruit. See Webster and John nson, 
crynta is not 5 a 
Encyclop 
e of the "euit peach, comes 
ree, a Italian a from 
its origin—Pers 
It came to 
y of t 
e Roman: s from Pers 
Go cote and my passion declare, 
ou speak— 
Yet he peach blossom hue is less fair. 
Than the bloom of her beautiful cheek. 
Wiffen. 
PENNYROYAL. 
Class 2.—DIANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
LABIATAE. 
The British plant Mentha Polatek common pennyroyal of 
England—and the N. ts erican Hedeoma pulegioides, are those 
particularly designate: 
Hedeoma is sraciniaesd i 
HEDUOSMON cn Mentha, ) 
Nat. Ord. Linn. 
VERTICILLAT. 
“be derived from the Greek bse 
— Tico words are ced 
— English word pennyroyal, Or, yates to Piny, pulial 
the plant; 
mes pulegi d pulegioides, can be 
Same source, viz: anes 
phon Mentha, see further the-note on Mint. 
