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2. Yellow Pea. Lathyrus Aphaca, Linn. (Fig. 284.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1167. Yellow Vetcliling.) 



A weak, branching, glabrous annual, 

 about a foot long, without real leaflets, 

 but the two large, broadly heart-shaped, 

 or sagittate stipules, assume the appear- 

 ance of simple opposite leaves, with a 

 slender branching tendril between them. 

 Peduncles long and slender, with 1 or 

 rarely 2 small yellow flowers. Pod 

 rather more than an inch long, flattened, 

 glabrous, containing 4 to 8 seeds. 



In waste and cultivated places, in 

 central and southern Europe and cen- 

 tral Asia, spreading northwards as a 

 cornfield weed, and, as such, appearing 

 occasionally in the southern counties of 

 England. Fl. early summer. 



Fig. 284. 



3. Rough Pea. Lathyrus hirsutus, Linn. (Fig. 285.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1255.) 



A weak annual, much branched at the 

 base, a foot long or more, with the young 

 shoots slightly hairy. Stipules narrow. 

 Tendrils branched, with a single pair 

 of linear-lanceolate leaflets. Peduncles 

 long, with 1 or 2 rather small flowers. 

 The standard bright red, the keel and 

 wings paler. Pod hairy. 



In cultivated and waste places, in 

 southern Europe to the Caucasus, spread- 

 ing northwards as a cornfield weed, and 

 as such has been found in Essex and in 

 iSomersetshire. Fl. early summer. 



