The BRITISH HERBAL. 
281 
The flowers grow in clufters on long foot- 
ftaiks rifing from the bofoms of the leaves, and 
are of a bright purple. 
The fced-veifel is long and flender, and the 
feeds are numerous and roundilli. 
It is frequent among bufhes in Germany, and 
many other part.^ of Europe, where the roots are 
dug for the table. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lalhyrns arvenfis repens t'U- 
herofus. 
5. Strip'd yellow-flowered Vetchling. 
Lathyrus fore fiavo firlato. 
The root is long and thick ; divided into 
many parts, and furniflied with numerous irre- 
gular fibres. 
The ftalks are flender, weak, and flat-, edged 
by a membrane, and of a pale green colour. 
The leaves grow, as in the others, two toge- 
ther, with a tendril rifing from between them ; 
they are broad, fiiort, and fliarp-pointcd, and 
of a frefli green. 
The flowers grow three or four together on 
fiender footflalks, and are of a beautiful yellow, 
fliriped with purple. 
The pods are long and flender, and the feeds 
are roundifli and fmall. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in Augufl. 
Morifon calls it Lathyrus Bwticus flore hiteo. 
It is one of the moft beautiful of the lathyrus 
kind. 
4. Vetchling called Sweet Pea. 
Lathyrus hirfutus magno flore. 
The root is compofed of feverai thick fibres, 
with fmallcr growing from them- 
The ftalks are flatted and weak, but confi- 
derably thick, and of a pale green. 
The leaves are very large, and of a pale green, 
foft to the touch, and a little hairy : they grow 
two together, and have a tendril rifing between 
them. 
The flowers are large, and of a mixed red, and 
are very fweet-fcentcd. 
The fced-veficl is large and hairy, and the 
feeds are roundifli and brown. 
It is a native of Africa, and flowers in July. Ic 
is kept in our garden^ for its beauty and fragrance, 
but very improperly called 2. pea. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lathyrus ficulus. 
5. Vetchling, called Tangier Pea. 
Lathyrus hiflorus floribus ruberrimis. 
The root is long, divided, and furniihcd with 
numerous, thick, and crooked fibres. 
The iValks are thick, but weak, and mode- 
rately branched : they are angulated, and of a 
paie greyifli green. 
The leaves grow, as in the others, two toge- 
ther, with a tendril between them : they are 
long, narrow, and fharp-pointed, and are of a 
pale green. 
The flowers grow upon very long footflalks 
rifing from the bofoms of the leaves, two on each ; 
and they are large, and of a beautiful red. 
The pods are fiender, and the feeds are roun- 
dim. 
It is a native of Africa, but flowers very well 
in our gardens. 
Morifon calls it Lathyrus tlngitanus fdiquis orobi 
flore amph ruberrimo. Our gardeners, Tangier 
pea. 
GENUS III, 
CHICKLING. 
. C L 2- M E N U M. 
THE flower is papilionaceous, and is compofed of four petals. The vexlllum is large, dented 
at tl-Le extremity, and turned back at the top and at the edges. The ate are ftiort hooked, 
and obtufe, and the carina is broad, and fplit in the middle. The cup is formed of a Tingle leaf, 
narrow at the bottom, wide at the mouth, and divided, into Hve fcgments ; the two upper ones ihort, 
and the lower one very long. The pod is long, and flatted at top. The leaves grov? in a pinnated 
manner, feverai pairs together. 
^ Linna:us places this among the diadelphia duaniria ; the threads being formed into two bodies, 
nine into one, and a fingle one in the other. ' 
That author joins this genus and the lathyrus, though Nature have thus plainly difl:inguilhed them 
by the compofition of the leaves. 
It is an invariable charafler, and can never be mifl:aken. It is the more needful, as the plants of 
each genus are numerous ; and of the more authority, as thofe of the prefent arrangement have 
been generally difl:inguifhed by this feparate name. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Variegated wild Chichling. 
Clymtnum Jylveftre fore 'jariegato. 
The root is long and flender, divided into 
feverai parts, and furnifiied with numerous, thick, 
and fpreading fibres. 
N" 28. 
The ftalk is flatted, and edged, of a pale 
greyilli green, weak, and branched : it hangs 
irregularly, or is fupported by the ftouter plants 
or buflies ; and in this manner grows to a foot 
and half or more in length. 
The leaves are placed irregularly, and each is 
4 C compofed 
