4. Pifum umhellatum^ R. 318, G. 1045, 342. | 
Rofe Peafe. This is more upright than the com- 
mon Pea, and ftands without fupport : The flowers 
tliat grow on the flalk are white, and difpofed in 
a roundilh form. 
5. Pifum arvenfe fru 5 lu e liiteo virefcente^ R. 318, 
C. 342. Field Peafe, with a greenifli yellow fruit, 
called Pig Peafe. 
6. Pifum marimm^ R. 319, G. E. 1250. fpon~ 
taneum maritimum Anglicum^ P. 1059, 
Pifum aliud maritimum Britannicum^ Ejufdem, ibid. 
Englifh Sea Peafe. Near Haftings^ in Suffex. This 
has triangular (talks, full of joints lying on the j 
ground, branched, with two leaves at each joint | 
and origine of a branch ; from between which a j' 
leaf is extended, compofed of five or fix pair of | 
roundifh lobes, faften’d to a middle rib, ending in a I 
tendril: The flowers grow near the tops of the i 
branches, or together, on a common (talk coming ! , 
out of thebofom of the leaves, of a pale red, and, . 
when open, of a pale blue : The pods are fhorter : 
and fmaller than the common Pea, and contain eight, j j 
and fometimes ten half-white feeds ; which, as they I < 
become ripe, change to a light or dark olive colour: : 
They are bitter, as is alfo the whole plant. 
Peafe, when green, are a pleafant, grateful, nourilhing food, I . 
but fomewhat flatulent and windy, as well as when dry ; and 
are good to fweeten the blood, and corred fait fcorbutick ill- 
nefs, either eaten raw or boiled. 
Lathyrus. It hath a papilianaceous flower, out [ 
of whofe empalement rifcs the (lyle, covered I 
with a membranous (heath, which afterwards be- j 
comes a pod, fometimes round, fometimes cylin- v 
drical, and fometimes angular : The ftalk iscom- 
pre(Ted with a railed rib, and leafy border : It has » 
only one pair of leaves, growing on the nerves, 
v/hich terminate in a tendril. I'he (pedes are : ( 
I. Lathyrus major latifolius^ R. 319, G*E. 1229. ^ 
