LATHYRIJS. 
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Pisum sativumL., the common Garden Pea, with w.fl. and unspotted 
se?ds, is cultivated everywhere, and is in season for the table from 
Nov. (in Funchal) to May. P. arvense L., the Field Pea, known by 
its col. fl. (purple-violet standard) and angular compressed brown- 
spotted seeds, rarely and only accidentally occurs. 
25. Lathyrtjs L. 
s 1. Eulathyrus Ser. in DC.; standard simple (without tuber- 
cles) at the base. — Annual ; ped. 1-3-flowered. Lfts. 
none or in a single pair. 
1. L. Aphaca L. 
Smooth glaucescent suberect scarcely or little branched de- 
cumbent or climbing by means of the tendrils ; 'petioles leafless 
ending in a tendril ; stip. large leaf -like ovate-sagittate or cordate ; 
ped. 1 -flowered ; sep. equal lanceolate twice the length of tube 
or rather more. — Desf. ii. 157; EB. 1. 1167; Buch ! 197. no. 386; 
DC. ii. 372; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 274; WB. ii. 109; Seub. Fl. Azor. 
49. no. 387 ; Koch 221 ; Bab. 84. Pisum Aphaca Brot. ii. 145. 
— Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, i . — Borders of cornfields and waste 
ground to the E. of Funchal along the Can^o road. Chestnut 
woods at the Mount, &c. March, Apr. — Remarkable for the 
entire want of lfts., which are replaced by the large broad leaf- 
like stip. Foliage bright light gr. often glaucous. St. upright 
but weak and climbing, 9-12 or 15 in. high. Whole pi. smooth 
and shining. Ped. about 2 in. long, rarely 2-fiowered. Fl. y., for 
the genus rather small i. e. about 5 lines long ; standard and 
wings full bright y., the former pencilled at the base inside 
with dark b. lines or streaks. Keel pale lemon-coloured or 
whitish. Bractlet on ped. always solitary ; when, as occasion- 
ally, there are 2 fl. on the ped., the upper fl. only having one at 
the base of its pedicel. Pods 6-8-seeded oblong compressed 
subfalcate torulose reticulate, an inch long, 3 lines broad. Seeds 
suborbicular compressed smooth shining plain black, 1| line in 
diam.; hilum small oval. 
2. L. spHiERicus Retz. 
Smooth not glaucous suberect branched from the base dif- 
fuse not climbing with simple awnlike tendrils ; the branches 
4-angular ; lfts. in one pair linear-lanceolate or linear grass- 
like elongate finely attenuated at both ends ; stip. linear 
semi-sagittate as long as or longer than the petiole ; ped. 
1-fld. short, mostly shorter than the leafstalk, produced into 
a long slender awn longer than itself ; fl. rather small ; 
cal. -teeth nearly equal narrow lanceolate acuminate longer 
than the tube; pod narrow elongate slightly compressed 
and torulose strongly nerved longitudinally smooth 9 or 10- 
seeded, slightly margined at the back ; seeds globose slightly 
compressed smooth and even. — “ Retz Obs. iii. 39 ” ; DC. Ic. 
