134 THE LADIES' FLOWER-GARDEN 
petiole ; peduncles usually 2-flowered, hardly longer than the leaves ; 
calyx hairy ; segments ovate, acuminated, length of the tube ; legumes 
oblong, hairy, seeds globose, warted. — (G. Don.) 
a— LATHYRUS HIRSUTUS, Lin. THE ROUGH-PODDED VETCHLING. 
Emgiutings Bot. Mag. t. 1255, Eng. Bot. t. 1255, 2ud edit. 
vol. vi. t. 1002. 
Specific CuARACTEa. — Stems winged; leaflets linear-lanceolate, 
3-nerved ; stipules semi-sagittate, linear, about equal in length to the 
Description, &c. — The flower consists of a bright crimson standard, pale bine wings, and a white keeL It 
is a native of the south of Europe ; but it has been occasionally found in England, in Essex, and between Bath 
and Bristol. It is very ornamental, and the seeds, which may be had in any seed-shop, only require the same 
treatment as those of the other species. 
OTHER KINDS OF LATHYRUS. 
L. SPH^RICUS, Retz. ; syn. L. COCCINEUS, All. ; L. AXILLARIS, Lam. ; L. ANGULATUS, Stev. 
The flowers are of a beautiful crimson, and about the size of those of L.Nissolia ; and the plant, which is 
a native of the south of Europe, was introduced in 180L 
L. CICERA, Lin. THE DWARF CHICKLING VETCH. 
This plant is a native of Spain, and was introduced in 1633. It has purple and red flowers, and flat 
pods. 
L. ANNUUS, Lin. 
This species has winged stems, and yellow flowers. It is a native of Spain, and was introduced in 1621. 
L. TURGIDUS, Lam. 
A native of the south of France and the Levant. The flowers have a dark purple standard, and white wings 
and keel. It was introduced in 1817- 
L. CILIATUS, Guss. 
A native of the Calabrian hiUs. The flowers are greenish, strongly marked with purple veins. 
L. ALATUS, Tenor e. 
A native of Italy, with winged stems, and very large purple flowers ; introduced in 1823. 
OTHER &PECIES OF LEGUMINOSiE. 
Several other ornamental annual plants belonging to this order might be enumerated; particularly the 
crown-bearing variety of the common pea (^Pimm sativum), with its tufts of scarlet and white flowers, and 
several kinds of Meliht%is, &c. Lord Anson's pea {Lathams Magellanicus) is included, by some seedsmen, in 
their lists of annuals ; but it is a greenhouse evergreen shrub, which, so far from being an annual, rarely ripens 
seeds in England. The seeds sold under the name of Lord Anson's pea, are generally those of the Tangier Pea, 
which we have already described. (See p. 131.) 
