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a brilliant crimson, having all the richness of velvet ; while the wings and keel are of a bright rose-colour. This 
pea was introduced in 1680, by Dr. Morison, who received it from Tangiers, and it has remained in cultivation 
ever since. Seeds may be procured at any seed-shop, and the plants require the same care as those of the 
sweet pea. 
3.—LATHYRUS ARTICULATUS, Lin. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 253 ; and our Jig. 4, in Plate 23. 
Specific Character _Stem tetragonal, winged; lower petioles 
leafless, linear, acuminated, upper ones bearing 5-6 linear leaflets. 
Stipules lanceolate, semi-sagittate. Peduncles 1-3-flowered, about 
THE JOINTED OR WINGED PEA. 
equal in length to the leaves. Calycine teeth nearly equal, shorter 
than the tube. Legumes rather turgid, finely reticulated and nodose 
at the seeds, having the seminiferous suture tumid. Seeds compressed, 
dark purple, rather velvety.—( G. Don.} 
Description, &c.— The flower consists of a bright red standard with white wings and keel. This pea is a 
native of the south of Europe, and when it was first introduced, it was called the Spanish pea, because its seeds 
were sent from Spain to the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, in 1739. It is of rather lower growth than the common 
sweet pea, seldom rising above three feet high, but it may be sown and treated in the same manner. 
4.—LATHYRUS AMPHICARPOS, Lin. THE UNDER-GROUND OR EARTH-PEA. 
Engravings. —Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 236; and our Jig. 6, in 
Plate 23. 
Specific Character. —Stems winged, diffuse. Leaflets lanceolate. 
Tendrils simple. Stipules semi-sagittate, 1-toothed, longer than the 
petioles. Peduncles 1-flowered, longer than the leaves. Cauliue as 
well as subterraneous legumes ovate, 2-winged in front, and a little 
compressed on the sides, 2-seeded.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —This plant is grown more for its singularity than its beauty. The flowers which appear 
above ground are pink tinged with blue; but the underground stems bear flowers and pods, which are quite 
perfect, and exactly similar to those above-ground, except that every part of the underground plant is whitish. 
The plant is much smaller than any of the other peas, and rarely grows above a foot high. Seeds may be had in 
any of the seed-shops, and they should be sown in February in very light soil, to allow the underground shoots 
to make their way. The plants when nearly full grown are generally earthed up. 
5.—LATHYRUS SATIVUS, Lin. THE CHICKLING VETCH. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 115 ; and our Jig. 3, in Plate 23. 
Specific Character _Plant smoothisli. Stems winged. Leaflets 
linear-oblong. Tendrils trifid. Stipules semi-sagittate, ovate, ciliated, 
hardly the length of the petioles. Peduncles 1-flowered, longer than 
the petioles, bracteolate and articulated at the apex. Calycine seg¬ 
ments lanceolate, foliaceous, almost three times the length of the tube. 
Legumes ovate, broad, short, irregularly reticulated, winged on the 
back. Seeds trigonal, smooth, rather truncate.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c.— The flowers are bright blue, with a faint stain of pink between the standard and the 
wings. The pods are winged with a deep groove down the back. The plant seldom grows above two feet high, 
and is much branched. There is a variety with white flowers. This species is a native of France and Spain, 
where it is grown for feeding horses, and hence its specific name of “ Sativus,” which signifies cultivated. The 
flour made from the peas when ground, if mixed with an equal quantity of wheat flour, makes excellent bread, but 
taken alone it produces an extraordinary rigidity of the muscles. In the year 1671, a famine having occurred in 
Wirtemberg on account of the failure of the wheat crops, the peasants made their bread entirely of this flour. 
After living upon it for some days, some of them began to find themselves strangely affected ; one man when he 
bent his arm could not straighten it again; and a neighbour who laughed at him found that he could not bring 
his mouth back to its original form, but that he was doomed to wear an eternal grin. The medical men applied 
