DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Lathyrus. 839 
Stems angular, twisted, slightly hairy, about two feet long. Leafits , a 
single pair, slightly hairy, with three strong ribs, terminated by an awn. 
Leaf-stalks triangular, furrowed above, ending in tendrils mostly divid¬ 
ing into three. Stipules half-arrow-shaped, pointed, with long appen¬ 
dages, two at the base of each leaf-stalk. Fruit-stalks very long. 
Flowers about one or one inch and a half from each other. Flower-scales 
awl-shaped, small, about a quarter of an inch beneath the terminal 
flower, and at the base of the short pedicle of the lower. Calyx one-third 
the length of the blossom; clefts extending half way down ; segments five, 
equal. Pods short, covered with hair, each hair proceeding from a gland. 
Woodw. Blossom variegated with purple and white, with yellow lines 
within. ( Stems climbing. Stigma permanent, very blunt. E.) 
Rough-podded Vetchling. Corn-fields and ditch banks. Fields about 
Hockley and Rayleigh ; and elsewhere in Rochford, Essex. Near Mun- 
den Church and Laydon Hall in Hengy Hundred, Essex. Blackstone. 
On the sides of two hills, the one north of Pensford, on the Bristol road, 
the other between Pensford and Keynsham, Somersetshire. Rev. G. 
Swayne. (Sunderland Ballast Hills. Mr. Winch.) * A. July. 
(3) Fruit-stalks many-flowered. 
L. praten'sis. Tendrils with two leaves, mostly simple: leafits spear- 
shaped. 
Kniph. 11— Curt. 170—(j E. Bot. 6 70. E.)— Riv. Tetr. 43. L. pratensis — FI. 
Fan. 52 7— J. B. ii. 304. 2 — Wale. — II. Ox. ii. 2. 2—Anderson — Lob. Obs. 
517. 3, and Ic. ii. 69. 2—Ger. Em. 1231. 6—Park. 1061. 1. 
(Root tuberculous. Stems slender, climbing, two or three feet long, E.) 
much branched. Leaves smooth. Leaf-stalks furrowed, triangular, 
terminating in tendrils. Stipules spear-arrow-shaped, large, in pairs 
at the base of each leaf-stalk. Fruit-stalks long, with four, five, or more 
flowers. Pedicles short, hairy. Flower-scales awl-shaped, very minute, 
one at the base of each pedicle. Calyx one-third as long, as the 
blossom, somewhat hairy, cloven half way down; segments rather 
unequal. Legume black, smooth. Tendrils sometimes two or three cleft. 
Woodw. Blossom yellow; standard with six or seven purple lines just 
above the claw. Anthers oblong. 
Tare Everlasting. Yellow Meadow Vetchling. (Welsh: Ydby- 
sen y waun. E.) Meadows, pastures, woods, thickets, and hedges, (at¬ 
taining the greatest size on tenacious clayey soils. Hort. Gram. E.) 
P. July—Aug.* 
L. sylves'tris. Tendrils with two leaves: leafits sword-shaped : stem 
winged. 
(E . Bot. 80 5. E.)— Riv. Tetr. 39, L. sylvaticus, very large — Clus. ii. 229. 
2 —Lob. Obs. 517. 1, and Ic. ii. 68. 2— Ger. Em. 1229. 1 —Park. 1063. 3 
■— Fuchs. 572 — Trag. 613— Dod. 523. 2— J. B. ii. 302. 2— H. Ox. ii. 2. 4. 
% L. 'pratensis has been recommended as a new plant for experimental agricultu¬ 
rists, and premiums have been offered for its cultivation. But it does not seem to be 
agreeable to cattle, as where they have a choice of food they seldom touch it. Besides it 
produces very few seeds, and those are for the most part devoured by a species of Curculio. 
Mr. Swayne. (Apion Ervi and Lathyri , according to Kirby, are found upon this species ; 
also the caterpillar of the white butterHy, Leucophasia Sinapis , feeds upon it. (The merits 
of this Vetchling, as to produce and nutrient qualities, are only in proportion of three to 
seven of the red clover. It is nauseously bitter, Hort, Gram. E.) 
