840 DIADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. Lathyrus. 
Stems widely spreading, climbing or trailing to the height of five or six feet. 
Leaf-stalks rough at the edge. Leajits strap-shaped, not broader than 
the stem. Stipulce awl-shaped, very narrow. Linn. Flowers not more 
than six in a bunch, as small again as those of L. latifolius. Hall. 
(. Fruit-stalks longer than the leaves, bearing from four to ten flowers. 
Blossom purple, wings violet, keel greenish. Legume declining, smooth, 
deep red colour. FI. Brit. 
Var. 2. Leaves broader than the stem. Blossom red and white. 
Leaves sometimes even broader than those of the next species, and having 
more than three ribs; but the stipulse are always narrower than the stem 
in this species, and always broader in latifolius. The flowers in latifolius 
are considerably larger and more numerous than in L. sylvestris. E.) 
Narrow-leaved Everlasting Pea or Vetching. (Welsh: Ydbysen 
barhaus gulddail. E.) Woods and hedges. Between Castle Camps and 
Bartlaw, Cambridgeshire. Ray. Between Bath and Bristol; and Con¬ 
way, Wales. Hudson. Wood sides between Pershore and Eckington, 
Worcestershire. Nash. Shelton Bank, near Salop. Mr. Aikin. On a hill 
near Pensford, with L . hirsutus. Rev. G. Swayne. (In the bushes near the 
path at the foot of the Short Lith, Selborne, Hants. White’s Nat. Hist. 
On a farm called Tai cochion, in the parish of Llanidan, Anglesey. Welsh 
Bot. About Teignmouth. Rev. J. Pike Jones. Sedman’s Wood, near 
Scarborough. Mr. Travis. About Hartford, Kent. Mr. Winch. Fre¬ 
quent about Hythe. Mr. Gerard E. Smith. Rocks near the Red Head 
promontory, on the east coast of Angus-shire. Mr. G. Don, in Hook. Scot. 
Rocks by Red Neese, near Whitehaven: this station was by Ray and 
subsequent Botanists referred to L. latifolius , but the error has recently 
been exposed by the Rev. J. Harriman, on whose authority it is now 
corrected. E.) P. July—Aug. 
L. latifo'lius. Tendrils with two elliptical leafits : stem winged. 
(E. Bot. 1108 — Mill. III. E f—Fl. Dan. 785 and 325 — Biv. Tetr. 40, L. 
Narhonensis — Garid. 108. at p. 300 — Matth. 971. 
(Much like the preceding, but larger. Tendrils often five-cleft. Flowers 
numerous, large, beautiful. FI. Brit. E.) Leafits rolled in, elliptical, 
several times broader than the stem, sometimes four. Stipulce broader 
than the stem, nearly halberd-shaped. Linn. Leaves with four or five ribs ; 
varying much in length, but always broader than the stem. Blossom 
pale purplish rose-colour. 
Broad-leaved Everlasting Pea or Vetchling. Woods and hedges. 
Madingley, Eversden, and Kingston Woods, near Cambridge. Ray. 
Severn Stoke Copse, Worcestershire. Mr. Ballard. (Hawnes and Brom- 
ham, Bedfordshire. Rev. Dr. Abbot. E. Bot. E.) P. July—Aug.* 
L. palus'tris. Tendrils with several elliptic-lanceolate leafits: stipulae 
spear-shaped: stem winged. 
E. Bot. 169 — FI. Dan. 399 — Pluk. 71. 2 — Bap. 1. at p. 210. 
* The beauty of its flowers has obtained it a place in our shrubberies and gardens. (It 
may readily be entwined over the trellis or around trees, by which its luxuriant clusters of 
gay flowers will be displayed to advantage. Prof. Martyn suggests that the prodigious crop 
yielded by this plant, and the lasting nature of its roots, even on a barren soil, should 
render it a fit object for agricultural experiment, E.) 
