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L A T H Y R U S paluftris.
Matjh EverlaJUng-Pea.
D I A D E L P H I A Dccatidriet.
G en. Char. Style flattened, downy above, broader
upwards. T wo upper fegments of the cdyx fhorteft.
Spec. Char. Several flowers on a flalk. Several
leaflets on each tendril. Stipulte lanceolate.
Syn. Lathyrus paluftris. Linn. Sp. PI. 1034. Hud/'
Fl .Hn.3 1 j . With. Bot. Arr. 773- Relb. Cant.
273*
L . vicisformis, feu Vicia Lathyroidos noftras.
Rail Syn. 320.
, J-'H IS occurs in moift woods and paftures in fevcral parts
of England, but not commonly. Our fpecjmen was fent from
Burgh, near Yarmouth, by Dawfon Turner^ Efq. We have
compared it, as well as fome of Mr. Humphrey’s original fpe-
cimens gathered at Ranaugh (fee Hudf.) with thofe of Linnseus,
and find them to agree exactly, except in the number of flowers,
the Swedifh ones having, as Profeflbr Retzius defcribes them, no
more than three on each footftalk. Yet the very indifferent
figure in Flo. Dan. (t. 399.) reprefents as many as thirteen, and
thofe rather red than blue; fo that one would think it could
hardly be the fame fpecies, yet we know of no other like it.
Lathyrus paluftris grows 3 or 4 feet high if fupported by
bullies; the Item but little branched, confiderably winged.
Leaflets 4 or 6, oppofite, or rarely alternate, lanceolate, acute,
glaucous beneath. Tendrils 2 or 3-cleft. Stipulse lanceolate,
but varying in breadth, their lower lobe a little falcated. Flowers
of a vivid purplilh blue of great beauty, in erect bunches.
Pods longilh and fmooth, as is every part of the herbage. It
thrives in a garden in good foil, even if not wet, and is very
ornamental, flowering in the middle of fummer, and continuing
fome time. The roots are perennial.