Produced by Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file made using scans of public domain works at the University of Georgia.) THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE; OR, Flower-Garden Displayed: IN WHICH The most Ornamental FOREIGN PLANTS, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated LINNAEUS; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: TOGETHER WITH THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE. A WORK Intended for the Use of such LADIES, GENTLEMEN, and GARDENERS, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. By _WILLIAM CURTIS_, Author of the FLORA LONDINENSIS. VOL. VIII. "Much I love To see the fair one bind the straggling pink, Cheer the sweet rose, the lupin, and the stock, And lend a staff to the still gadding pea. Ye fair, it well becomes you. Better thus Cheat time away, than at the crowded rout, Rustling in silk, in a small room, close-pent, And heated e'en to fusion; made to breathe A rank contagious air, and fret at whist, Or sit aside to sneer and whisper scandal." VILLAGE CURATE, p. 74. _LONDON:_ PRINTED BY STEPHEN COUCHMAN, For W. CURTIS, No 3, _St. George's-Crescent_, Black-Friars-Road; And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, M DCC XCIV. */ [253] LATHYRUS ARTICULATUS. JOINTED-PODDED LATHYRUS. _Class and Order._ DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. _Generic Character._ _Stylus_ planus, supra villosus, superne latior. _Cal._ laciniae superiores 2-breviores. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ LATHYRUS _articulatus_ pedunculis subunifloris, cirrhis polyphyllis; foliolis alternis. _Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 662._ _Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 41._ CLYMENUM hispanicum, flore vario, siliqua articulata. _Tourn. Inst. 396._ LATHYRUS hispanicus, pedunculis bifloris, cirrhis polyphyllis foliolis alternis. _Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to._ The seed-vessels are of the first importance in ascertaining the several species of Lathyrus, some being naked, others hairy, some long, others short, some having a smooth and perfectly even surface, others, as in the present instance, assuming an uneven or jointed appearance. Of this genus we have already figured three annual species, common in flower-gardens, viz. _odoratus_, _tingitanus_, and _sativus_; to these we now add the _articulatus_, not altogether so frequently met with, but meriting a place on the flower-border, as the lively red and delicate white so conspicuous in its blossoms, causes it to be much admired. It is a native of Italy, and was cultivated at the Chelsea Garden, in the time of Mr. RAND, anno 1739.