. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book I. WILD PLANTS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES. ess Subsect. 3. Leguminous Wild Plants Edible. 4309. Sea-peas. Pisum maritimum, L. (Eng. Bot. 1046.) Diad. Decan. L. and Leguminosce, J. (Jig. 476-) These peas have a bitterish disagree- able taste, and are there
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book I. WILD PLANTS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES. ess Subsect. 3. Leguminous Wild Plants Edible. 4309. Sea-peas. Pisum maritimum, L. (Eng. Bot. 1046.) Diad. Decan. L. and Leguminosce, J. (Jig. 476-) These peas have a bitterish disagree- able taste, and are therefore rejected when more pleasant food is to be got. In the year 1555, how- ever, when there was a great famine in England, the seeds of this plant were used as food, by which, ac- cording to Turner, thousands of families were pre- served. The bitter of these seeds might in all probability be removed by steeping and kiln-dry- ing, as in preparing for the mill peas which are, to be split. 4310. Wild vetches. Lathyrus, Vicia, and Ervum, L. Diad. Decan. L. and Leguminosce, J. The seeds of all the British species of these genera may be used as peas. They are found in hedges, woods, and corn-fields, and are most prolific in dry Subsect. 4. Salads from Wild Plants. 4311. Ladies' smock. Cardamine pratensis, L. (Eng. Bot. 776.) Tetrad. Siliq. L. and Cruciferce, J. The leaves of this plant afford an agreeable acrid salad, greatly resembling the American cress. 4312. Stone-crop, or orpine. Sedum Telephium, L. {Eng. Bot. 1319.) Decan. Pentag. L. and Semper- vivece, 3. Trique Madam, Fr. The leaves are eaten in salads like those of purslane, to which, by the French, it is considered equal. 4313. Sea-bindweed. Convolvulus Soldanella, L. {Eng. Bot. 314.) Pent. Monog. L. and Convolvulacece, B. P. This plant abounds on sea-coasts, where the inhabitants gather the tender stalks, and pickle them. It is considered to have rather a cathartic quality. 4314. Sweet Cicely. Scandix odorata, L
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