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274. Lathyrus maritimus (L.) Fr., Flora Scan. (1835) p. 106.
Pisurn maritimum, K. & M., 1770, p. 209.—Olafsen & Povelsen, 1772,
p. 322.—Zoega, 1772, p. 9.—L. maritimus Bigel., Babington, 1871, p. 301.—
L. mar. Fr., Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881, p. 21.—L. mar. Bigel., Stefánsson, Fl.
ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 142.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 160,—L. mar. (L.) Bigel.,
O. & Gr., 1934, p. 94.
Flora Dan. tab. 338 (Pisum maritimum L.).
Icelandic : Baunagras. Danish : Strand-Ært. English : Sea-Pea.
Found here and there in the coastal areas, except in E., whence it has not yet
been recorded. In S. it is sometimes found in localities at a rather great distance
from the sea; see fig. 117.
Life-form: H.
On sea-shores in sandy and gravelly places.
Flor. VII—VIII; fr. mat. VIII.
Max. height: 35 cm ; average : 20 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: New Jersey to Arctic Am.; Great Lakes, and on the Pacific
coast from Kotzebue Sound to California.—Greenl.: W. 60°—61°10'. E. 60°
—60°35'.—Eur. : E.S.I. ; from northernmost Scandinavia and Kola peninsula south-
ward to France; Baltic Sea.—Asia: Verkhoiansk, Okhotsk and N. Kamchatka to
northern China, Japan.
275. Lathyrus palustris Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 733.
H. Jónsson, 1899, p. 197,-—Stefánsson, Fl. tsl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 142.—Ibid.,
ed. 2, 1924, p. 160,—O. & Gr., 1934, p. 95.
Flora Dan. tab. 399.