Grass pea

It has a perennial, woody rootstock clothed in silky hairs, from which rise three or four pea Grass trefoil leaves, and a runner or two starting off to produee young plants. The hairy leaflets are oblong with edges eut into coarse teeth, and showing strongly marked lines on Grass pea the surface. The white fiowers are borne on the radical, erect fiower-stem, and are about three-quarters of an inch across, the lobes of the calyx showing between the Grass pea five petais. There is an epicalyx of five bracteoles, which are slightly smaller than the calyx lobes. There are ten stamens and numerous pistils.
A shrub, three to five feet high, which may Grass pea be found on hilly downs, bushy places and wastes. Often confounded with the Furze, by the non-botanical rambler, due, no doubt, to the similarity of the flowers. and the pea Grass partiality of both for heaths and commons. The principal difference between the two is, thar whilst the Furze has sharp spines instead of ordinary leaves, the Broom rarely puts on Grass pea any prickles at all. It has numerous long, erect green branches and has compound leaves, of three small leaflets. The large, bright yellow flowers are solitary or in pairs, on pea Grass slender stalks springing from the axils of the old leaves.