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LÜPINUS* nicranthus 
Small-flowered Lupine. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LecumINOSE. 
LUPINUS. — Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1096. 
L. micranthus; annüus, floribus subverticillatis sessilibus bracteolatis, calycis 
labio superiore bifido : inferiore integro, foliolis 5-7, lineari-spatulatis 
ciliatis, leguminibus 6-spermis transversim sulcatis, caule ramoso, radi- 
cibus granulatis.— Douglas. ; 
Annuus. Radix fibrosa, tuberculis carnosis, verruciformibus. Caulis 
erectus, ramosus, subpedalis, pilis brevibus albis pubescens. Folia digitata ; 
stipulis subulatis, foliolis 5-7, lineari-spatulatis, suprà glabris, subtùs pilosis, 
ciliatis, carnosis, circiter 3 quartas uncie longis. Flores subverticillati, 
pauci, sessiles. Bractex subulate, pilose, foliis atriores. Cal sericeus, 
labio superiore bifido, inferiore integro. Vexillum ovatum, ceruleum, medio 
album, maculis 2-4ve nigris parallelis. Ale oblongae, vexillo equales. 
Carina falcata, acuta. Legumen lineari-oblongum, transverse sulcatum, 
5-6-spermum. Semina magna, fusca, grisea, nebulosa.— Douglas. 
If this is not to be compared in point of beauty with 
such fine species as L. perennis, ornatus, and others, which 
have been already figured in this work from Mr. Douglas's 
collections, it is nevertheless interesting as an addition to 
the number of species of annual Lupines. 
According to Mr. Douglas, this has much affinity with 
Lupinus bicolor, published at fol. 1109 of this work, from 
which it differs in being more slender, and in flowering 
from four to six weeks earlier. It is more particularly to 
be distinguished from that species by the shortness of its 
ale, its nearly sessile flowers, fleshy leaves, granulated 
roots, larger pods, and the colour and size of the seeds. 
* See fol. 1198. 
