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THERMOPSIS* fabácea: 
Bean-leaved Thermopsis. 
Sii e 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Lecuminosa. $ Sophoree. - 
THERMOPSIS R. Br.—Calyx oblongus, campanulatusve, 4-5-fidus, 
subbilabiatus, postice convexus, basi attenuatus. Petala 5, subeequalia, 
vexillo lateribus reflexis, carinà obtusá. Stamina persistentia. Legumen 
compressum falcatum aut lineare polyspermum. Herbe perennes, sericeo- 
villose. Folia trifoliata. Stipule ovato-lanceolate, foliacee. Racemi 
terminales, floribus pedicellatis geminis aut subverticillatis flavis.— Decand. 
prodr. 2. 99. 
T. fabacea; foliis petiolatis, foliolis lato-ovalibus, stipulis lato-oyatis obtusis 
petiolo brevioribus, racemo alternifloro. Dec. l. c. 
Sophora fabacea. ‘ Pall. astr. p. 122. t. 90. f. 2." 
Herba perennis, 2-3-pedalis, radice repente. Caulis erectus, flexuosus. 
Folia trifoliolata, nunc 5-foliolata ; stipulis ovatis, foliaceis ; foliolis oblongis, 
obtusis, v. obovatis, subtüs minute pubescentibus, venis glabris. Racemi 
axillares, foliis multò longiores, subverticillati. Calyces sericei, dentibus 
ovatis. Corolla lutea, glaberrima. Legumina erecta, 3-uncialia, linearia, 
pubescentia, compressa, stylo curvo, glabro, indurato apiculata. 
A native of the north-eastern side of Asia, and the 
north-western of America. It has been found by Russian 
collectors in Kamtchatka and the Kurile Islands; and 
Mr. Douglas sent specimens and seeds from the neighbour- 
hood of the Columbia, where it was discovered, as we 
learn from his Herbarium, in the possession of the Horti- 
cultural Society, ‘ in dry channels of mountain torrents, 
in the valleys of the Blue Mountains.” 
It is a good herbacéous plant, remarkable for the neat- 
* Oíguos, a lupine, and #44, the appearance ; in reference to the Lupine- 
like aspect of the genus. 
