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LUPÍNUS* Sabiniánus. 
Yellow Perennial Lupine. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Lesumınosz Juss. $ Papilionacee De Cand. (Introduc- 
tion to the natural system of Botany, p. 87.) 
LUPINUS.— Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1096. 
L. Sabinianus ; herbaceus, racemis subverticillatis cylindraceis multifloris, 
floribus ebracteatis, calyce villoso : labio superiore ovato-acuto inferiore 
cymbiformi revoluto, alis rotundatis vexilli magnitudine, cariná acutá, 
foliolis 7-12 lanceolatis acuminatis sericeis. 
L. Sabinianus. Douglas in herb. Hort. Soc. 
Perennis. Caules erecti, 3-pedales, subpubescentes, parüm ‘ramosi. 
Folia radicalia olivacea, subpedalia ; stipulis minimis, adnatis, subulatis ; 
foliolis numero incertis, 9-19, utrinque precipue subtüs sericeis; caulina 
minora, foliolis paucioribus. Racemi terminales, in spontaneá 8-9 uncias 
longi, densi, sed subverticillati, Rachis, bractee, pedicellique pubescentes. 
Bractewe citissimé decidue, subulate, floribus longiores. Flores lutei. Vexil- 
lum subrotundum, subemarginatum. | Ale oblonge, obtuse, paulo ventricose, 
vexilli magnitudine; carina acuta, multd angustior, equilonga, margine 
superiore leviter ciliato. Stamina 5 longiora, carine fere equalia, antheris 
rotundis ; 5 breviora, antheris linearibus. 
A native of North-west America, where it was found by 
Mr. Douglas at the junction of Lewis and Clarke's River 
with the Colombia, growing on the subalpine range of 
mountains. 
It flowered this year, for the first time, in the Garden 
of the Horticultural Society in May, and has since pro- 
duced a few seeds. It is, however, a very difficult plant to 
manage; it does not grow readily in any soil or situation 
that has yet been tried, and its racemes of flowers, however 
beautiful, are by no means so handsome as in its native 
* See fol. 1198. 
