1581 



LUPINUS* elegans. 



Drooping-leaved Lupine 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA 



Nat. ord. Leguminoss: 



Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 



Botany, p. 86.) 



LUPINUS.— Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1096. 



L. elegans ; herbaceus erectus molliter pilosis, racem.s donggs 1 peduncu 

 latis, floribus subverticillatis, calycis senceo-pilosi labio nfe now ^ 

 integro, foliolis lanceolatis acutis subtus adpresse pilosis, stipulis setaceis. 



Be Cand. prodr. 2. 408. 

 L. elegans. Humb. et Kunth. n. gen. et sp. 6. 477. „blonaa, 



Annuus, 2-pedalis, undiaue molliter pilosus F <> 1,ol »t^f^elX 

 v. lanceolata, pendula, petiolo subcequalia. Stipul* discolores, apce subu 

 #„#,» b 'f -..mhZi <„hvprt.icillati. Bracteae parvce, subulate, ae 



latce. 

 ciduce. 



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A very pretty annual Lupine, native of Mexico whence 

 seeds were sent to the Horticulture Society by D . Jieppe 



in 1831. It flowers in the open 



most abundantly, in 



, It flowers in mc u F ^» «■■> -— „„+;*« and bv 



Its seeds are ripened in tolerable quantity, and by 



June. 



them it is increased 



Of all the annual Lupines this is by far the handsomest 



the best of the perennial species 



J. L 





See fol. 1198 









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