and pink on the same raceme, darkest near the base. Calyx 
silky, two-lipped, with an extremely minute bracteola ; the 
upper lip emarginate, the lower entire. Corolla about the 
size of L. perennis. Pods narrow, straight, rather shaggy, 
contracted round the seeds. 
A very beautiful perennial Lupine, introduced from Cali- 
fornia by the Horticultural Society, and hitherto but little 
known It has been called in the Society's Garden a dwarf 
Lupinus rivularis, and I find the specimens in my herbarium 
marked as “ very near L. rivularis” in the hand-writing of 
Dr. Agardh. Nevertheless, the affinity of the species seems 
to be less with Z. rivularis than with Z. nootkatensis, for it 
has nothing of an arborescent habit. 
Independently of that mark of distinction from L. rivu- 
laris it has a stem not even half the size, sweet-scented flowers, 
and shaggy legumes. 
The decumbent habit of this species renders it well suited 
for a bed in a flower-garden ; it produces a great profusion 
of its pale, many -coloured flowers, breathing the sweet per- 
fume of the field bean, during all the months of May and 
June; after which it ripens its pods, and remains shabby 
for the rest of the year. 
