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Cliff. 499- Lupine with "johcrl-Jhapcd empalements hav- 

 ing appendages^ and the upper and under Up entire, Lu- 

 pinus peregrinus major, velvillofus, coeruleus, major. 

 C. B. P. Foreign^ greater^ hairy Lupine^ with a large 

 Hue flowery commonly caUcd the great blue Lupine. 



c, LuriNus {Albus) calycibus alcernis inappendiculatis, 

 labio fuperiore integro, inferiore tridentato. Hort. 

 Cliff. 499. Lupine with alternate empakments having no 

 appendages^ and the upper lip entire^ but the under cut in- 

 to three parts. Lupinus lativus, flore albo. C. B. P. 

 347. Garden or manured Lupine^ with a white flower, 



6. LiTPiNus (Perennis) calycibus alternis inappendicu- 

 latis, labio fuperiore emarginato, inferiore integro. 

 Lin. Sp. Plant. 721. Lupine with alternate empakments 

 having no appendages^ the upper lip indented^ and the un- 

 der entire, Lupinus cceruleus, minor," perennis, Vir- 

 giniahus, repens. Mor. Hifl. 2. p. 87. Smaller peren- 

 nialj creeping^ blue Lupine of Virginia, "i \ n. ■ j ?v. 

 The firft fort grows naturally among tlie Corn in 



. the fouth of France and Italy, and in great abundance 

 in Sicily. This is an annual plant, which rifes with a 

 firrh, ftrait, channelled ftalk near three feet high, di- 

 vided toward the top into feveral branches, which are 

 garnifhed with hand-fhaped leaves, compbfed 9f five, 

 fix, or "(even oblong lobes, which join in one center 

 at their" bafe, and are hairy. The flowefs are pife^j 

 duced in fpikes at the end of the branches, ftanding ■ 

 half round the ftalk in fort of whorls y they are of a 



. light blue colour, Ihaped like thofe of Peas, and are 

 fucceeded by ftrait tap6r p6ds with onecell, ihclofing 

 a row of roundifii feeds:*^' .This fort flowers in June 



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It is propagated in'tfe borders of the pleafure-garden 



• for orh'amenti'^byTowing the feeds in April, in the 



places where they are to remain V^rid^when the plants 

 >' come tip they ftiould be thinned where they are too 

 . -clofe, and kept clean from weeds, which is all the 

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' The lecond fort has much the appearance of the firft, 

 i. but the ftalks rife higher ; the leaves have more lobes, 

 ..^and ftand upon longer foot-ftalks-v the lobes are 

 /tlunt-pointed, and the feeds are varieigated. Thisre- 

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>The third fort Is the common yellow Lupine, which 

 ihas been long cultivated in the Englijh^^rdcns for 

 '^the fweetnefs of its flowers. ■> This grows naturally in 

 vMirSicily; it rifes"abdut a foot high, with a bVahching 

 ftalk garniflied with hand-fliaped leaves,' compofed 

 ' ■: • ; of nine narrow hairy lobes, which join at their bafe 

 ^" ^ ' to the foot-ftalks ; tnefe are four or fiveincTies lon^ 

 The flowers are yellow, Vnd are produced in looFe 

 c;;^ fpikes at the end of the branches, ftanding in whorls 

 ;round the ftalksV with fpaces between them, termi- 

 nated bj three or four flowers, fitting clofe at the top ; 

 ! thefe are fucceeded by fiattifh hairy pods about two 



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proceeds from the end of the branches ; they are large^ 



and of a beautiful blue colour, but have no fcent. 

 Thefe appear in July, and the feeds ripen in the au- 

 tumn. The pods of this fort arc large, almoft an inch 

 broad, and d^ree inches long, iiiclofing three large 

 roundilh feeds comprelfcd on their fides, very rough, 

 and of a purplifii brown colour. -There is a varietv 

 of this with fielh-coloured flowers, which is com- 

 monly called the Rofe Lupine; it differs from the 

 blue only in the colour of the flower, but this dif- 

 ference is permanent, for neither of the forts vary. 

 This is generally late in ripening the feeds, fo that 

 unlefs the autumn proves warm and dry, they do not 

 ripen ; therefore tlie bcft way to have good ieeds, is 

 to fow thehi in September clofe to a w^arm wall on 

 dry ground, where they will live through our ordi- 

 nary winters; and thefe plants will flower early the 

 following fummer, fo there will be time for the feeds 

 to ripen before the rains fall in the autumn, which 

 frequently caufes the feeds to rot which are not ripe. 

 If a tew of the it^ds of both thefe varieties are fown 

 in fmall pots the beginning of September, and when 

 the frofts begin, the pots are removed into a com- 

 mon hot-bed frame, where they may be protefled 

 from hard froft, but en^py. the free air in mild wea- 

 uther, the plants may be thus fecured in winter^ and 

 . in the fpring they may be fliaken out of the pots, pre- 

 K'^ferving the earth to their roots, and planted in a warm 

 >i border; where they will flower early, and produce 

 i ' 'r t very good feedsi'l^*;'\;. '■ y .-. ■■, -ii-as^ll'-" 

 iiThe fifth fort grows naturally in the Levant, but is 

 ' -cultivated in ibme parts -of ritaly, as other pulfe, for 

 food/i This hath a thick u|)right ftalk aoout two 

 if! feet high, "^hich divides toward the top into feveral 

 -"'^'fmaller hairy branches, garniflied with hand-fliaped 

 7'J. leaves, compofed of feven or eight narrow oblong 

 ! T lobes, which are hairy, and join at their bafe, of a 

 dark grayifli colour," and have a filveiy 36^nft' The 

 flowers are produced in loofe fpijces at the end of the 

 branches -'they are white, and fit clofe to the ftalk ; 

 thefe are f fucceeded by hairy ftrait pods ^bout three 

 inches long, a little coi-npreflTcd on the fides, con- 

 taining five or fix flattifli feeds which are white, hav- 

 ing a little cavity like a navel, in that part which is 



This fort flowers Jn July, and the 



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 rp.^oundifli feeds, a little Qpmpreffed on their fide, of a 

 :^'^ yellowifli white, variegated^ with dark^lpots^ ? This 

 ' ".^fort flowers at the fame time'asUeTormer, Buftohave 



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:!"::; a fucceflion of the flowers, the feeds are fown at dif- 

 ferenrumes, viz. in April, May, and June"; but thofe 

 only, which are firft fown, will npen their feeds, lit 



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The fourth fort is fuppofcd to be "a native of India, 



/^\ii has been many years in the Englifli gardens., jit 

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;. 7f channelled ftalk from three to four feet high, covered 



' ^viwith a foft brpwnifli do\yn, dividing upward into fe- 

 Vei-al ftrong branches, garniflied with hand-fliaped 



nnual plant, 

 t. which is cultivated. for ornament in the pleafure-gar- 

 -' den. The feeds muft be fown in the places where' 

 ' -the plants are to re'mainy and may be treated in the 

 :. fame way as the firft fort;.-'-:;t:-55av ^-i<x.o0>Uf;^ 



t.Thefixth fort grows naturally in yirginidiv^and other 



of the northern parts of Aijierica."^ This hath a per^ 



h, ennial creeping root, from wliich arife feveral ere£t 



"*>. channelled ftalks a foot and a half, high, fending out 



two or three fmall fide branches^, garniflied with 



hand-ftiaped leaves, compofed of ten or eleven nar- 



r- row fpear-fhaped lobes,.,^which join at their, bafe, 



ftanding upon very long foot-ftalks, having "a few 



^ hairs on their^edges. vThe flo wersgro w Hn long loofe 



fpikes, which terminate the ftalks, a'nd are placed 



•^.without order on each fide ;'they are of a pale blue 



-*; colour, having fliort foot-ftalks. j< Thefe appear in 



' V June, and the feeds ripen in Augufl", which are foon 



V Scattered if they are not gadiered when ripe ;*fbr after' 



a little moifture, the fun caufes the pods to op^n with 



an elafticity,' and caft out the feeds to a.diltance all 



round- ''^ This fort is propagated by feeds as the for- 



mcr^ which ifhould be fown vyhere the plants are to re-» 



main* Tor although the "root is perennial, yet it runs 



fo deep into the ground as'^that if cahndt be taken up 



entire ; and if the root is cut or broken, the plane 



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 Ihaped hairy lobes, which d,re narrow at their bafe 

 where they join the foot-ftalk, but enlarge upward, 

 and are rounded at the top where they are broadeft ; 

 the foot-ftalks of the leaves are three or four inches 

 ; long. ;; The Bowers are placed in whorls round the 



ftalks above each other, forming a loofe fpike, which 



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 ? in the ground in one year from feed, aftd fpread 

 ^ but as far on'every fide, fo that they inuft have 

 - foom,--theref6fe,';t1le foung plants fliould not be 

 v: left nearer than three feet afunder. If this plant is 

 in a light dry foil, the roots Vv^ill continue feveral 

 i years, and produce' inany fpikes of flowers ; and al- 

 Hi though the lifual feafoh of flowering is in June and 



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