100 PULSK FAMILY. 



1. LUPINUS, LUPINE. (Old Latin name, from lupus, a wolf, because 



Lupines were thought In destroy the fertility of the soil.) 



# \Vilil s/>ir/<-s of Atlniitii Stuti*, in siniili/ soil : .//. in S]trin;j. 2/ 



L. perermis, WILD L. Somewhat hairy ; with erect stem 1- U high, 

 7-11 s]i:itnl;ite oblong <>r ol(hinee<il;ite green leallets, and a long raceme of 

 showy purplish-blue (rarelv pale) Mowers, in late .spring. 



L. vil!6sUS, < >XI:-LK \\ i i> L. Silky-downy, with short spreadiu'_' or 

 Ascending stems, oblong or lance-oblong simple ]ea\e-, and a dense raceme oi 

 blue, purple, or rose-colored flower-. .Near the coast. fn>m .North Carolina S. 



# * Cultivated for <irn<nntnt : .// sunum r 



L. polyphyllus, MANV I.I.\\M> L., is the principal hardv perennial 

 species of tlie gardens, from Oregon and California, 3 - 4 hi-li, rather hairy, 

 with 13-1") lanceolate or ohlanecolatc leallets, and a very long dense raceme 

 of liluc, sometimes purple, variegated, or even white (lowers, in June. If. 



L. mutabilis, cult. as an animal, from South America, i- tall, verv smooth 

 throughout, with aliout 9 narrow-oblong hlunt leallets, and very large swect- 

 scented violct-]iurplc dowers (or a white variety), with yellow ami a little red 

 on the standard. 



Ii. densiflbrUS, of California (where there are many line Lupines), l-2 

 hi<^h, is well marked by the numerous white flowers forming distinct and sep- 

 arate whorls in the long raceme. (T) 



L. albus, of En., which the ancients cultivated as pulse, has the -everal 

 obovate-oblong leaflets smooth ahove, hut hairy licneath, white (lowers alternate 

 in the raceme, and lar^e smooth pods. (T) 



L. hirSUtUS, cult, in old gardens, from Eu., is clothed with soft white 

 hairs; the leaflets. spatulate-olilon.Lr ; (lowers in loose whorls in the raceme, Klue, 

 with rose-color and white varieties ; pods very hairy. (V) 



L. luteUS, the old YJ.I.I.OW L. of the -anlens, from Eu., silky-hairy, 

 rather low ; with yellow (lowers in whorls crowded in a dense spike. i 



2. CROTALA.RIA, KATTLEW >X. (From Creek word for a niftl, . the 

 seeds raitlmv, ill the coriaceous inflated pod.) Native, in sandy soil : fl. yel- 

 low, in summer. 



C. sagittalis. Low, .V-fi' lii.uh, hraucliiug. Keset with rusty-c-olored 

 sjnvadiug hairs, with nearly ses-ile o\ al or lancc-ohlong leaves, and 2 or 3 flowers 

 on the peduncle. i 



C. OValiS. Spreading, rou-h \\ith appre-~ed hair-; leaves short-jietioled, 

 oval, ohlimg, or lanceolate ; peduncle with 3-6 scattered flowers. 2/ 



3. GENISTA, WOAD-WAXKN, WHIN. (Celtic word : little bush.) 



G. tinct6l*ia, DYER'S \Y. or (ii;i:KX-WKi:i>. Nat. from En. in sterile 



soil E.. especially in .Mass. : low and iindershrnliliy. not thorny, with lanceolate 

 |ea\es, and liri-ht yellow rather small flowers somewhat ratvmed at the end of 

 the striate-angled ^reen hranchcs, in early summer. 



4. CYTISUS. (Ancient Creek name, after an Maud where it grows.) 

 The following are the only species -enerally cultivated. 



C. (or Sarothamnus) scoparius, SMIKH r.n.x.M. shruh, from 



lOurope, 3 - 5 high, smooth, with lon^ and (oiiLih erect augh-d and -n-cn 

 liranc-lies, lieariii" small leaves, the |o\\er .-hort-petiolcd and with 3 ohovate 

 leaflets, the upper of a sin-le sessile leaflet, and in the axils lar_;e and showy 



golden yellow flowers on slender pedicels ; calyx with _' short and In-oad lips; 

 stxlc and stamens slender, held in the keel, hut di-eii-aued and suddenly start- 

 ing upward when touched (as when heo alight on the dellexed keel), the style 

 roiling spirally ; pod hairy on the cd-es. Hardy in pirden- N. ; running wild 

 in Virginia : ll. earlv summer. 



\\i\~n I'.KUDM. so" called, hut is from I'ortiiLral, is another species, not hardy 

 here. Sr\\isii r.i.-odM i-i SCUMIIM JUNCEUM, of another genus. 



C. Canai'i6nsis, from the Canar\ I-lands, is cultivated in conservatories; 

 a shruh with crowded slender branches, -oft -hoary leaxes of 3 very small ohovate 

 Wallets, and -mall \ellow swect-s.-enti-d flowers, produced all winter. 



