110 FLORA HISTORICA. 



should be sown at three different seasons, that 

 is, in April, May, and June. The best mode of 

 sowing them is by forming small clumps of them ; 

 but they should not be sown too thick, and they 

 seldom succeed when transplanted. The Lupine 

 has a leaf that is termed digitate, which, at night, 

 has the sides contracted and hang down, bending 

 back to the petiole. 



The Lupine appears not to have been familiar 

 to the inhabitants of eastern countries, and hence 

 it is not placed in their language of flowers : we 

 have, therefore, agreeable to its name, and with 

 due submission to the learned students of hiero- 

 glyphics, made it the emblem of voraciousness. 



