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LUPINUS* mutabilis. 

 Changeable Lupine. 



DIADELPHTA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. LeguminoSjE Juss. § Papilionacese De Cand. {Introduc- 

 tion to the natural system of Botany, p. 87.) 

 LUPINUS.— Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1096. 



L. mutabilis ; caule erecto suffruticoso, foliolis 7-9 oblongis obtusis basi 

 angustatis subtus sericeis, floribus subverticillatis, calycibus subebrac- 

 teatis bipartitis : labio inferiore longiore acuminate-, superiore emarginato, 

 carina glaberrima. 



L. mutabilis. Sweet Brit, fiower-gard. 130. 



A very handsome plant, first raised in this country by 

 the late Mr. Barclay, from seeds obtained from Santa Fe 

 de Bogota. It rises with a rigid woody stem to the height 

 of about 3 feet, and has all the appearance of an arborescent 

 species ; but as the frost always destroys it, and it flowers 

 and fruits the first year of being raised from seeds, it is for 

 our gardens a mere annual. 



In some respects it is very variable. The first speci- 

 mens that appeared in Mr. Barclay's Garden, of which we 

 possess one, had the stems covered with long dense hairs, 

 and the leaflets exceedingly blunt ; but as we now find it, 

 the hairs of the stem have disappeared, the leaves are more 

 acute, and the flowers much more regularly verticillate. 



Had it not been for the absence of almost all trace of 

 bractese upon the calyx, we should have suspected this to 

 be the same as L. paniculatus. It is, however, probably a 

 distinct species, native of the same country. 



See fol. 1198. 



