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LUPINUS* Sabinianus. 

 Yellow Perennial Lupine. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leovmin'osx Juss. § Papilionaceue Dc Cand. {Introduc- 

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

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



L, Sabi7iianns ; herbaccus, racemis subverticillatis cylindraceis multifloris, 

 floribus cbracteatis, calycc villoso : labio superiore ovato acuto inf'eriore 

 cynibiformi revohito, alis rotundatis vexilli magnitudine, carina acuta, 

 foliolis 7-12 lanccolatis acuniinatis sericeis. 

 L. Sabinianus. Douglas in herb. Hort. Soc. 



Perennis. Caules erecti, 3-pedales, subpuhescentes, parkm ramosi. 

 Folia radicalia olivacea, subpedalia ; stipulis minimis, adnatis, subulatis ; 

 foliolis niimero incertis, 9-12, utrinque prcecipuc s^ibtus sericeis; caulina 

 minora, foliolis pancioribxis . Racemi terminales, in spontaned 8-9 uncias 

 longi, densi, sed subverticillati. Rachis, bractece, pedicellique pubesccntes. 

 Bractea; citissime decidxice, subulatcE, floribus longiores. Flores lutei. Vexil- 

 lum subrotundum, subemarginatum. Alvc oblonga', obtuscp, paulb ventricosce, 

 vexilli magnitudine ; carina acuta, multh angustior, cequilonga, margine 

 superiore leviter ciliato. Stamina 5 longiora, carince fere a'qualia, antheris 

 rotundis ; 5 breviora, antheris linearibus. 



A native of North-west America, where it was found by 

 Mr. Douglas at tlie junction of Lewis and Chirke's River 

 with the Colombia, growing on the subalpine range of 

 mountains. 



It flowered this year, for the first time, in the Garden 

 of the Horticultural Society in May, and has since pro- 

 duced a few seeds. It is, however, a very dithcult plant to 

 manage; it does not grow readily in any soil or situation 

 that has yet been tried, and its racemes of flowers, however 

 beautiful, are by no means so handsome as in its native 



Sccl'ol. 1198. 



