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LUPINUS^ micranthus. 

 Small-flowered Lupine. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminosje. 



LUPINUS. — Suprd,vol. Vi. fol. 1096. 



L. micranthus ; annuus, floribus subverticillatis sessilibus bracteolatis, calycis 

 labio superiore bifido : inferiore integro, foliolis 5-7, lineari-spatulatis 

 ciliatis, leguminibus 6-spermis transversim sulcatis, caule ramoso, radi- 

 cibus granulatis. — Douglas. 



Annuus. Radix fibrosa, tuberculis carnosis, verruciformibus. Caulis 

 erectus, ramosus, subpedalis, pilis brevibus albis pubescens. Folia digitata ; 

 stipulis subulatis, foliolis 5-7, lineari-spatulatis, suprd glabris, subths pilosis, 

 ciliatis, carnosis, circiter 3 quartas uncice longis. Flores subverticillati, 

 pauci, sessiles. Bractese subulatcB, pilosce, foliis atriores. Calyx sericeus, 

 labio superiore bifido, inferiore integro. Vexillum ovatum, cceruleum, medio 

 album, maculis 2-4ue nigris parallelis. Alee oblongce, vexillo cequales. 

 Carina falcata, acuta. Legumen lineari-ob long urn, transverse sulcatum, 

 5-6-spermum. Semina magna, fusca, grisea, nebulosa. — Douglas. 



If this is not to be compared in point of beauty with 

 such fine species as L. perennis, ornatus, and others, which 

 have been already figured in this work from Mr. Douglas's 

 collections, it is nevertheless interesting as an addition to 

 the number of species of annual Lupines. 



According to Mr. Douglas, this has much affinity with 

 Lupinus bicolor, published at fol. 1109 of this work, from 

 which it differs in being more slender, and in flowering 

 from four to six weeks earlier. It is more particularly to 

 be distinguished from that species by the shortness of its 

 alee, its nearly sessile flowers, fleshy leaves, granulated 

 roots, larger pods, and the colour and size of the seeds. 



* See fol. 1198. 



