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stantly be kept in the pots, to be protected in 

 the winter season. 



LOVAGE. See LlGUSTICUM. 



LOVE-APPLE. See Solanum Lycoper- 

 sicum. 



LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING. See Amaran- 



THUS CORDATOS. 



LUNARIA, a genus containing plants of 

 the herbaceous annual and perennial kinds. 



It belongs to the- class and order Tetradyna- 

 mia SilicuTosa, and r.mks in the natural order 

 of Siiiqnosce or Crut J' rmes. 



The character^ are : that the calyx is a four- 

 Jeavcd perianthium, oblong: leaflets ovate-ob- 

 long, blunt, converging, deciduous, of which the 

 two alternate ones are gibbous and bagged at 

 the base : the corolla four-petalled, cruciform : 

 the petals entire, blunt, large, the length of 

 the calyx, ending in claws of the same length : 

 the stamina have six awl-shaped filaments ; four 

 the length of the calyx, two a little shorter: 

 anthers from upright, spreading : the pistillum 

 is a pedicelled germ, ovate-oblong: style short : 

 stigma blunt, entire: the pericarpium is an el- 

 liptic silicic, flat, entire, upright, very large, 

 pedicelled, terminated by the style, two-celled, 

 two-valved : partition parallel and equal to the 

 valves, flat : the seeds some kidney-shaped, 

 compressed, marginal, in the middle of thesili- 

 cle : the receptacles filiform, long, inserted into 

 the lateral sutures. 



The species cultivated are: 1. L. redirha, 

 Perennial Honesty ; 2. L. annua, Annual Ho- 

 nesty, Moor-wort, or Satin-flower ; 3. L. 

 ASgyptiaca, Egyptian Honesty. 



The first is a very large plant : the root is 

 perennial, white: stem from three to four feet 

 high, upright, simple, channelled, green tinged 

 with purple, hirsute : the lower leaves op- 

 posite; upper alternate, on long petioles, smooth 

 or rough-haired, cordate, unequally serrate, 

 nerved, acuminate, near a span long, and three 

 or four inches wide: the flowers terminating, 

 on long slender peduncles, often bilid and 

 tririd, of a white purple colour, and odorous. 

 They have two glands on each side between the 

 longer stamens and the style, and one between 

 the style and each shorter stamen, which ac- 

 counts for the bagging of the perianthium. It 

 is a native of the South of France, &C. 



The second specie* has a biennial, knobbed 

 root: the stem smaller than the first; upright, 

 branched, hirsute, round, half a yard high : the 

 - are rough haired, the floral ones almost 

 always opposi : stem-leaves petioled, 



much smaller than those of the first sort, cordate, 

 dull green, and serrate : the flowers are of a pur- 

 plish violet <>r blue-purple colour, and inodorous. 



Tt is a native of Germany. Roth these species 

 flower in May and June. 



The seed-vessels, when fully ripe, become 

 transparent, and of a clear sinning white like 

 satin ; whence the name of Satin-flower. 



The third is an annual plant, with a smooth 

 branching stalk little more than a foot high : 

 the leaves are uuequally pinnate: lea-le's differ- 

 ing in size and form ; some almost entire, 

 others cut at their extremities into three parts ; 

 they are smooth, and of a lucid green : the 

 tlowers stand each upon pretty long slender pe- 

 duncles, which come out from the side, and 

 also at the end of (he tjranches, in loose small 

 clusters; thev are of a purple colour, and are 

 succeeded bv oblong compressed pods, which 

 hang downward, and when ripe arc of a feuille- 

 mort colour. It is a native of Egypt, flower- 

 ing here, in June and July. 



Culture. — These plants may be raised by 

 sowing the seed in a shady border, or, which is 

 better, in patches in the situations where they 

 are to remain, in the autumn, keeping the plants 

 afterwards propcrlv thinned out and free from 

 weeds. They may likewise be sown in the 

 early spring; but the former is the belter sea- 

 son, as the plants rise stronger. The last sort 

 should have an open situation. When sown in 

 beds, the perennial sort should be set out where 

 they are to remain, in the following autumn 

 after being sown. 



They all afford ornament and variety in the 

 borders and clumps of pleasure-grounds, in 

 which the first sort should be placed more 

 backward. 



LUPINUS, a genus containing plants of the 

 hardy herbaceous annual and perennial flowery 

 kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order Diadrlphia 

 Decandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 PapUUmacece or Leguminosas, 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, bifid : the corolla papilio- 

 naceous : banner cordate-roundish, emarginate, 

 bent back at the sides, compressed: wing 

 subovatc, almost the length of the banner, 

 not fastened to the keel, converging below : 

 keel two-parted at the base, sickle-shaped up- 

 wards, acuminate, entire, the length of the 

 wings, narrower: the stamina have ten fila- 

 ments, united, somewhat ascending, distinct 

 above: anthers li\e, roundish, and as many 

 oblong: the pistillum is an awl-shaptd germ, 

 compressed, rillose : style awl-shaped, ascend- 

 ing : stigma terminating, blunt : the peri- 

 carpium is a large legume, oblong, coriaceous, 

 compressed, acuminate, one-celled: tliff PCcdl 

 several, roundish and comprtsscd. 

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