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eessile, rounded at the base. Its most remarkable feature is the opposite, united, 

 decurrent stipules, so situated that each pair appears inversely sagittate. Sep. 

 long, hairy. Cor. small, yellow. Sds. few, rattling in the turgid pod. Jl. 



2 C. ovalis Ph. Perennial, hairy, diffuse; Ivs. simple, oval and elliptic, on very 

 short petioles ; slip, few, small or minute, partly decurrent ; pedicels long, 3 to 6- 

 flowered ; cor. longer than the cal. In sandy woods, N. Car. to Fla. and La. Bt 

 strong, fusiform. Sts. annual, 4 to 10 to 12' long, prostrate or assurgent ; Iva. 

 about 1' long. Fls. rather showy and remote, with minute, lanceolate bracts. 

 Pods 1' long, rattling. Ap. Jn. 



3 C. Purshii DC. Perennial; slender, assurgent, nearly smooth; Ivs. simple, 

 oblong-linear or linear, subsessile ; slip, narrowly decurrent through the whole inter- 

 node ; pedicels long, 5 to 7-flowered ; cor. as long as the cal. In damp shades. S. 

 Car. to Fla. and La. Sts. 12 to 18' high. Lvs. 2 to 3' long. Pods much inflated, 

 black, horny, and rattling like the other species when fully ripe. Apr. Jl. 



27. LUPI'NUS, Tourn. LUPINE. (Lat. lupus, a wolf; because it 

 overruns the field and devours its fertility?) Calyx deeply bilabiate; 

 upper lip 2-cleft, lower entire or 3-toothed ; wings united at the sum- 

 mit; keel falcate, acuminate ; stamens monadelphous, the filamentous 

 sheath entire ; anthers alternately oblong and globous ; legume coria- 

 ceous, compressed. Herbs, rarely shrubby. Lvs. palmately 5 to 15 

 foliate, rarely unifoliate. 



1 L. villosus "Willd. Unifoliate, densely silky-tomentous ; sts. decumbent-assur- 

 gent ; Ivs. large, elliptic-oblong, long-petioled ; rac. terminal, long, dense-flowered. 

 A very showy plant in the pine barrens, etc., N. C. to Fla. Plant 1 to 2 f high, 

 remarkably clothed in silky wool, the Ivs. 3 to 5' long, mostly at the base, and 

 the numerous (50 to 100), large, violet, and roseate flowers above them. Pods 

 covered with shaggy wool, oblong, 4 or 5-seeded. Apr., Jn. 



;3 DIFFUSUS T. & G. Somewhat branched at base, and diffuse ; Ivs. shorter 

 (2 to 3'), oval-oblong, obtuse, sofl-silky, but hardly tomentous; pods very 

 silky. Near Savannah, etc. (Feay and Pond.) (L. diffusus Nutt.) 



2 L. perennis L. Minutely pubescent, 5 to 1-foliate ; Ifts. oblanceolate, mucron- 

 ate ; fls. alternate ; calyx without appendages, upper lip emargiuate, lower en- 

 tire. 14 I** sandy woods and hills. Can. to Fla. It is a beautiful plant, cultivated 

 in gardens. It is often called sun-dial, from the circumstance of its Ivs. turning 

 to faca the sun from morning till night. St. erect, soft, smoothish, a foot high. 

 Lvs. soft-downy, on long stalks; Ifts. 1 to 2' by 4 to 6''. lanceolate, broadest 

 above the middle. Fls. blue, varying to white in a terminal spike or raceme. 

 May, Jn. 



3 L. polyph^llus Lindl. Tail, 11 to lo-foliate; Ifts. lanceolate, sericeous 

 beneath ; fls. alternate, in a very long raceme ; pedicels longer than the lanceo- 

 late, deciduous bracts ; cal. ,ebracteolate, both lips subentire ; leg. densely hairy. 

 2f A splendid ornament of the garden from Oreg. St. 3 to 5f high. Rac. a foot 

 or more long. Fls. scattered (subverticillate in /3. grandifolius, Liudl), whiffc, 

 purple, or yellow, in different varieties, f 



4 L. Nootkatensis Bonn. NOOTKA SOUND LUPINE. St. villous, wiiit, 

 long, spreading hairs, 5 to ^-foliate ; Ifts. oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, attenuate 

 nt base, sericeous beneath ; cal. very hairy, both lips nearly entire ; bracts linear, 

 hairy, longer than the calyx. A handsome species from the K". "West Coast, 2 

 to l!f high, in gardens. Fls. purple, f 



5 L. arboreus L. TREE LUPINE. Shrubby; fls. yellow, in whorls; cal. 

 appendaged, lip acute, entire. A handsome exotic shrub, 6f high, with large, 

 yellow fls. f 



O1>M. Several annual species are occasionally sown in pardons, as L. ALHUS, with \vliito fl*. ; 

 L. PII.OSUS, with rose-colored fls. ; L. LUTEUB, with yellow fls. ; and L. HIRSUTUS, with blue s. 

 and an appendaged calyx. 



28. LABUR'NUM, Benth. Calyx campanulatc, bilabiate, upper lip 

 2, lower 3-toothed ; vexillmn ovate, erect, as long as the straight wings; 

 filaments diadelphous (9 & 1) ; legume continuous, tapering to the 



