ORDER 46. LEGUMINOSJE. 31 ! 



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 ; stip. few, small or minute, partly decurrent ; pedicels long, 3 to 6- 

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

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

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

 Pods 1' long, rattling. Ap. Jn. 



3 C. Purskii 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. a,s 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. LUPFNUS, 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. 



/? DIFFUSUS T. & G-. Somewhat branched at base, and diffuse ; Ivs. shorter 

 '(2 to 3'), oval-oblong, obtuse, soft-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. If. In 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 face the sun from morning till night. St. erect, soft, smoothish, a foot high. 

 Lvs. soft-downy, on long stalks; Ifts. \% to 2' by 4 to G", lanceolate, broadest 

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

 May, Jn. 



3 L. polyph^Hus Lindl. Tall, 11 to \Z-foliate; Ifts. lanceolate, sericeous 

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

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

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

 or more long. Fls. scattered (subverticillate in /?. grandifolius, Lindl.), white, 

 purple, or yellow, in different varieties, f 



4 L. Nootkatensis Bonn. NOOTKA SOUND LUPINE. St. viUous, with 

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

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

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

 to 3f 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 



Oi*. Several annual species are occasionally sown in gardens, as L. ALBTJS, -with white fls. ; 

 L. PILOSUS, with rose-colored fls. ; L. LUTEUS, with yellow fls. ; and L. HIRSUTUS, with blue fls. 

 and an appendaged calyx. 



28. LABUR'NUM, Bcnth. Calyx campanulate, bilabiate, upper lip 

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

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



