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Most recommendable for mixture in pasturage. L. tenuis (Kitaibel) 

 is a valuable variety of the coasts. The nearly allied L. major 

 (Scopoli) and L. uliginosus (Schkuhr) yield a still greater amount 

 of herbage ; they are particularly suited for bushy and moist 

 localities, and attain their greatest luxuriance on soils, which have 

 some peat in their composition [Lawson]. In Australia Lotus 

 corniculatus shows a decided predilection for wet meadows. 



Lotus tetrag onolobus, Linne. 



Countries on the Mediterranean Sea. Though annual, this herb 

 is highly valued for sheep-pastures. The green pods serve even as 

 a culinary vegetable. The allied L. siliquosus (Linne) is perennial, 

 and occurs in a succulent form on sea-coasts. The seeds will retain 

 their vitality for several years. 



Xioxopteryg-ium Ziorentzii, Grisebach. 



La Plata-States. The bark and wood, called Quebrachd Colorado, 

 extensively used for tanning ; latterly much exported to Europe. 

 The length of time for the tanning process with this bark is only 

 half that for oak-bark. The kino of this tree has come into 

 therapeutic use. 



ZiUpinuB albus, Linne. 



The White Lupine. Countries on the Mediterranean Sea, also 

 in the Orient. An annual quick-growing herb, valuable when 

 young for fodder, and also for green manure. In Norway it will grow 

 to lat. 70 22 ; north [Schuebeler]. It is famed as the "Tramoso" 

 in Portugal, to suppress sorrel and other obstinate weeds by its 

 close and easy growth. The lentil-like seeds, after the bitter 

 principle (lupinin) has been removed through boiling or soaking in 

 salt-water, are edible. It would lead too far, to enumerate here 

 many others of the numerous species of lupines, of which 

 unquestionably very many are eligible for agrarian purposes, while 

 all are acceptable as hardy, elegant and easily grown garden- 

 plants. One, L. perennis, L., extends in America to the Northern 

 States of the Union and Canada ; fourteen are recorded from 

 South-Europe, seventeen from Brazil, and numerous species from 

 other parts of America, where the limits of the genus are about 

 Monte Video southward and about Nootka- Sound northward. 

 The majority of the species are perennial. The Egyptian L. 

 Termis (Forskael) and L. Graecus (Boissier) are closely allied to L. 

 albus, and of equal use ; their flowers are bluish or blue. 



Xiupinus ang-ustifolius, Linne. 



Countries on the Mediterranean Sea. An annual blue-flowered 

 species, preferable to L. luteus for grain-harvest. Hardy to lat. 70 

 in Norway, Some if not all lupines can be counted among 

 honey-plants. 



