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tudine pedicelloriim, deciduae, pilosissimae. Calyces subalterni, 

 densi pilosi, ebracteolati, labio superiore, ovato, basi saccato, ab- 

 breviate, inferiore ovato, acuminate. Vexillum caeruleum, ob- 

 cordatum, carina imberbi, alisque ernbescentibus. 



A small, slender, perennial species, found by Mr. Douglas 

 in dry, open, gravelly plains, about the great rapids of the River 

 Columbia, where it is very common, forming patches of consid- 

 erable extent, occasionally acquiring a suffruticose habit. 



"The flowers are blue mixed with pink, and, although not 

 equal in appearance to some of the larger species, extremely 

 beautiful: they appear in August and September. Our drawing 

 was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. 



"Grows readily in common garden soil: it has not yet pro- 

 duced seeds; but will increase by division of the root. 



"Stems tufted, slender, pilose, purplish, i-i ^ feet long. 

 Cauline leaves densely pilose; stipulae subulate, very small; leaf- 

 lets 7-9, linear-lanceolate. Racemes lax, stalked; bracteae sub- 

 ulate, the length of the pedicels, deciduous, very pilose. Calyxes 

 somewhat alternate, densely pilose, without bracteolae; the up- 

 per lip short, ovate, entire, with a sort of bag at its base; the 

 lower ovate, acuminate. Vexillum blue, obcordate, with the 

 keel, which is beardless, and the wings pale rose-colour. J. L." 



As may be seen from plate 6, the copy of the illustration in 

 the Botanical Register does not agree, so far as flowers are con- 

 cerned, with the wild specimens. I am inclined to think the 

 artist was at fault. No lupine flower known to me presents an 

 obcordate banner like the illustration, and it is far too broad to 

 agree with the banner of the wild flowers. Dr. Kennedy kindly 

 looked up this species while in England last summer, and in- 

 forms me that the sjiecimen marked "cultivated" could hardly 

 have furnished th^'illustration. 



LuPixrs XAXT'S Dough; Heuth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 11. 409. />l. 

 14. f. 2. 1835. 



Liipinus affijiis Agardh, vS\"nopsis 20. Dec. 1835. 



F'or some time I have suspected that perhaps the plant we 

 ha\-e been calling A. afjfiJiis might not be the species Agardh 



