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The flowers ftand in long, thick fpikes at the 
tops of the ftalks and branches ;/and are mode: 
rately large, and very beautiful; their colour is 
a bright red, and, they have ftreaks. of a pale 
or fiefhy ting. The whole is glofly, like po- 
Jithed coral; and the mixture of colour bears 
fome refemblance to that of the juice and feeds 
of a freth-opened ripe pomegranate, 
Gr ay 
Te is a native of the warm 
and flowers in June. 
G Bauhine calls it Oncbrychis femine clypeato 
afpero mejor. Others, Hedyfarum clypeatum. Our 
Englith name.is very injudicious ; but being that 
by which it is commonly known in gardens; we 
have preferved it. It would be better to call it 
The great fearlet bedyfarum, 
parts of Europe, 
Use oll 
PUPP TN eRe 
Let? od ie GAS. 
MreHE fower is papilionaceous, 
The vexillum is of a roundifh, and fomewhat heart=fathi 
ftruéture, and has the edges compreffed and turned back. Rareatalbioned 
The alee are of an oval fhape, and 
nearly of the length of the vexillum; and they converge in the lower part. The carina is divided 
or fplit at the bottom, and is of ahooked fhape: it is undivided at the end, and is of the length of the 
ala, but narrower. The cup is formed of a fingle piece, 
pod is large, long, and fomewhat flatted; and it contains feveral large roundifh feeds, 
are formed like the fingers of a hand, 
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Common Lupine, 
Lupinus vulgaris caulibus ramofis. 
The root is long, flender, white, and fur- 
nifhed with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in fmall clufters; and aré 
of the fingered fhape, each being compofed of 
about feven’ parts regularly expanded: they aré 
placed on long footftalks, and are of a dufky green. 
The ftalk is round, upright, frm, hairy, of 
a whitifh colour, and confiderably branched : it 
is three feet high. ‘ 
The kaves upon this refemble thofe from the 
root, but they are fitialler: each is compofed of 
about feven narrow parts; and the colour is a pale 
green. ¥ 
The flowers are numerous and large: they 
~ ftand feveral together on fhort footftalks rifing 
Their colour is |, 
from the bofoms of the leaves. 
naturally whites but the skill of our gardeners 
has variegated it in many ways. We fee ftriped 
flowers and double flowers in this fpecies, 
The feed-veffels are long and large; and the 
feeds are broad, and fomewhat flatted. - 
It is a native of Spain; whence it has been 
us with this number of beautiful varieties. Ic 
flowers in July. i A 
C. Bauhine calls ic Lapinus fativus fleré albo. 
2. Blue Lupine. A 
Lupinus flore majore ceruleo. 
The root is long, white, thick, and furnifhed 
with feveral confiderabie fibres. 
The firit leaves are numerous; and. they are 
placed on long, flender footttalks: they are com- 
pofed each of five parts, fpread in the manner 
of fingers; and thefe are oblong, narrow, wide 
afunder, and of a pale green. 
The flalk is upright, round, and of a pale 
gteen: it is not much branched, and is two feet 
and a half high. 
The leaves on this refemble thofe from the 
root ; but they are fmaller, and of a paler green. 
The flowers are placed on long foorftalks rifing | 
lior. 
and is divided only into two fegments, The 
The leaves 
from the bofoins of the leaves, and in a kind of 
fpikes, fix or more growing in a double feries on 
each footftalk : they are-large; and of a beauti- 
ful blue: ; 
Naturally the colour is fimple and unmixed, 
but art has rendered the Aower double and ftriped; 
and we frequently fee it very beautiful in our gar- 
dens, 
It is a native of the fouth of France; where it 
flowers in their corn-fields in July and Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lupinus fylveftris flore. ée+ 
ruleo. Others, Lupinus flore ceruleo majore, Our 
| people, the Blwe lupine. 
3- Small-Aowered Blue Lupine, 
Lupinus anguptifolius flore minore ceruleo, 
~The root is compofed of a long body, and in- 
numerable fine fibres. 
The ftalk is flender, upright; of a pale green, 
anda yard high. 
The leaves are placed on long footftalks; and 
each is compofed of five or fix patts, which are 
flender, fharp-pointed, and of a bluifh green. 
The flowers ftand three or four together, in a 
brouglit into our Gardens, and has there furnithed kind of loofe fpikes, on long footftalks, rifing 
from the bofoms of the leaves ; and they are 
‘fmall, and of a deep blue, inclining to purple. 
This is their natural colour ; but, like the others; 
they admit great Variation from culture. 
The pods are long and large, : 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Lupinus anguftifolius ceruleus ela+ 
Others, Lupinus flore parvo ceruleo, and 
Lupinus procerior ceruleus: 
4. Yellow Lupine. 
Lupinis flore luteo. 
The root is compofed of numerous fpreading 
fibres. : 
. The ftalk is round; upright; of a brownifh 
colour, foft; hairy, and near a yard high. 
The leaves are placed on long footftalks ; and 
each is compofed of about nine parts, fpread in 
the manner of fingers, and of a yellowith green. 
The flowers are placed on. long footftalks in a 
kind. 
