100 PULSE FAMILY. 



1. LITPINUS, LtrPINE. (Old Latin name, from lupus, a wolf, because 

 Lupines were thought to destroy the fertility of the soil.) 



# Wild species of Atlantic States, in sandy soil: fl. in spring. ■ % 



L. per^unis. Wild L. Somewhat hairy ; with erect stem 1° - 1^° high, 

 7-11 spatnlate oblong or oblanceolate green leaflets, and a long raceme of 

 showy purplish-blue (rarely pale) flowers, in late spring. 



L. vill6sus, One-leaved L. Silky-downy, with short spreading or 

 ascending stems, oblong or lance-oblong simple leaves, and a dense raceme of 

 blue, purple, or rose-colored flowers. Near the coast, from North Carolina S. 

 # # Cultivated for ornament : fl. summer. 



L. polyph^llus, Many LEAVED L., is the principal hardy perennial 

 species of the gardens, from Oregon and California, 3° - 4° high, rather hairy, 

 with 13-15 lanceolate or oblanceolate leaflets, and a very long dense raceme 

 of blue, sometimes purple, variegated, or even white flowers, in June. ^ 



Ii. 'mut^bilis, cult, as an annual, from South America, is tall, very smooth 

 throughout, with about 9 narrow-oblong blunt leaflets, and very large sweet- 

 scented violet-purple flowers (or a white variety), with yellow and a little red 

 on the standard. 



Ii. densiflbrus, of California (where there are many fine Lupines), l°-2° 

 high, is well marked by the numerous white flowers forming distinct and sep- 

 arate whorls in the long raceme. 



Ii. ^Ibus, of Eu., which the ancients cultivated as pulse, has the several' 

 obovate-oblong leaflets smooth above, but hairy beneath, white flowers alternate 

 in the raceme, and large smooth pods. ® 



Xi. hirstltus, cult, in old gardens, from Eu., is clothed with soft white 

 hairs ; the leaflets spatnlate-oblong ; flowers in loose whorls in the raceme, blue, 

 with rose-color and white varieties ; pods very hairy. (T) 



L. Idteus, the old Yellow L. of the gardens, from Eu., silky-hairy, 

 rather low ; with yellow flowers in whorls crowded in a dense spike. ® 



2. CROTALARIA, RATTLEBOX. (Erom Greek word for a rattle, the 

 seeds rattling in the coriaceous inflated pod. ) Native, in sandy soil : fl. yel- 

 low, in summer. 



C. sagitt^lis. Low, 3' -6' high, branching, beset with rusty-colored 

 spreading hairs, with nearly sessile oval or lance-oblong leaves, and 2 or 3 flowers 

 on the peduncle. ® 



C. OT^liS. Spreading, rough with appressed hairs ; leaves sbort-petioled, 

 oval, oblong, or lanceolate ; peduncle with 3-6 scattered flowers. IJ. 



3. GENISTA, WO AD- WAXEN, WHIN. (Celtic word: little bush.\ 

 G. tinctdria, Dyek's W. or Geeen-weed. Nat. from Eu. in sterile 



soil E., especially in Mass. ; low and undershrubby, not thorny, with lanceolate 

 leaves, and bright yellow rather small flowers somewhat racemed at the end of 

 the striate-angled green branches, in early summer. 



4. CYTISTJS. (Ancient Greek name, after an island where it grows.) 

 The following are the only species generally cultivated. 



C. (or SarotMmnus) seopiirius, Scotch Broom. Shrub, from 

 Europe, 3° -5° high, smooth, with long and tough erect angled and green 

 branches, bearing small leaves, the lower short-petioled and with 3 obovate 

 leaflets, the upper of a single sessile leaflet, and in the axils large and showv 

 golden yellow flowers on slender pedicels ; calyx with 2 short and broad lips"; 

 style and stamens slender, held in the keel, but disengaged and suddenly start- 

 ing upward when touched (as when bees alight on the deflexed keel), the style 

 coiling spirally ; pOd hairy on the edges. Hardy in gardens N. ; running wild 

 in Virginia : fl. early summer. 



Irish Broom, so called, but is from Portugal, is another species, not hardy 

 here. Spanish Broom is Spartium junceum, of another genus. 



C. Canari^nsis, from the Canary Islands, is cultivated in conservatories ; 

 a shrub with crowded slender branches, soft-hoary leaves of 3 very small obovate 

 leaflets, and small yellow sweet-scented flowers, nroduced all winter. 



