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sessile, rounded at the base. Its most remarkable feature is the opposite, united, 

 decurrent stipule^, so situated that each pair appears inversely sagittate. Sep. 

 long, hairy. Cor. small, yellow. Sds. lew, rattling in the turgid pod. Jl. 



2 C. ovalis Ph. Perennial, hairy, diffuse; Ivs. simple, oval and elliptic, on very 

 short petioles ; slip, few, small or minute, partly decurrent ; pedicels long, 3 to 6- 

 flowered ; an: longer than the cal. — In sandy woods, N. Car. to Fla. and La. Et 

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

 about r long. Fls. rather showy and remote, with minute, lanceolate bracts. 

 Pods 1' long, rattling. Ap. — Jn. 



3 C Prirshii DC' Perennial; slender, assurgent, nearly smooth; Ivs. simple, 

 oblong-linear or linear, subsessile ; slip, narrowly deai/rrent through the whole inter- 

 node; pedicels long, 5 to 7-flowered; cor. as long as ike cal. — In damp shades, S. 

 Car. to Fla. and La. Sts. 12 to 18' high. Lvs. 2 to 3' long. Pods much inflated, 

 blaclf, horny, and rattling like the other species when fully ripe. Apr. Jl. 



27. LUPI'KUS, Tourn. Lupine. (Lat. lupiis, a wolf; because it 

 overruns the field and devours its fertility X) Calyx deeply bilabiate ; 

 upper lip 2-cleft, lower entire or 3-toothed ; wings united at the sum- 

 mit; keel falcate, acuminato ; stamens monadelphous, the filanientoust 

 sheath entire ; anthers alternately oblons; and globous ; legume coria- 

 ceous, compressed. — Herbs, rarely shrubby. Lvs. palmately 5 to 15 

 foliate, rarely unifoliate. 



1 L. villosus Willd. Unifoliate, densely silky-toinentous ; sts. decurabent-assur- 

 gent ; lvs. large, elliptic-oblong, long-petioled ; rac. terminal, long, dense-flowered. 

 — A very showy plant in the pine barrens, etc., N. C. to Ma. Plant 1 to. 2 f high, 

 remarkably clothed in silky wool, the lvs. 3 to 5' long, mostly at the base,' and 

 the numerous (50 to 100), large, violet, and roseate flowers above them. Pod^ 

 covered with shaggy wool, oblong, 4 or 5-3eeded. Apr., Jn. 



P DiFFbsus T. & G. Somewhat branched at base, and diffuse ; lvs. shorter 

 (2 to 3'), oval-oblong, obtuse, sofl-silky, but hardly tomentous ; pods very 

 silky. — Near Savannah, etc. (Feay and Pond.) (L. diffusus Nutt.) 



2 L. per^nnis L. Minutely pubescent, 5 to 1-foUate; Ifts. oblanceolate, mucron- 

 ate; fls. alternate; calyx without appendages, upper lip emargiuate, lower en- 

 tire. — y 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 lvs. turning 

 to face the sun from morning till night. St. erect, soft, smoothish, a foot high. 

 Lvs. soft-downy, on long stalks; Ills. IJ to 2' by 4 to 6'', lanceolate, broadest 

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

 May, Jn. 



3 Ii. polyph;^llus Lindl. Tall, 11 to 15-foliate; Ifts. lanceolate, sericeous 

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

 late, deciduous bracts ; cal. ebracteolate, both lips subeniire ; leg. densely hairy. — 

 'H A splendid ornament of the garden from Oreg. St. 3 to 5f high. Eac. a foot 

 or more long. Fls. scattered (suhverticillate in /?. graudifolius, Lindl.), white, . 

 purple, or yellow, in different varieties, f 



I 4 L. Noottat^nsia Donn. Nootka. Sound Lupine. St. villous, irnOi 

 long, spreading hairs, 5 to 5-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 N. West Coast, 2 

 to 3f high, in gardens. Fls. purple, f 



5 L. arbdreus L. Tree Lupine. Shrubby; fls. yellow, in whorls; cal. 

 appendaged, lip acute, entire. — A handsome exotic shrub, 6f high, with large, 

 yellow fls. f 

 Obfi. — Sovoval nnnnnl ppectes nre occasioniiUy sown in pardens, na L. albus, with whito fls.,; 



L. PII.08U8, witli lose-colored lis. ; 1. i.utxu9, with yellow fls. ; ond L. iiiKSUTire, with bluD fls. 



and an appendagod calyx. 



28. LABUR'DUM, Benth. Calyx campanulate, bilabiate, upper lip 

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

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



