DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 271 
LUNARIA,.—Honesry. 
{From luna, the moon, in allusion to the broad, round, silvery pods or silicles.] 
Lunéria biénnis.—Honesty.—Is an old-fashioned plant, 
flowering the second year from seed, and then dying. It 
produces large purple flowers, in May and June, that are 
succeeded by broad elliptical pods, which, when dry, are 
rather ornamental. 
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LUPINUS,—Lorm. 
{Said to be derived from lupus, a wolf, because this plant devours, as it were, 
all the fertility of the soil.] 
The species are border-flowers, in much esteem for their 
velvet-like leaves and fine large flowers. They are all 
vigorous growing plants some annual, but mostly peren- 
nials. 
Lupinus perénnis.—Wild Lupin.—Is a well-known spe- 
cies, indigenous all over the country; found, frequently, 
in large masses, from a yard to two rods in circumference, 
occupying the very poorest sandy or gravelly arid soil; in 
bloom about the first of June. It is very difficult, or 
even impossible, to transplant, with success, this fine per- 
ennial. The only sure way to propagate it is by seed, 
which should be gathered before it is entirely ripe, as it is 
scattered, as soon as mature, by the sudden bursting of 
the pod, by which the seed is thrown to a considerable 
distance. Nor will it succeed on rich ground; but when- 
ever the seeds are to be sown, the soil should, in the first 
place, be removed, or a greater part of it, from a circle 
the diameter of which is three or four feet, andl the hole be 
filled up with a poor, gravelly or sandy soil, and the seed 
sown in the center. 
The flowers are found, in the wild state, of various 
colors and shades, from pure white (which is rare) through 
