UJPI'NIJS PEREN'NIS. 
PERENNIAL LUPINE. 
Class. Order. 
MONAnELPHIA. nECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGUMINOS^:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
N. America. 
2 feet. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1658. 
No. 310. 
So greatly did the Lupinus of the ancients spread 
over and spoliate the soil of its nutritions properties, 
that it attained its name from lupus, a wolf. Ano- 
ther derivation was assigned the word, from the Greek 
LUPE, signifying grief; in allusion to some fancied 
medicinal property of the plant, by which it produ- 
ced a sadness of countenance. Perennis, or peren- 
nial, was adopted in contradistinction to the several 
annual species, which were in cultivation more than 
an hundred years with the present plant, before ano- 
ther perennial species was known. And though the 
addition of perennial Lupines to our gardens has ren- 
dered the title objectionable, it was not till the bound- 
less vegetable treasures of America were zealously 
explored, that this took place; whence our collection 
of peremiial Lupines has been increased. Of these, 
many new species have been introduced by the Lon- 
don Horticultural Society, since the year 1825. 
As the Lupinus perennis is sometimes, though not 
frequently, lost, we would recommend its occasional 
increase from seeds. They should be sown in the 
spring ; and a little variation in the colour of some 
flowers of the seedlings will occur. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 285. 
