LUPI'NUS MEXICA N US. 
MEXICAN LUPINE. 
Class. Order. 
MONODELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
leguminosa;. 
Native of 
Heio^ht. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
2 feet. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1819. 
No. 366. 
The derivation of Lupinus has been recently no- 
ticed. This plant was published, several years ago, 
in the Botanical Register, having been introduced 
from Mexico to the Botanic Garden of Madrid, 
whence seeds of it were sent to England. Its habit 
being at first unknown it was soon lost, but in these 
days of research, in every quarter of the globe, such 
losses generally meet a speedy reparation. To the 
personal exertions, and also the pecuniary liberality, 
of men of science and fortune, these advantages are 
principally owing. Many botanists, however, in fo- 
reign countries are now uholly or partly employed, 
by English nurserymen, to send new and rare plants 
to England; therefore, every customer of the nurse- 
ryman is an indirect subscriber to the great object 
of exploring remote corners of the globe. 
A Lupine which is often considered the Mexica- 
nus, is the tomentosus. A prominent difference ex- 
ists in their pubescence; the Lupinus Mexicanus is 
clothed with long soft hairs, whilst those of the to- 
mentosus are short and close, as its name implies. 
Forward the young plants in a hotbed, or they 
may flower too late to ripen their seed. 
