LUPINUS ORNA'TUS. 
ADORNED LUPINE. 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
LEGOMINOSA2. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Columbia. 
2 feet. 
June, Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1827. 
No. 438. 
The word, Lupinus, has already been explained. 
Ornatus, signifying- ornamented, may, correctly 
enough, be applied to most plants, if it be intended 
to intimate that the flower is an ornament to the 
herb. We know of no peculiar appendage to which 
the appellation alludes. 
Mr. Douglas, who sent seeds of this very beauti- 
ful species of Lupine to the London Horticultural 
Society, found it abundantly in the vicinity of the 
river Columbia, in gravelly, or light dry soils. He 
considered it one of the finest plants of the whole 
genus, an encomium which, from him to whom Eng- 
land owes almost half the Lupines it possesses, is 
some distinction. Its azure flowers, and silvery 
leaves, give it a delicacy which must be admired ; 
still, truth must admit that the fine racemes of flow- 
ers produced by the polyphyllus and some others, 
excel the present in beauty of character. 
The Lupinus ornatus does not increase much at 
the root, but its seeds supply the deficiency. These 
should be planted in April, in a light sandy soil, in 
the open ground, in preference to the hotbed, in 
which the young seedlings frequently damp off. 
Bot. Reg. 1216. 
