LUPI'NUS VERSrCOLOR. 
PARTY-COLOURED lUPIXE. 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
EEGUMINOS^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
2| feet. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1825. 
No. 615. 
The meaning of the name Lupinus has been re- 
cently noticed. This species is not unfrequently 
called variegatus in the gardens. 
This, as Dr. Lindley says, is very beautiful 
perennial Lupine, introduced from California by 
the London Horticultural Society, and hitherto but 
little known. It has been called in the society’s 
garden a dwarf Lupinus rivularis; nevertheless the 
affinity of the species seems to be less with rivula- 
ris than with Nootkatensis, for it has nothing of an 
arborescent habit. The decumbent habit of this 
species renders it well suited for a bed in a flower 
garden ; it produces a great profusion of its pale, 
many-coloured flowers, breathing the sweet perfume 
of the field bean, during all the months of May and 
June.” As these are succeeded by abundance of 
seeds, it will, we trust, soon become a better known 
ornament of the English parterre. 
Lupinus versicolor may be increased by division 
of its roots, either in spring or autumn. If raised 
from seeds, they should be sown in April, in the 
open ground ; and one plant only be left in each 
place. It will grow in any common soil. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 2, 368. 
