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3.—LUPINUS BICOLOR, Lindl. THE TWO-COLOURED LUPINE. 
Engraving— Bot. Reg. t. 1109. 
Specific Character. —Stems branched, corymbous, and, as well as 
the leaves, clothed with silky pili. Leaflets 5-—7, linear-spatulate. 
Flowers few, verticillate. Calyx clothed with silky wool, inappendi- 
culate, having the upper lip bifid, and the lower one elongated and 
entire. Wings longer than the vexilluin. Legumes many-seeded.— 
(G. Don.) 
Description, &c.— A very remarkable little lupine, which, from the smallness of its flowers, and their 
peculiar form, scarcely seems to belong to the genus. The standard is smaller than the other petals, and it is 
white, just tinged at the apex with red ; the wings and keel are of a very deep blue. The plant is dwarf and 
bushy, and it produces a constant succession of blossoms from May to October. It is a native of North America, 
where it was found by Douglas in 1836, near the Columbia river, “ always on dry gravelly soils, and especially 
under the shade of trees.” It is quite hardy, and seeds may be had in any seed-shop. 
4.— LUPINUS LUTEUS, Lin. THE YELLOW LUPINE. 
Synonyme.— L. odoratus, Hort. upper lip of the calyx bipartite, lower one tridentate. Leaflets 7—9, 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 149 ; and our fig. 5, in Plate 22. oblong, lower ones obovate. Bracteas ovate, erect.—(G. Don.) 
Specific Character.- —-Flowers verticillate, sessile, bracteolate; 
Description, &c.— The yellow lupine seldom grows above a foot high ; and its flowers, which are of a bright 
golden yellow, smell like cowslips. It is a native of Spain, whence it was first brought to England about 1590. 
Gerard and Parkinson, though they place it among those “ flat beanes, called Lupines,” tell us that, when it 
was first introduced, it was called the Spanish violet, from the resemblance in colour between it and Viola lutea. 
It is, however, of a much brighter and more golden yellow than V. lutea. Seeds of this lupine are abundant in 
all the seed-shops, and the plants produce a very pretty effect if mixed with the Egyptian-white, rose, and dwarf- 
blue lupines. The seeds require no other care in sowing, than to keep them separate, and not to cover them too 
deeply. All kinds of lupine seeds will indeed vegetate, if merely dropped in the soil without any covering ; but 
when planted carefully, the vital knot, from which the root and ascending shoot or plumule are to spring, should 
be turned downwards. The seeds of the yellow lupine are much smaller than those of the other kinds, so this 
mark is less perceptible. If the seeds are sown at a sufficient distance apart, the plants will be low and bushy ; 
but if the seeds are sown thickly the plants will be slender and drawn up. It is best to sow them as they are 
to remain, for pulling up some loosens the roots of the remainder, and they will not bear transplanting. 
5.—LUPINUS MUTABILIS, Sweet. THE CHANGEABLE LUPINE. 
Engravings. —Brit. Flow. Gard. 2nd Ser. t. 139; Bot. Reg. t. 
1539 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2682; and our fig. 1, in Plate 22. 
Variety.— L. in. 2 Cruckshanksii, syn. L. Cruckshanksii, 
Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3056 ; Brit. Flow. Gard ; and our fig. 2, in 
Plate 22. 
Specific Character. —Shrubby, erect, branched. Branches spread¬ 
ing, glaucous, glabrous. Leaflets 7—9, glaucescent and rather pubes¬ 
cent beneath, lanceolate, bluntish. Flowers somewhat verticillate. 
Calyx without bracteoles, upper lip bifid, lower one somewhat keeled, 
acute, entire. — (G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —Perhaps no flower ever better merited the name of changeable than this, as it, and its 
variety L. m. Cruckshanksii , vary in almost every possible shade, between purple, blue, pink, yellow, and white. It 
is a tall vigorous-growing shrub, from three feet to six feet high, and it produces abundance of its large showy 
handsome flowers from June to August. It is a native of Peru, and was introduced in 1819. It may seem 
strange to class a shrubby plant among annuals; but the fact is, as Dr. Lindley very justly observes in the 
Bot. Reg. (new Series, vol. v.) that “ it rises with a rigid woody stem to the height of about three feet, and has 
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