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not convey any pleasant idea to the mind of a casual observer, as they look as though the plant were suffering 
from want of water. The flowers also are of rather a dingy reddish-purple, and have nothing particular to 
recommend them. The plant is a “ native of Mexico, whence seeds were sent to the Horticultural Society by 
Dr. Deppe in 1831.” The seeds, which the plants ripen freely, may he procured at any seed-shop ; and if they 
are sown in the open air in April, the plant will flower in June. 
9.—LUPINUS DENSIFLORUS, Benth. THE DENSE-FLOWERED LUPINE. 
Engraving. —Bot. Reg. t. 1689. 
Specific Character. —Pilose, stems ascending from a leafy base ; 
leaflets 7—9 oblong-spathulate. Flowers disposed in whorls consisting 
of from 6 to 10 each, placed very closely together, liairy ; pedicels 
bracteate ; upper lip of the calyx membranaceous and bipartite, lower 
lip twice as long, tridentate, pilose. Legumes covered with scattered 
hairs.— {Lind.) 
Description, &c.— A very beautiful and remarkable little plant. The stem does not grow above six or 
seven inches high, and the flower-stalk rises from a rich tuft of leaves, each of which consists of nine leaflets covered 
with fine soft hairs. The flowers are white, delicately tinted with pink, and at the base of the standard of each 
is a little yellow stain, on which are a few black spots. The flowers grow in distinct whorls, but are placed very 
closely together in each whorl. It is a native of California, and was sent home by Douglas in 1834, but as it 
produces very few seeds, it is still rare. Seeds may, however, be procured of the principal seedsmen, and, like 
those of all the Californian annuals, they may be sown at any season when the ground is not hard with frost, 
with the certainty of their flowering, if the weather should be open, in a few weeks. 
OTHER SPECIES OF LUPINE. 
Of the following kinds there is so little to be said, that we have not thought it worth while to give all their 
botanical details. We shall, however, speak of them more fully than we generally do in similar cases, as we 
believe seeds of most of them are to be procured in all the London seed-shops, and as they are common in our 
flower-gardens. 
L. TENUIS, For sic., syn. L. PROLIFER, Des. THE EGYPTIAN LUPINE. 
A very handsome plant, growing from one to two feet high, with large white flowers, having the standard 
beautifully tipped with blue. This species only differs botanically from L. alius in having bracteolcs and only 
five or six leaflets, whereas L. alius has no bracteoles and seven or eight leaflets. It is a native of Egypt, and 
was introduced in 1802, but we do not know where seeds are now to be procured. The flower-stalks of this plant 
when peeled, are eaten raw by the Arabians, and the seeds are boiled as a substitute for peas or beans. 
L. VARIUS, L. ; syn. L. SEMI-VERTICILLATUS, Des. ; L. SYLVESTRIS, var. Lam. THE LESSER BLUE LUPINE. 
This is a tall strong-growing plant, generally three feet high, with small blue flowers. It only differs 
botanically from L. tenuis in having the upper lip of the calyx bidentate instead of entire, and the leaflets some¬ 
what lanceolate instead of oblong. It is a native of the south of Europe and Egypt, and was introduced before 
1596. It is very nearly allied to L. hirsutus. 
L. PILOSUS, Lin. THE ROSE LUPINE. 
This also is very nearly allied to L. hirsutus , and indeed Miller considered it only a variety of that species. 
Subsequent botanists have made it a distinct species on account of the lower lip of its calyx being entire, whereas 
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