part purple, below bluish white, parted at the base, and
producing a ear on each side, a little above the base. The
10 Stamens, all united in a tube at the base, and distinct at
the points. Anthers, 5 small round globular ones, and 5
oblong.
This curious hybrid production of Lupine was raised by
C. Marshall (Gardener at Mrs. Langtey’s, Southborough,
Kingston, Surrey,) from the seed of L. lepidus, as we are
informed by him: as the plant is now suffrutescent, and the
habit and foliage being so much like L. tomentosus, that species
must have been the other parent: a plant sent to us,
and which was planted in our garden, has stood the Winter,
without having a leaf injured, and is become quite suffrutes-
cent and bushy, like the male parent. In Mr. Marshall’s
account of it, he says the plant continues in bloom
till the sharp frost sets in, and that it had thirty spikes in
flower on it at one time, from 12 to 18 inches in length, although
it had been moved late in Spring. This plant, when
dormant, produces a knot, at the end of each shoot, and
joint, and up the stem, clothed with leaves; and there can
be no doubt but those would all soon make plants, if taken
off and planted in the ground, so that it will soon become
plentiful.
We have seen flowers of several other curious hybrids of
this genus, sent to us at the same time as the present, and
others in some other collections, particularly in that of
Messrs. Allen and Rogers, Nurserymen, King’s Road, and
Battersea; in the latter Nursery they are chiefly grown;
some of those are very beautiful, and might readily be taken
for real species, if their origin was not properly determined.
For the derivation of the generic name, see folio 12, of
the second series.
1. Calyx. 2 . V ex illum . 3. T h e two wings. 4 . K ee l. 5 . Stamens laid op en , to
show the distinction between them.
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