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Edwards, John, b. 1742 / A select collection of one hundred plates: consisting of the most beautiful, exotic and British flowers which blow in our English gardens: accurately drawn and coloured from nature, with their botanic characters, and a short account of their cultivation, their uses in medicine, with the Latin and English names
(1775)

[Lupine],   pp. 20-Plate 40 ff.


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    THIs Genus of Plants is ranged in the firif Setic 
the Herbs with an anamulous Flower, of feveral P 
Capfule. Dr. Linnxeus places it in the fixth Seaio 
MoNoGAMIA, which includes thofe Plants whofe 
their*Summits connedted. 
    THE Specie reprefented here is, 
    VIoLA caule triquetro diffufo, foliis oblongis d 
cornered, diffufed Stalk, oblong indented Leaves, 
tricolor hortenfis repens. C. B. P. 199. Cteeping 
Hearts-eate, or Panties. 
   THIS'Sort is the Hearts-eafe or Pantie, which gro 
 Englond, is generally cultivated in Gardens. Thi 
 they have perfe~ted their Seeds. The lower Leaves 
 Edges; the Stalks rife feven or eight Inches high, fe 
 cornered, and are garnifhied with Leaves which are 
 notched on their Edges, and fit clofe to the Branches 
 which Spring from the Wings of the Stalk; they are 
 of the Varieties have Flowers much larger, and othe 
 have the two upper Petals of a deep yellow C01our, 
 paler yellow with a deep yellow Spot, and the lowe 
 are white with yellow and purple Spots ; in fome t 
 others the Purple. Mill. Gard. Did. 
                                 P L h T 
    Lupinus. Tourn, In/l. R. H,I 39 . Tab, 413. Lip 
    THE CharaaersAre, 
    THE Empalement A is bifid, and of one Leaf; 
B, is roundifh, Heart-fhaped, indented at the top 
Wings C, are nearly oval, and almoft as long as the 
at their Bafe; the KIeel D, is as long as the Wings, 
hath ten Stamina, E, joined at their Bafe in two Bo& 
by five oblong Summits. In the Center is fituated 
fupporting a tifing Style, G, terminated by an obt 
large, oblong," thick fhelled Pod, as H, with one C 
roundiflh comprefled Seeds, as G. 
    THIS Genus of Plants is ranged in the fecond Se 
the Herbs with a Butterfly Flower, whofe Pointal b 
places it in the third Sedion. of his feventeenth Clafs, 
ten Stamina joined in two Borders. 
    TH Specie reprefented here is, 
    LuPINus calycibus verticilatis appendiculatis, 1 
499. Lupine. with Whorl-fhaped Empalements, hav 
entire. This is the Lupinus peregrinus major, v 
greater, hairy Lupine,, with a large blue Flower, Coon 
    THIs Sort is fuppofed to be a native of India, and 
an annual Plant, which rifes with a ftrong, firm, 
covered with a foft brownifh Down, dividing upwar 
with Hand-fhaped Leaves, compofed of nine, ten o 
barrow at their Bafe, where they join the Foot Stalk 
where they are broadeft; the Foot Stalks of the Lear 
placed in Whorls round the Stalks above each other, 
end of the Branches; they are large and of a beautift 
in Yuýyand the Seeds ripen in Autumn. There is a' 
is commorly called the Rofe Lupine, it differs from 
this Difference is permanent, for neither of the Sorts 


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