it. n. 64._ _Ait. Hort.
Kew. v. 2. p. 425._

GERANIUM bicolor. _Jacq. Hort. 3. p. 23. t. 39._ _Cavan. diss. 4.
p. 248. t. 111. f. 1._

In every numerous tribe of plants, many of the species approach so near
to each other, that there is much difficulty in distinguishing them;
this objection cannot be urged against the present plant, which
obviously differs from all the others of the same genus in the
particular shape of its leaves and the colour of its blossoms, the
latter are usually of a rich and very dark purple edged with white, from
whence we apprehend it takes its name of _bicolor_; the colours however
are scarcely distinct enough to justify such a name.

Mr. AITON informs us in his _Hort. Kew._ that this very ornamental
species was introduced in the year 1778, by JOHN, the late Earl of BUTE,
but of what country it is a native, does not appear to be ascertained.

Our drawing was made from a plant in the collection of Messrs. GRIMWOOD
and Co. Kensington, with whom it flowers from June to August.

It is not disposed to ripen its seeds, nor is it very readily increased
by cuttings.

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LUPINUS PERENNIS. PERENNIAL LUPINE.

_Class and Order._

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 2-labiatus. _Antherae_ 5, oblongae 5, subrotundae. _Legumen_
coriaceum.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

LUPINUS _perennis_ calycibus alternis inappendiculatis: labio
superiore emarginato; inferiore integro. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed.
14. Murr. p. 655._ _Ait. Kew. v. 3. p. 28._

LUPINUS calycibus alternis, radice perenni repente. _Fl. Virg.
172._

LUPINUS caeruleus minor perennis virginianus repens. _Moris. hist.
2. p. 87. s. 2. t. 7. f. 6._

LUPINUS floribus caeruleis inodoris, in spicas longas digestis,
radice reptatrice. _Clayt. n. 779._

Every species of Lupine described in the _Species Plantarum_ of LINNAEUS,
and in the _Hortus Kewensis_ of Mr. AITON, except the one here figured,
are annuals; till another perennial one therefore shall be discovered,
the term _perennis_ will be strictly applicable to the present plant.

Its root is not only of the kind just mentioned, but creeping also; Mr.
_Miller_ informs us, that he traced some of them belonging to plants of
a year old, to the depth of three feet, they also spread out far and
wide; hence the roots even of young plants are with difficulty taken up
entire, and as t