bitterböna, fikböna, vargböna

A PASSING GLIMPSE

To Ridgley Torrence
On last looking into his "Hesperides"

I often see flowers from a passing car
That are gone before I can tell what they are.

I want to get out of the train and go back
To see what they were beside the track.

I name all the flowers I am sure they were n't:
Not fireweed loving where woods have burnt—

Not blue bells gracing a tunnel mouth—
Not lupine living on sand and drouth.

Was something brushed across my mind
That no one on earth will ever find?

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
In no position to look too close.

Robert Frost

 ur ”West-Running Brook”

Även om poesi inte är din favoritkost, så kanske du skulle uppskatta att titta på

Julius John Lankes träsnitt, som illustrerar bokens poem.

bitterböna, fikböna, vargböna

Vad man än kallar den så hyser jag den största beundran för den.

Den ger inte upp — inte ens när stjälkens övre del hänger nästan parallellt med dess nedre del.

Nej då, den låter sig inte knäckas, blomställningen ändrar bara riktning, fortsätter att sträva uppåt — och blomma.

 Did you know?

Lupine comes from lupus, Latin for "wolf", and its related adjective lupinus, "wolfish". Lupine groups have a highly organized social structure, with leaders and followers clearly distinguished; dogs, since they're descended from wolves, often show these lupine patterns when living in groups. Stories of children raised by wolves (the most famous being Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome) have generally been hard to prove, partly because "wild" children lack human language abilities and can't describe their experiences. Lupine is also a noun, the name of a well-known garden flower, which was once thought to drain, or "wolf", the soil of its nutrients.

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin lupinus, lupinum, from lupinus, adjective

Adjective

Latin lupinus, from lupus wolf — more at WOLF

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

1660, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of lupine was in the 14th century

Det är alltid bra att vara beredd på det värsta — skulle du drabbas av pest, så vet att det finns bot — i alla fall om man får tro  vad Olai Magni noterade:

”Emot Pest uppgives ett Recept, såsom bepröfwadt. Det består av lika dosis, eller 1/2 unts Aloe hepatits, Canel, Mastix, brändt Hjort-horn, Centaurium minuseller Gentiana, Dictamnus Creticus, bränd Lupin. Detta pulver stött lades i 5 qwarter genom kokning och skumning renad Honung. Af detta Mos tages en nöts storlek på fastande mage i Win.”