Linum.] LINE-dS, 



105 



in Frank!, 1st Joum. ed. 2. App. p. 18. cum descr. — C. glutinosum. Nvtt, Gen, v. 1. p. 

 291. (non Hunib.) — C. longipedunculatum. MuhL Cat p, 47. — /3» vestitum; ubique pilis 

 longis mollibus albis arachnoideis tectum. 



Hab. a. From Canada to lat. 58°, and from Hudson's Bay to the elevated vallies of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. Dr, Richardson ; Drummond; Douglas. Common in North -West America, where the timber has 

 been destroyed by fire. Douglas, (i. About Lake Winipeg. Diiimmond, — Annual. This is amongst the 

 tallest of the genus, a foot high, very erect ; in young plants the flowers are few and somewhat umbelled ; the 

 old plants bear large and many-flowered />aniWes. The leaves are often two inches and more long. Var. p. is 

 very remarkable for the loose cobwebby down which covers the whole plant; but as the specimens thus 

 clothed oi'e, though in flower, evidently young, it is probable that this additional covering disappears in age. 

 All our specimens are, indeed, more or less densely clothed with down. 



9. C, rigidum; hirsutum, caule erecto inferne simplicissimo apice dichotomo, foliis 

 oblongis acutis, pedunculis elongatis, sepalis lanceolatis acutis, petalis bifidis calyce 

 longioribus, capsulis oblongis nitidis calyce duplo et ultra longioribus. DC, — " Ltdeh, 

 Mem, Acad. Petersh, p. 514-. n. 25." De Cand, Prodr, v. 1. p, 420. Cham, et SchlecM. in 

 LinncBay v. I, p, 62. 



Has. Unalaschka. Chamisso. — According to L^ebour, this plant grows to a height of nearly two feet, 

 is erect, rigid, everywhere clothed with patent rigid hairs, and inhabits Siberia. Chamisso says that his 

 Unalaschka specimens are similar, but smaller. 



10, C, Beeringianum ; hirtum, superne viscosum, caullbus inferne caespitosis, superne 

 strictis erectis elongatis oligophyllis, foliis oblongis subacutis, floribus dein cernuis, 

 sepalis ellipticis acutis, petalis et capsulis calyce sesc^uilongioribus. Cluim, et ScJdecht in 

 Linncea^ v, 1. p, 62. 



Hab. In the Bay of Eschscholtz. 



Obd. XVI. LINE^. De Cand. 



1, LINUM, Linn. 



Flores proportione partium quinaria. Sepala Integra. Styli rarissime 3, cum petalis 

 staminibus sepalisque 5. DC. 



Floribus Jlavis, 



m 



1. L. rigidum; annuum, caule superne ramosissimo acute angulato, foliis linearibus 

 alternis rigidis marginibus scabris, floribus paniculatis, calycibus ovato-lanceolatis acu- 

 minatis capsula globosa longioribus bracteisque marginibus aculeato-serratis glandulosis. 



?and. Prodr. v, I. p. 424. Torre^ in PL of Eocky 

 Mount, p. 171.— L. striatum. Nutt. Gen. v, 1. p, 206, (fide specim.) non Walt, 



Hab, Abundant in the plains of the interior, especially about the Saskatchawan. Vr, Richardson ; 

 Drummond; Douglas.— This is amongst the most distinct of all the species of Linum, yet scarcely known to 

 any author, 'except Pureh and Torrey, and by them only as a native of the Missouri. I possess beautiful 

 specimens from Dr. Boott, gathered near Boston ; and I have it from Mr. NuttaU as « X. striatum," gathered 

 at New Haslerj but this latter species should have ovate or oblong leaves and blue flowers.— The beautifully 

 spindoso-senate and glandular calyces at once characterise the present species. 



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