has established after a careful examination of Russel’s original 
species in the Banksian Herbarium. The specific character 
above introduced, and the accompanying figure, render any more 
minute description needless. The species seems to have an ex- 
tensive range,—Aleppo, Mount Lebanon (Herb. Hook.), Sicily, 
throughout Greece and the Greek islands, in Macedonia and 
Bithynia, at elevations of fifteen hundred to seventeen hundred 
feet above the level of the sea. 
The seeds from which our plant were raised, were received 
from M. Reuter, collected in the plain of Mersina, Cilicia. It 
is a pretty hardy annual, but the flowers are sadly wanting in 
that brilliancy of colour which renders the Linum grandiflorum 
(see our Tab. 4956) such a favourite in our gardens. 
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the petals are removed. 2. Stamens and pistil. — 
3. Ovary :—magnified. 
