Tas. 8769. 
LINUM ELEGANS. 
Greece. 
Linackak. Tribe HuLINEAE. 
Linum, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 242, 
Linum elegans, Sprunner ex Boiss. Diagn. ser. ii. no. 1, p. 993 Boiss. Fl. 
Or. vol. i. p. 854; Halacsy, Consp. Fl. Graec. vol, i. p. 257; species 
L. flavo, Linn., et L. campanulato, Linn., affinis; ab illo differt caulibus 
crassioribus, foliis minoribus, sepalis angustioribus et brevioribus, cymis 
contractis, ab hoe foliis infimis minoribus uninerviis, sepalis tenuiter 
acuminatis, floribus minoribus. 
Herba viridis, glabra, basi suffrutescens, caespitosa, ramuli exteriores prostrati, 
interiores erecti. Caulis gracilis, cylindricus, viridi-fuscus, ad 20 cm. 
altus. Folia oblongo-spathulata, ima saepius conferta, obtusiuscula, 
superiora linearia, acuta, 10-30 mm. longa, 3-7 mm. lata, glaucescentia, 
costa infra conspicua; stipulae lineares, inferiores circa 2 mm. longae, 
superiores minutissimae. Inflorescentia cymosa, 2-7-flora. Sepala viridia, 
lanceolato-linearia, marginibus magis minusve anguste membranacea, 
glandulosa, circiter 7 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata. Petala patentia, ungul- 
culata, flava, distincte nervosa, 2°3 cm. longa, 1 cm. lata, caduca. 
Antherae lineares, ad 2 mm. longae; filamenta subulata. Ovarium 
5-loculare; styli 5, liberi, filiformes ; stigmata simplicia, linearia.— 
L. iberidifolium, Auch. ex Planch. in Hook. Loni. Journ. Bot. vol. ii. 
p. 515.—M. L. GREEN. 
The specimens on which the original account of Linum 
elegans was based were collected on Mount Parnassos by 
Sprunner, who suggested the name it bears, and on 
Mount Olympus by Heldreich. It occurs, however, 
elsewhere in Greece, and has been gathered on Mount Ida 
in Asia Minor. Before Boissier published his description 
under Sprunner’s name, it had also been met with by 
Aucher, who suggested for it the name US iberidifolia, 
which was similarly taken up by Planchon. Besides the 
specimen to which Aucher gave that name, this collector 
had also gathered it on Mount Athos, and Planchon, 
when he monographed the genus in 1848, after having 
referred to the Mount Athos plant under L. caespitosum, 
Sibth. & Sm., finally decided, and with reason, that it 
JuLy-SEPTEMBER, 1918. 
