feveral weeks. It was raifed from feeds, which Mr. Loppices © 
received from Mount Caucafus, and we fear whether the root 
_ may be more than biennial ; but under favourable circumftances, 
there is no doubt that ripe feeds will be produced. 
This comes very near to Linum birfutum of Linnaus, 
the Linum /ylvefire primum of Crusivs, if it be not a mere 
variety of that fpecies, in his defcription of which, the latter 
author exprefsly compares the flowers to thofe of the Mallow; 
a refemblance fo remarkable in our plant, that we had intended 
calling it malveflorum, had we not been foreftalled in two of 
the periodical publications of laft month. In the refle€tion of | 
the ftyles, between the filaments and the clubbed or capitate 
ftigmas, it correfponds with the defcription of Linum 
aufiriacum ; and in the extenfive Herbarium of A.B. Lamsert, 
Efq. there is a fpecimen from Pattuas, confidered by him as 
a hairy variety of that fpecies, which approaches very near to 
our plant. 
