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Linum Ascyrirotium. Biue anp Wuire 
derek betes 
Cla/s and Order. 
PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal.5-phyllus. Petala 5. Cap/. fupera, 10-valvis, 10-locularise 
Semina folitaria. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
LINUM a/cyrifolium ; calycibus hirfutis acuminatis, floribus 
fubfpicatis: fpicis revolutis, foliis alternis cordato- 
ovatis pubefcentibus : fuperioribus fuboppofitis, - 
LINUM {ylveftre latifolium I. Clu/. Hifp. p. 352. 
LINUM fylveftre latifolium JI. Cluf: Hift. 
LINUM fylveftre Jatifolium hirfutum candidum, purpureis 
venis diftinftum. Bauh. Pin. 214. Mori/. Hifi, 2. 
Pot 2S MP ae Ee 
_ LINUM fylveftre latifolium foliis hirfutis Tithymali Helio- 
fcopii. Hift. Lugd. 1. p. 417. ? 
Crusrus, in his account of the plants of Spain, defcribes a 
{pecies of Flax which he met with near a deferted church in 
ortugal, putting forth frefh fhoots in the month of November, 
and luckily with fome of the feed-veffels ftill remaining on the 
me ftalks. Thefe be took with him to Holland, and 
raifed a fingle plant, which continued to bear flowers at the 
tter-end of the fummer, for fome years, but produced no 
ced. He defcribes this plant as having, from one root, three 
or four flender downy ftems a foot high, divided near the top 
to two or three branches, rolled back at their extremities in 
the manner of the greater Turnfole, and covered with white 
wers veined with purple, nearly as large as thofe of the 
-. Mallow; the leaves, he fays, are rather wide, downy, three- 
nerved, 
