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RUTA LINIFOLIA, £. LARGE-FLOWERED 



Flax-leaved Rue. 



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Class and Order. 



Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-partitus. Petala concava. Recept. punctis melli- 

 feris decern cinctum. Caps, lobata. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Ruta linifolia ; foliis lanceolatis subsessilibus glabris, pani- 

 culae ramis pubescentibus, petalis oyatis. Marsch. Ft. 

 Taur.-Caucas. I. p. 309. 



Ruta linifolia ; foliis simplicibus lanceolatis glabris, fila- 

 mentis ciliatis, caule simplici herbaceo. Willd. Sp. PI. 

 2. p. 544 Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 32 Bot. Re- 

 posit. 565. 



Ruta sylvestris linifolia hispanica. Bocc. Mus. 2. p. 82. 

 t.73. Barrel, ic. 1186. 



(@.) grandiflora ; foliis spathulato-lanceolatisglaucis,panicula 

 congesta. 



Ruta montana foliis integris subrotmidis. Buxb. Cent. 2. 

 jo. 30. t. 28. f 2. 



We should certainly have considered this plant as a dis- 

 tinct species from the Ruta linifolia figured by Mr. 

 Andrews in the Botanists Repository ; and Mr. Haworth, 

 to whom we are indebted for the communication of the 

 living specimen from which our drawing was made, from 

 the garden of the late Mr. Swainson, is quite of the same 

 opinion ; but not having had ourselves an opportunity of 

 comparing the plants together, we cannot venture to de- 

 viate from the decision of the learned and accurate author 

 of the Flora Taurico-Caucasica. 



Our plant grows, according to Buxbaum, about Ridosto, 

 in Romania. The late Mr. Sydenham Edwards observed 

 that the flowers were possessed of a scent similar to that of 

 cowslips. 



