350 LINACEAE, (Vor. II. . 
5. Linum Floridanum (Planch.) Trel. Florida Yellow Flax. (Fig. 2262.) 
Linum Virginianum var. Floridanum(?) Planch. 
Lond. Journ. Bot. 7: 480. 1848. 
Linum Floridanum rel. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 5: 
13. 1887. 
Perennial, glabrous, stem strict, stiff, terete, 
144°-2%° high, corymbosely branched above, the 
branches erect-ascending, slightly angled. Leaves 
acute, the lowest mostly opposite, narrowly oblong 
or oblanceolate, the others linear-lanceolate, ap- 
pressed-ascending, alternate, 5’’-10’’ long, %4’/- 
2/’ wide; fruiting branches erect-ascending; fruit- 
ing pedicels shorter than or little exceeding the 
calyx, or the lowest ones slightly longer; sepals 
ovate, acute or acuminate, about equalling the 
capsule; capsule ovoid, about 114’ long; petals 
yellow, twice as long as the calyx. 
Illinois (according to Trelease), Florida to Louisi- 
ana. June-Aug. 
6. Linum striatum Walt. Ridged 
Yellow Flax. (Fig. 2263.) 
Linum striatum Walt. Fl. Car. 118. 1788. 
Linum diffusum Wood, Bot. & Flor. 66. 1870. 
Perennial, racemosely branched, light 
green and somewhat viscid, so that the plant 
adheres to paper in which it is dried, the stem 
and branches sharply angled or even winged 
by low ridges decurrent from the leaf-bases. 
Leaves usually opposite nearly up to the in- 
florescence, oblong, acute or obtuse; branches 
of the panicle short and divergent; flowers 
small, yellow, often clustered; capsule sub- 
globose, usually rather longer than the sepals. 
In bogs and swamps, rarely in drier ground, 
Ontario to Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, 
Arkansas and Texas. Summer. 
7. Linum sulcatum Riddell. Grooved 
Yellow Flax. (Fig. 2264.) 
Linum suicatum Riddell, Suppl. Cat. Ohio Pl. ro. 1836. 
Linum Boottit Planch. Lond. Journ. Bot.'7:475. 1848. 
Linum simplex Wood, Bot. & Flor. 66. 1870? 
Annual, simple or branched, 1°-2° high. Stem 
wing-angled and grooved, at least above; leaves 
alternate, lanceolate or linear, 8/’-12’’ long, 1//— 
1%’’ wide, acute or acuminate, 3-nerved, the 
lower glabrous, the upper smaller and glandular- 
ciliate, as are the floral bracts and sepals; stipules 
represented by a pair of small globose dark-colored 
glands; flowers racemose or corymbose, about 6’’ 
broad, yellow; pedicels 1’/-4’’ long; sepals lanceo- 
late, acute, slightly longer than the ovoid, acute, 
incompletely 1o-celled pod; styles separate above 
the middle; septa of the capsule ciliate. 
In dry soil, Ontario to Manitoba, south, especially 
along the mountains, to Georgia, west to Texas, rare 
near the Atlantic coast. Summer. 
