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leaves. Flowers rather large, purplish-blue, and very pretty. 
It is a slender plant, a foot or more high. 
Linum anevustiroLium. Narrow-leaved pale Flax. Very 
similar in appearance to the last, leaves narrow, flowers 
paler blue, and smaller in proportion to the size of the calyx. 
It is found in sandy and chalky pastures, principally near 
the sea. 
Linum catHarticum. Purging Flax. Much smaller in 
every respect, only about six inches high, stem slender, with 
opposite oblong leaves, and white, small flowers, drooping 
before expansion. Pastures and heaths are the principal 
localities, but it is almost everywhere abundant. 
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PENTANDRIA. HEXAGYNIA. 
THALAMIFLORZ. DROSERACER. 
DROSERA. (SunpeEw.) 
Generic character. Calyx five cleft. Petals five. Plants 
having leaves clothed with glandular hairs, and curling inwards 
when they first begin to grow. 
DRosERA ROTUNDIFOLIA. (Plate XVII. Fig. 67.) Round- 
leaved Sundew. This interesting plant, found on bogs and 
