Prats LV. 
(A) LINUM viscosum, Linn.; (B) L. narzonenss, Linn. 
Natural Order Linacre”. 
Gen. Coar.—See description of Plate V. Part I. 
(A.) Spec. Cuar.—Flowers large, pink, veined with purple, dimorphic, 
in scorpioid or corymbose racemes; peduncles half as long as sepals. 
Sepals ovate, alternate, densely glandular, pubescent, longer than cap- 
sule. Petals beautifully veined, cuneate-obovate, claw yellow, dilated 
into 2 prominent ridge on inner side. Capsule somewhat 3-ribbed, dis- 
tinctly apiculate. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, glandular, pu- 
bescent or ciliate, without glands at base. Stem glandular, pubescent, 
woody below, perennial. 
Linum viscosum, Linn. Sp. Plant. p. 898; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. 
i. 281; Woods, Tour. FI. p. 61. 
(B.) Spec. Cuar.— Flowers dimorphic in a corymb; the young 
corymb of buds and upper part of the stem nodding, fruiting; pe- 
duncles erect. Sepals glabrous, membranous at edge, lanceolate-acumi- 
nate. Petals obovate, on long claw. Anthers oblong, about three times 
as long as broad. Capsule shorter than calyx. Leaves lanceolate, gla- 
brous, minutely denticulate at edge, without glands at base. Stems 
many, from a perennial woody stock. - 
Linum narbonense, Linn. Sp. Plant. p. 398; Gren. et Godr. FI. de Fr. 
i. 282; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 60. 
Haxirats.—(A.) Gorbio Valley, Mentone, gathered December 18, 
1866 ; fruit drawn from a specimen in M. Ardoino’s herbarium, with- 
out habitat given, but probably from the same spot. (B.) Gathered by 
me at Oneglia, on April 11, 1867. 
Rumarks.—Linum viscosum, Linn., is one of the many plants which 
linger on in flower until the winter, and may still be found in November 
and December. This species is not rare along the coast from Genoa 
to Nice, but is principally found in the submountainous region. Ber- 
toloni mentions having gathered it near Genoa (“Allo Sperone’’). 
It is a very ornamental plant, and well merits introduction into our 
gardens. I do not know of any habitat for this species to the west 
of Nice until one reaches the Vallée de Castanese in the Pyrenees 
(Fourcade!) Nyman, in his ‘Sylloges Flore Europe,’ records it as 
growing among the Eastern Pyrenees, in Arragon, Navarre, and Por- 
tugal, in Italy, Austria (Tyrol), and Germany (Oberbayern). Linum 
narbonense, Linn., abounds on the hills near Oneglia, among the moun- 
tains north of Nice and Mentone, often descending along the sides of 
