LINUM. 
yard high, specially profuse in flower and specially rich in their blues— 
quite the best of the taller blue-flowering Flaxes. 
L. olympicum is yet another beauty in a new note of colour, from 
the high stony places of the Bithynian Olympus, where it forms a 
shrubby mass some 4 or 6 inches high, with shoots set in elliptic 
narrow leaves, and then emitting few-flowered sprays of large violet 
blossoms. 
LL. perenne is the wild English perennial Flax. There are many 
forms of it, including pinks and white ; nor is it easy to separate some 
so-called species from this; especially the gardener’s L. “ sabiricum,” 
which has just the same showers of blue stars, varying also to white 
(like all blue Flaxes), and to pink also, which is less common. 
These are both large, 18 inches or 2 feet high, but of the usual 
airy grace, though their flowers are surpassed by those of L. 
austriacum and L. narbonnense. 
L. puberulum is a glaucous blue-grey plant of some 8 inches from 
North America. 
L. rigidum is a taller, stiffer American species of some 18 inches. 
L. salsoloeides. See under L. tenuifolium. 
LL. sibiricum. See under L. perenne. 
L. Stocksianum is another variety of L. perenne. 
L. sulfureum inhabits the most calcareous clifis and slopes of 
Antilebanon, where it makes an almost bushy mass of 12-inch shoots, 
set with leaves that differentiate it from the rest of the Flavum-group, 
and especially its nearest relative, L. orientale, by being markedly minute 
and narrow and pointed. The flowers, too, are of soft pale yellow. 
L. tenuifolium is a furry fine-leaved species of Southern Europe, 
with rather the habit of L. austriacum, but scantier, and with rose- 
lilac or pink flowers. The species is universal all over the warm banks 
of the South even into the mountain ranges, where, for instance, it 
may be seen above Bormio at the foot of the Stelvio. Unfortunately 
we now are bidden to include under the name of this polymorphic 
species one of the loveliest and most distinct of Flaxes, L. salsoloeides, 
which fills the field-sides by Saint Martin Vésubie with mats and 
masses of pale pure colour, visible as a solid sheet from afar; and 
wanders thence down into the roadside gutters, to toss its wide great 
open cups of pearly pallor among the golden star-showers of Hypericum 
Coris. L. salsoloeides is anyhow a most outstanding plant, neater and 
lower in growth, forming, from one crown, a forest of uniform stems 
some 6 or 8 inches high, ascending from a mass of low-lying shoots 
like miniature sprigs of larch, and unflinching beneath the weight of 
their erect and splendid soft flowers, shell-pale, with a melting flush 
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