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3. M. moscha'ta, L. (MusK M.) Stem erect, 1 foot high. 

 Stem-leaves 5-parted, the divisions cleft. Flowers large and hand- 

 some, rose-coloured or white, on short peduncles, crowded on the 

 stem and branches. Roadsides near gardens. 



2. ABTJ'TrLON, Tourn. INDIAN MALLOW. 

 A. Avicen'nae, Gaertn. (VELVET-LEAF.) Stem 2-5 feet high, 

 branching. Leaves velvety, round-cordate, long-pointed. Corolla 

 yellow. Near gardens ; not common. 



ORDER XIX. TILIA'CEJE. (LINDEN FAMILY.) 



Trees with fibrous bark, soft and white wood, and heart- 

 shaped and serrate leaves, with deciduous stipules. Flowers in 

 small cymes hanging on an axillary peduncle, to which is attached 

 a leaf-like bract. Sepals deciduous. The only Canadian genus is 



TIMA, L. BASSWOOD. WHITEWOOD. 



T. America'na, L. (BASSWOOD.) A fine tree, in rich woods. 

 Flowers yellow or cream-coloured, very fragrant. Leaves smooth 

 and green on both sides, obliquely cordate or truncate at the 

 base, sharply serrate. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Fruit a globular 

 nut, 1 -celled, 1-2-seeded. 



ORDER XX. LINAGES. (FLAX FAMILY. ) 



Herbs with entire exstipulate leaves, and regular hypogynous 

 flowers. Sepals, petals, stamens, and styles, 5 each. Filaments 

 united at the base. Pod 10-celled. 10-seeded. Our only genus is 



MNUM, L. FLAX. 



1. L. Virginia'num, L. (VIRGINIA F.) Flowers yellow, small 

 ( of an inch long), scattered. Stem erect, it and the spreading 

 branches terete. Leaves lanceolate and acute, the lower obtuse 

 and opposite. Dry soil. 



2. L. Stria'tum, Walt., has the branches wing-angled, broader 

 leaves and more crowded flowers than No 1. The whole plant is 

 stouter. 



3. L. USitatis'simum, L. (COMMON F.) Flowers blue. Leaves 

 alternate, linear-lanceolate, acute, 3- veined. Cultivated grounds. 



