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XXII. LINACEyE. Flax Family. 



106. LINUM, Linn, (FLAX.) 



(368.) L. Virginianum, Linn. 



Dry woods or sandy thickets. Vicinity of Hamilton. (^Logie.) Ca- 

 nada Southern Railway, one mile east of the Great Western crossing 

 near Niagara Falls. (Macoun.) Lake Huron. (Todd.) 



(369.) L. striatum, Walter. 



L. rigidum, Torr. & Gray, Fl. I., 204, in part. 



Wet or boggy grounds along the Great Lakes. Toronto Island ; shores 

 of Lake Huron, Eed Bay, Fishing Islands and Oliphant, Bruce Penin- 

 sula, Ont. (Macoun.) 



(370.) L. sulcatum, Piiddel. 



L. rigidum, Torr. & Gray, Fl. I., 204, in part. 

 L. Boottii, Planch. Gray, Manual, 1856. 



Dry sandy soil, apparently rare. Rice Lake Plains, near Castleton, 

 Northumberland Co. ; Oak Hills, Hastings Co., Ont. On sand in the 

 Qu'Appelle Vallej-, a little west of the bridge at Fort Ellice, KW.T. 

 (Macoun.) 



(3Y1.) L. rigidum, Pursh, 210. 



On dry clay soil, rather common on the southern prairie. (Macoun.) 

 Abundant on the plains of the interior, especially about the Saskatche- 

 wan. (Richardson.) Milk River and Woody Mountain, N. W. T. 

 (Dawson.) 



(3*72.) L. perenne, Linn. Prairie Flax. ' 



L. Lcwisii, Pursh, 210. 



Very common throughout the prairie region and west to the Pacific 

 Ocean, and north to the shores of the Arctic Sea. Rej^orted from Mar- 

 mora Lake, Ont., but this is doubtful. 



(313.) L. usitatissimum, Linn. Cultivated Flax. 



Introduced into many fields and becoming common along all our 

 railways, from Nova Scotia westward. 



