206 PENTANDRIA. TENtAGYNIA. 



Species. 1. S. Arineria. (Thrift, Sea Gilliflower.) 



LtMONiuM. Floweis scattered, upon a panicuiated 

 or spiked scape, or leafy stem. 



Species. 2. caroliiiicnm. (American Sea Lavender.) 

 Apparently a mere variety of .S'. IJ?7witwm. The leaf is 

 obovate-laiiceolate, miicronate below the apex, entire and 

 veinless; the scape alternately and numtrously branched, 

 ramuli corymbose, teeth of the calix acute, flowers of an 

 eleg-ant blue, each siibiended by 2 very unequal bractes. 



This numerous genus of near 50 species is principally 

 indigenous to the sea-coasts of the south of Europe, ex- 

 tending into Barbury, Egypt, Siberia and Lesser Asia, 

 there are also 5 species at the Cape of Ciood Hope, in the 

 southern hemisphere. 



299. LINUM. L. (Flax.) 



Calix 5-i)arted, persistent. Petals 5, iingui- 

 ciilate. Capsule superior, 10-valved, lO-ceiled. 

 Seed solitary. (Filaments of the stamina united 

 at the base.) 



Herbaceous and sufTruticose; leaves mostly alternate; 

 flowers solitary, axillaiy, or; i arely coming out opposite 

 the leaves, at the summit corj'mbose, racemose or dis- 

 persed. 



Species. 1. L. vsitatissimum. Scarcely naturalized. 



2. peveime. (L. Xe-u'/w, Pursh.) On cultivating both in 

 the same garden, 1 liave not been able to detect any spe- 

 cific difference betwixt the European and American 

 plant. I'hat of the Missouri was, however, smaller, and 

 the seeds of a paler colour. Hab. Commencing about 

 Eoi't Mandan, and becoming more abundant towards the 

 jnountains; growing on the declivities of water courses. 



3. virginf'cum. Throughout the Atlantic states, and i:i 

 Upper Louisiana. 4. ngidu'm. Obs. Stem rigid, angular, 

 grooved; leaves subsetaceous, short, and erect; margin 

 cf the calix leaves glandulously ciliate; petals cuneate-ob- 

 2onsr; seed pale brown. — Hab. Around Fort Mandan. 

 About 6 inches high, flowers pale yellow. 5. atriatum., 

 Carolina. 



The remainder of this extensive genus, with the excep- 

 tion of 3 species in troi)ical America, 1 in New Zealand, 

 and 3 iit the Cape of Good Hope, is indigenous to Europe, 

 principally to the south, extending also into Barbary and 

 :.!ie Levant. 



