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LINACEAE. 



[Voi,. II. 



Linum Floridanum (Planch.) Trel. Florida Yellow Flax. 



(Fig. 2262.) 



Linum Virginianum var. Floridanum (?) Planch. 



Lond. Journ. Bot. 7: 480. 1848. 

 Linum Floridanum Trel. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 5: 



13. 1887. 



Perennial, glabrous, stem strict, stiff, terete, 

 i%-2% high, corymbosely branched above, the 

 branches erect-ascending, slightly angled. Leaves 

 acute, the lowest mostly opposite, narrowly oblong 

 or oblanceolate, the others linear-lanceolate, ap- 

 pressed-ascending, alternate, 5 // -io // long, W- 

 2" wide; fruiting branches erect-ascending; fruit- 

 ing pedicels shorter than or little exceeding the 

 calyx, or the lowest ones slightly longer; sepals 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, about equalling the 

 capsule; capsule ovoid, about \W long; petals 

 yellow, twice as long as the calyx. 



Illinois (according to Trelease), Florida to Louisi- 

 ana. June-Aug. 



6. Linum striatum Walt. Ridged 

 Yellow Flax. (Fig. 2263.) 



Linum striatum Walt. Fl. Car. 118. 1788. 

 Linum diffusum Wood, Bot. & Flor. 66. 1870. 



Perennial, racetnosely branched, light 

 green and somewhat viscid, so that the plant 

 adheres to paper in which it is dried, the stem 

 and branches sharply angled or even winged 

 by low ridges decurrent from the leaf-bases. 

 Leaves usually opposite nearly up to the in- 

 florescence, oblong, acute or obtuse; branches 

 of the panicle short and divergent; flowers 

 small, yellow, often clustered; capsule sub- 

 globose, usually rather longer than the sepals. 



In bogs and swamps, rarely in drier ground, 

 Ontario to Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, 

 Arkansas and Texas. Summer. 



7. Linum sulcatum Riddell. Grooved 

 Yellow Flax. (Fig. 2264.) 



Linum sulcalum Riddell, Suppl. Cat. Ohio PI. 10. 1836- 

 Linum Bpoltii Planch. Lond. Journ. Bot. 7: 475. 1848. 

 Linum simplex Wood, Bot. & Flor. 66. 1870? 



Annual, simple or branched, i-2 high. Stem 

 wing-angled and grooved, at least above; leaves 

 alternate, lanceolate or linear, 8"-i2" long, i // - 

 i^" wide, acute or acuminate, 3-uerved, the 

 lower glabrous, the upper smaller and glandular- 

 ciliate, as are the floral bracts and sepals; stipules 

 represented by a pair of small globose dark-colored 

 glands; flowers racemose or corymbose, about 6" 

 broad, yellow; pedicels i // -4 // long; sepals lanceo- 

 late, acute, slightly longer than the ovoid, acute, 

 incompletely lo-celled pod; styles separate above 

 the middle; septa of the capsule ciliate. 



In dry soil, Ontario to Manitoba, south, especially 

 along the mountains, to Georgia, west to Texas, rare 

 near the Atlantic coast. Summer. 



