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veins. Those from the root are stalked; those from the 

 stem are entirely or nearly without stalks, and grow 

 opposite each other ; those 

 from the flowers are egg- 

 shaped. The flowers grow 

 without stalks from the 

 upper leaf-axils, and in a 

 terminal 3 to 6 flowered 

 cyme, surrounded by egg- 

 shaped leaves. The corolla 

 is large (1|- inches long), 

 salver-shaped (same shape 

 as the primrose), rather 

 yellow in the inside, dark 

 red on the outside, with 

 5 to 6 blunt entire petals. 

 It flowers in August, and 

 is only found on the 

 mountains in the south- 

 west of Norway. 



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1 6. Linncea horealis, 

 belonging to the Caprifo- 

 liaceffi or Woodbine Tribe. 

 A pretty little plant with 

 thin, trailing, reddish, hairy, and leafy stems, which are 

 1 to 3 feet long, and upright stalks 2 to 4 inches long, 

 which are leafy in the lower part, and usually bear two 

 drooping flowers. The evergreen leaves have short 

 stalks, are nearly round or oval, are roundly toothea, 

 and hairy on the upper side and at the edges. The 



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