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PLATE 
CCCCXLIX. 
3 LINUM TRIGYNU M. 
Three-styled Golden Flax. 
CLASS V. 
ORDER 
PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Five Chives. 
V. : 
Five Pointals. 
GENERIC CH ARACTER. 
Catyx. Perianthium Sagi lanceola- 
tens. 
tum, erect 
Corotta. a quinque, 
Reson superne sensim Sere obtusa, 
Peers “Fanaa quinque subulata, erecta, 
itudine calycis (rudimenta filorum in- 
tia). Antherz simplices, 
PISTILLUM. . OV Styli 5, fili- 
. - erecti, ‘longitudine staminum 
Stigmata si simplicia, reflexa 
Pericarpium. Capsula globosa, pentagona, 
» quinquevalvis 
SEMINA aclitat, ovato-planiuscula, acuminata, 
glabra, 
apekcrrie 
Low Ea Mae — alternis, ovatis, glabris, 
ue ribus in rami 
eb eecinalivan : orolla aurea, an 
ral alters Srineeale viridibus 
EMPALEMENT, Cup five-leaved, Jance-shaped,. 
widening upwards by degrees, obtuse, 
spreading. 
Curves. Five filaments, awl-shaped, upright, 
the length of the calyx (there are five alter~ 
nate slight rudiments of threads). Anthers 
simple, and arrow-shap 
Poinrat, Seed-bud ovate. Shafts 5, thread 
shaped, and upright, the peat of the 
stamens. Summits simple, and reflexed. 
Sezp-vesseL. Capsule globular, five-sided, ten- 
celled, five-valved. 
Szeps solitary, of a flattish oval form, sharp- 
pointed, and smooth. 
CHARACTER. 
Frax ee three pointals ; leaves alternate, ovate, 
and smooth, point nted at the end: flowers 
Sereiitcits the branches singly: blossoms 
gold colour, and large : the smaller branches. 
ing 
petals five, oblong, 
_and 
alternate, numerous, and green, 
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REFERENCE aie THE PLATE 
1. The empalement. 
2.. One of the petals. 
3. Chives and pointals, 
4. A chive magnified 
5, Seed-bud and pointals, a summit magnified. 
6. The seed-bud cut transversely, magnified. 
Tu tse tly new Linum is by far the most showy of the gem and —— all the gloomy mont 
of winter with its fine large flowers, whose brilli 
mer, when Flora reigns with undiminished lustre. It Sauce sepia as a hot-house plant, 
but is now found to succeed m better with the careful treatment of the green-house It is pub- 
lished by Capt. Hardwicke in his enumeration of the plants of Sireenagur in the nual oi 
gister of 1800, and was found by that rie on the sides of the — in fine bloo 
December, 2m whom it received the specific title of trigynu Its provincial name 
ul Ashorfee ; from Gul a flower and Ashorfee gold, a coin curren in India of the va — 
f Dr. Smith, copied from 
He rent from any of a Ting 
them exhibiting the slightest vestige of a serra recs 
r figure was made from a plant in luxuriant blcom at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley 
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