32 LINACEH. (FLAX FAMILY.) 
orbicular to semi-circular in outline; the lower toothed or cleft, the upper more narrowly 
and deeply, 5 to 9-lobed or parted; the segments sparingly toothed, often linear and 
entire; flowers in naked elongated racemes; bractlets small, lanceolate; pedicels short, 
naked; calyx often tomentose; petals emarginate, 6 to 12 lines long, purple; carpels 
smooth. : : 
2. S. humilis, Gr. Much resembling the last, but lower, and often decumbent at 
the base; leaves smaller; flowers fewer and more scattered; calyx larger, 3 to 6 lines 
long; carpels reticulated and pubescent. 
** Annual. 
3. S&S. diploscypha, Gr. Pubescent with long spreading hairs, 1 to 2 ft. high; 
leaves deeply 5-9-cleft with lobed segments; bractlets conspicuous, 5 to 7-parted, hispid; 
flowers nearly sessile in close 3 to 5-flowered clusters; petals 6 to 12 lines long, broad and 
emarginate. 
4. &. malachroides, Gr. Stout, hirsute, 3 to6 ft. high, tufted; leaves large; flowers 
small, white or purplish, nearly sessile in close terminal heads on the short leafy branches; 
petals narrowly obcordate; sets of stamens indistinct. 
Orprer 14. LINACEA 
A small order represented and characterized by the one genus 
1. LINUM, L. Fuax. 
Parts of the flower 5, except sometimes in the pistil. Filaments united at the base 
with commonly alternating teeth. Styles 5, or sometimes only 2 or 3, distinct or united. 
Stigmas capitate or oblong; ovary globose. Seeds twice as many as the styles. Herbs 
with sessile entire leaves without stipules, and cymose or panicled flowers. 
§ 1. Styles 5. Flowers blue. 
1, L. perenne, L. Smooth, 1 to 2} ft. high, branching above, leafy; leaves linear 
to linear-lanceolate, 3 to 18 lines long, acute; stipular glands none; flowers on slender 
pedicels, scattered, large.. 
§2. Styles 3; petals appendaged at base, with wu tooth on each side and a third adnate 
to the inner face of the claw. 
* Plowers yellow; pedicels short. 
2. L. Breweri Gr. Sinsoth, slender, 3 to & inches high or more, few flowered at 
the summit; leaves linear-setaceous, 6 to 8 lines longa; stipular glands conspicuous; petals 
3 or mure lines .ong. 
** Flowers cuse-purz le tu white. 
3. L. congestum, Gr. Nearly smooth, excepting the calyx, about a foot high; 
