FLOWERING FLAX 



Flowering Flax, Linum grandifldmtn, is an annual of erect, 

 branching, leafy habit about two feet high. The flowers vary 

 in tints and shades of red, are very bright and shining, and are 



Flowering Flax. 

 Llnum grandifiitrum 



borne in considerable number on slender pedicels at the summit 

 of the stems. The plant makes a very satisfactory blooming bed, 

 but the individual flowers fall quickly. 



Perennial Flax, Linum •perinne, is a hardy summer-blooming 

 species with rather small, blue, sometimes white flowers. In 

 these the styles and stamens are of different lengths in different 

 flowers, a condition which is believed to have to do with cross-fer- 

 tilization. 



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