HOT-HOUSE OE STOVE PLANTS. 



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duces the flax of commerce. This plant must have mummy-cloths of ancient Egypt are found to be 

 been cultivated from the most remote times, for we made from the fibre of this plant. 



LiKDESIA EIVALia. 



read in Scripture that when Egypt was sorely troubled We have noticed the genus here, however, to in-, 



with its plagues, "the ilax was smitten," and that troduoe one species, Z. tyigynum (and not tigrinmn^ 

 "Joseph was clothed in fine linen;" whilst the as it is too often erroneously named), which if pro- 



