LINUM LEWISH. 



LEWIS'S FLAX. MISSOURI FLAX. 



Pentandria Pentagynia, Linn. Caryophyllem y Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 5-parted, persistent. Petals 5. unguiculate. Capsule superior, 10-valved, 10-celled. 

 Seeds solitary. (Filaments of the stamens united at the base. — Nutt.) 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Plant glaucous ; segments of the calix ovate-acuminate, petals cuneate, round at the apex; 

 leaves crowded, linear, stems numerous. B. 



SYNONYM. 

 Lintjm perenne, Nutt. Gen. Am. PI. i. p. 206. 



Root annual and perennial ? Whole plant glaucous and leafy. 

 Stem erect, round, smooth, glaucous, from one to two feet high, 

 branching. Foliage crowded, the leaves from a quarter of an inch 

 to an inch long, and from the sixteenth to an eighth of an inch wide, 

 smooth, glaucous on both sides, linear, (lanceolate-linear, Pursh) 

 attenuated at base, sub-acuminated or terminating in a sharp apex, 

 (hardly mucronate, as Pursh describes them) slightly arcuate, erect 

 in theyoungplant,but after florescence, or after the plant has attained 

 its full growth, reflexed. Flowers smaller than those of Linum 



