HOT-HOUSE OK 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. 



LlNDENIA RIVALIS. 



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

 with its plagues, " the flax was smitten," and that troduce one species, L. trigynum (and not tigrinicm, 

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



