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On the Cultivation of the common Flax. 



LINUM USITATISSIMUM. 

 Common Annual Flax. 

 L. calycibus capsulisque mucronatis, petalis crenatis, foliis 



lanceolatis alternis, caule subsolitario. Hall. Helv. n. 836". 



Linn. Mat. Med. 90. Gmel Sib. 4. p. 115. Mill. Diet. 



n. 1. Scop. Cam. 2. n. 381. Kniph. Cent. 9. n. 57. Know. 



del. 2. t. L. 9. Ludw. ect. t. 144. Hoff. Germ. III. Roth. 



Germ. I. 139- U 370. 

 L. ramis foliisque alternis lineari-lanceolatis, radice annua. 



Hort. Cliff. 113. Roy. Lugdb. 433. Phil. Bot. 261*. 

 L. foliis alternis lanceolatis integerrimis, calycibus acumi- 



natis, capsulis mucronatis angulatis. Hort. lips. 71. 

 L. sylvestre. Matth. 406. sativum plane referens. Bauh. 



Hist. 3. p. 492. 

 L. arvense. Bauh. Pin. 214. Ray. Hist. 107 S. Neck.Gallob. 



159. 



(3. Linum sativum. Bauh. Pin. 213. Blackw. t. 160. 

 y. Linum sativum humilius, rlore majore. Boerh. Lugb. 1. 

 p. 284. 



L. (humile) calycibus capsulisque mucronatis, petalis emar- 

 ginatis, foliis lanceolatis alternis, caule ramoso. Mill. Diet, 

 n. 2. R. 



§. Linum sativum latifolium africanum, fructu majore. 



Tournef. Inst. 339- 

 Habitat hodie inter segetes Europae australis. 



The soil of every Flower-garden is always rich enough to 

 produce good Flax ; but if it is loamy rather than sandy, the 

 quantity will be nearly double : even in the fields, which can 



