232 
PENTANDRIA FENTAGYNIA. 
Class V. 
3906 glabra Ilaw. 
3.'X)7 Alo'ides W. 
3908capitella W. 
3909rubens W. 
3910 verticillaris W. 
3911 expansa IV. 
3912 sparsa TV. 
3913difFusa W. 
39I4moschata W. 
700. GISE'KIA. W. 
391 phajrnaceoides W. 
701. LI'NUM. W. 
3916 usitatissimum 
3917 nervosum JV. ^ K. 
3918 perenne W. 
3919 trigynum Sm. 
3920 hirsutum W. 
3 hyperidfoUum Sims, 
3921 ascyrifolium H. K. 
3922 narbonense W. 
3923 reflexum W. 
3924 tenuifolium W 
3925 aiigustifolium H. K. 
3926gallicum W. 
3927 maritimum W. 
3928 alp'inum W. 
3929 austr'iacum W. 
3930 virginianum W. 
3931 rigidum PA. 
3932 flavum W. 
3933 campanulatum W. 
(3 taaricum W. en. 
5934 strictum W. 
393.5 suftruticosum W. 
3936 arboreum 7F. 
3937 africanum W. 
3938 nodiflorum ^F. 
3939 catbarticum W. 
3940 quadrifolium W. 
702. DRO'SERA. JF. 
3941 rotundjfolia W. 
3942 longifolia fF". 
3443 anglica H. K. 
3944 filiformis Ph. 
703. COMMERSO'NI A. 
394.'5 platypbylla B. M. 
3946 dasyphylla B. Rep. 
smooth-cluster. 
Aloe-like ^ 
square-spiked £ 
annual red 
whorl-flowered 
awl-leaved 
alternate-lvd. j£ 
diffuse 
musky 
iQJpr 
iCDI pr 
OJpr 
iQjpr 
Opr 
iDJpr 
OJ pr 
tOJpr 
lOI pr 
mi cu 
GiSEKIA 
trailing 
Fl.\x. 
common O ag 
nerved A or 
perennial ^ /C^ or 
three-styled * i | or 
hairy ^ A or 
M.Ulow-flower. ^ A or 
blue and white A or 
Narbonne _AJ or 
reflex-leaved ^ A or 
slender-leaved A or 
narrow-leaved ^ A or 
annual-yellow O or 
sea A or 
Alpine A or 
Austrian A or 
Virginian Q) or 
stiff-leaved O or 
yellow iSt A or 
glaucous-leaved^ A or 
Taurian A or 
upright ^ Q) or 
Spanish ( | or 
tree tt- 1 | or 
African *i- 1 | or 
knotted A w 
purging O w 
tour- leaved tL i | or 
SVJN-DEW. 
round-leaved *i A pr 
long-leaved ^ A pr 
great ^ A pr 
thready-leaved ^ A pr 
IV. COMMERSONIA. 
broad-leaved M [Z2 or 
hairy-leaved it i | or 
w 
C. G. H. 
1774. 
S 
S.1 
w 
C. G. H. 
1774. 
s 
s.l 
w 
C. G. H. 
1774. 
s 
S.I 
Pk 
Italy 
1759. 
s 
s.l 
Pk 
S. Europe 
C. G. H. 
1788. 
s 
S.I 
W 
1774. 
s 
s.l 
W 
C. G. H. 
1774. 
s 
s.l 
Pk 
C. G. H. 
1774. 
s 
s.l 
W 
N. S. W. 
1794. 
s 
S.I 
i jn.o 
i jn.au 
ijl.au 
I my.jn 
ijl 
^jn.jl 
i jn.jl 
i my.n 
Portulacece. Sp. 1 — 5. 
1 jn P.Gr E. Indies 1783. 
Caryophylle^e. Sp. 25—5'i. 
U jn.jl B Britain co. fi. S co 
' Hungary 1822. D co 
England eh. so. D co 
E. Indies 1799. C p.l 
Austria 1759. D co 
Caucasus 1807. D co 
Portugal 1800. D co 
S. France 1759. D co 
S. Europe 1777. D co 
Europe 1759. D co 
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3 jn.au 
2 ja.o 
1| jl.au 
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5 jn.au 
1 my.jl 
1 au 
2 my.au 
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A jl.au 
h jn.au 
2 my.jn 
Broseracece. 
i jl.au W 
i jl.au W 
A jl.au W 
f my.jn Pu 
Pu 
W 
B 
B 
Pk 
Pu 
Y 
Y 
B 
B 
Y 
P.Y 
Y 
Y 
Y 
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Pk 
Y 
Y 
W 
W 
Y 
England sa. pa. D co 
France 1777. " 
S. Europe 1596. 
Austria 1739. 
Austria 1775. 
N. Amer. 1807. 
Missouri 1807. 
Austria 1793. 
Europe 1795. 
Tauria 1795. 
S. Europe 1759. 
Spain 1759. 
Candia 1788. 
C. G. H. 1771. 
Italy 1759. 
Britain dr. pa. S 
C. G. H. 1787. S 
Sp. 4—32. 
Britain tur.bo. S 
Britain tur.bo. S 
England tur.bo. S 
N.Jersey 1811. S 
ButtncriacecB. Sp. 2 — 3. 
3 jn.jl W Moluccas 1806. C 
4 ap.my W N. Holl. 1808. C 
3920 ^tMPMM^^^O^ 
S CO 
D CO 
D CO 
D CO 
D CO 
S CO 
C p.l 
C p.l 
C p.l 
C p.l 
C p.l 
D s.1 
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p.l 
Plant, grass. 55 
Rox. cor. 2. t.l83 
Eng. bot. 1357 " 
Wal. &kit. t.l05 
Eng. bot. 40 
Bot. mag. 1100 
Jac. aust. 1. 1. 31 
Bot. mag. 1048 
Bot. mag. 1087 
Jac. aus. 3. t. 215 
Eng. bot. 381 
Ger.pr. t. 15. f.l 
Jac. vin. 2. 1. 154 
Sweet fl. g. 17 
Bot. mag. 1086 
Bot. mag. 312 
Cav. ic. 2. t. 108 
Bot. mag. 234 
Bot. mag. 403 
Moris, s. 5. t. 6. f. 11 
Eng. bot. 382 
Bot. mag. 431 
Eng. bot. 867 
Ensr. bot. 868 
Eng. bot. 8C9 
Bot. mag. 1813 
Bot. rep. r" ~ 
Historu, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
easily if laid to dry a few days after cutting off; before th(!y are planted, to dry up the wound, that they may not 
rot. They require no covering, but may be placed in any convenient situation." {Sweet.) 
700. Glsekia. In honor of P. D. Giseke, a Danish botanist, who lived about the end of the last century. 
A small weed-like plant, with the habit of Chenopodium. 
701. Linum. Llin, in Celtic, signifies thread, whence Xivov, in Greek, and iinum, and its derivations, in 
Latin. L. usitatissimum, is a well known thread or clothing plant, which has been cultivated from the 
remotest antiquity for its cortical fibres, or boon, which, when separated from the woody matter or harl, as it is 
technically called by the growers, forms the lint and tow which is spun into yarn, and wove into hnen cloth. 
The seeds are sown on well comminuted loamy soil, which is in good heart, in April, broadcast: during 
summer weeds are carefully removed ; and when the plant is in full flower, or (if seed is desired) when the 
seed capsules are ripe, it is pulled up by the roots, the capsules torn off by a comb, and the stalks tied in 
bundles and cai'ried to a pond or pool of stagnated water. Into this water the bundles are thrown, and kept 
under the surface by being loaded with planks, stones, &c. for ten days or a fortnight, till an appearance of 
decay or softness is indicated by the bark ; they are then taken out and spread on the grass, or on the gravelly 
banks of a river for a fortnight, where the alternate dews and heats accelerate the progress of decay. It is 
next taken up, and when quite dry tied into bundles and stacked till wanted by the flax-cleaner. Some cul- 
tivators do not steep the flax in water, but only spread it on the surface of grass ground, which is called dew- 
retting, and has nearly the same effect as the other; but the more recent practice, not yet however very ge- 
neral, is neither to steep or dew-ret, but to dry, bind, and stack as in saving a crop of corn, and afterwards to 
separate the capsules and the fibre by machinery. By this process the fibre is obtained of much greater 
