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styles, with .3 — 5 complete dissepiments (of 2 membranes) and 
4—5 incomplete dissepiments. Seeds 1 in each spurious cell, 
pendulous, with albumen. — L. without stipules, alternate. 
1. LiN'UM. Sep. 5. Pet. 5. Stam. 5. Styles 5. Caps, with 
10 cells and 10 valves. 
2. Radiola. Sep. 4, connected below, deeply ti'ifid. Pet. 4. 
Stam. 4. Styles 4. Caps, with 8 cells and 8 valves. 
1. Li'ntjm Linn. Flax. 
* Leaves scattered. Margins of the sep. not glandular. 
1. L. angmtifiilium (Iluds.) ; caps, downy within, sep. elliptic 
pointed ciliate, 1. linear-lanceolate, st. mamj. — E. B. 381. — FL 
pale blue. St. 1 — 2 feet long, lax, diffuse, branching iiTegularly. 
— Sandy and chalky places in the South and West. P. YII. E. I. 
\^L. usitatis'simum (L.) ; caps, glabrous within, sep. ovate 
pointed ciliate, 1. lanceolate, st. solitary. — E. B. 1357. St. 26. 
12.— Fl. blue. St. 1— li foot high. Sep. 3-veined.— ^. cre}n- 
tans ( Schub.) ; smaller and more branched, caps, opening with 
elasticity, seeds paler. — In cultivated fields. A. VII. Common 
Flax.'] ' 
2. L.peren'ne (L.) ; sep. obovate obscurely 5-veined glabrous, 
inner sep. veiy blunt, 1. linear-lanceolate, st. many, fruitstalks 
erect. — E. B. 40. — Fl. blue. St. 1 — 2 ft. long, erect or decum- 
bent. — Chalky places, rare. P. VI. VII. E. 
** Leaves opposite. 
3. L. cathar'ticitm (L.) ; sep. elliptic pointed, I. opposite obovate, 
upper 1. lanceolate. — E. B. 382.— Fl. white, small ; sep. seiTate ; 
pet. acute. St. one or more, slender, 2 — 6 in. high. Panicle 
forked, spreading. — In diy pastures. A. \1. — VIII. E. S. I. 
2. Kadio'la Omel. Flax-seed. All-seed. 
1. R. milkgrdna {^m.).~-E. B. 893. R. linoid.es DC, Koch. 
— St. 1 — 2 in. high, repeatedly forked, with solitai-y minute 
white fl. in the forks as well as at the ends of the branches. 
Sep. deeply and acutely 3-cleft, connected below into a tube. — 
Damp sandy places. A. VII. VIU. E. S. I. 
Order XXI. BALSAMINACEJ5. 
Sep. 5 (2 upper usually wanting), irregidar, deciduous, lower 
spun-ed, imbricate in the bud. Pet. 5, in-egidar, the lateral 
united in pairs. Stam. 5. Anth. 2-celled, opening at the apex 
