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the valley by the old fulling-mill. The ftalks are 
about a cubit high, firm, jointed, green *, divided 
into feveral branches, and befprinkled, as it were, 
with drops of blood : Towards their tops, at each 
joint, grow fmall flowers in pairs> on long pedicles, 
of a deep red colour. The leaves refemble thofe 
of Crow-foot Cranes-bill. 
.Linum, Flax. The leaves grow alternately : The 
empalement is monophyllous, tubulous, and di- 
vided into five fegments : It has a Clovegilli- 
fiower flower, confifling of five petals and five 
chives : The ovary arifes from the bottom of the 
empalement, is covered with a thin membrane, 
and emits five long tubes : The fruit is globular, 
I compofed of feveral cells, to the number of ten 
or more, which open inwards : The feeds are 
fmooth, blunt at one end, and generally fliarp 
at the other. The fpecies are : 
i| * 1, Linum^ R.362. fativum^ C. 214, G. E. 556, 
I P, 1335. Manur’d Flax. Sown in the fields. The 
j ftalk rifes about a yard high, fet with long, narrow, 
' glaucous leaves •, which grow alternately, or without 
order : On the tops of the ftalks and branches ftand 
a pretty many fmall blue ftreaked flowers : The 
feed-veffels are round, divided into ten cells, each 
cell containing one flattifh oblong fhining brown 
feed. 
2. Linum fylveftre fat hum plane referens^ R. 362. 
arvenfe^ C. 21^, fylveftre vulgatius^l^, Com- 
I mon Wild Flax. Common among corn. It is ex- 
a6tly like the laft, but that the ftalks are fomething 
thicker, divided into more branches, and have larger 
heads. 
3. Linum fylveftre cceruleum perenne ere^ius^ flo^ 
re C? capitulo majore^ R. 362, Wild Perennial 
Blue Flax the Larger. On Gog-magog hills : Allb 
at Crosby^ Ravenfworth^ and between Shap and 
U’hreapland^ in IVeftmor eland, 
4. Limm 
