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17. LINACEiE. 
people not altogether disagreeable scent, something like that of 
a tan-yard, but combined with a pleasant aroma. 
Several other sp. of shrubby garden JPelargonia are very 
common or occasionally almost semi-naturalized. But the two 
preceding are the most generally or abundantly diffused. 
Order XVII. LINACE^E. 
The Flax Family. 
Sep. 5 or 4 persistent imbricate. Cor. regular. Pet. 5 or 4 
fugacious clawed twisted in the bud, sometimes cohering. 
Stam. 5 or 4 alternate with the pet., with intermediate teeth 
(abortive stam.), from a hypogynous ring or disk. Ov. 5-4- 
celled. Stigmas 5 or 4 capitate. Caps, tipped with the hard- 
ened remains of the styles, imperfectly 10- or 8-celled, i. e. each 
of the 5 or 4 complete cells more or less completely subdivided 
by a spuiious partial dissepiment. Seeds 1 in each spurious 
cell compressed pendulous with little or no albumen. Embryo 
straight. — L. alternate without stipules veinless, entire. 
1. Linum. Sep. pet. and stam. 5. Styles 5, rarely 3. Caps. 
10-celled 10-valved, rarely 6-celled 6-valved. 
2. Radiola. Sep. 4 connected downwards, each deeply 2-3- 
fid. Pet. stam. and styles 4. Caps. 8-celled 8-valved. 
1. Lixuai L. 
Flax. 
* Edge of sep. glandular-ciliate. FI. yellow. 
1. L. GALLICUM L. 
Herbaceous smooth ; st. single mostly simple erect ; 1. linear- 
lanceolate minutely serrulate-scabrous at the edge; panicle 
loose corymbose, its branches angular quite smooth ; sep. lan- 
ceolate glandular-ciliate downwards, attenuated upwards into 
a sharp roughish point, half as long again as the caps. ; pedic. 
in fr. a little longer or a little shorter than the cal. — Brot. i. 
483; Buch 196. no. 350; Presl 169; WB. i. 27; Koch 138. 
L. gallicum (3. medium DC. i. 423. L. aureum Waldst. and 
Kit. ii. t. 177 (not DC.). — Herb. aim. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3 ; ccc. 
Sunny hill-sides and mountain pastures everywhere ; neigh- 
bourhood of Funchal at the top of rocks between the Valle 
Quinta and R. de Joao Gomez; Curral das liomeiras ; at Ca- 
macha, Prazeres, Ac. May-Sept. — A small delicate incon- 
spicuous pi. from 2-10 in. high. St. sometimes but rarely 
branched from the base, otherwise simple erect straight slender 
