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OTHER SPECIES OF SAPONARIA. 
S. ELEGANS, Lap. 
With large rose-coloured flowers; 
S. LUTEA, Lin. 
With yellow flowers ; and 
S. BELLIDIFOLIA, Smith. 
With crimson flowers and golden-yellow stamens, are all very handsome, but they are only half-hardy. 
CHAPTER X. 
LINACEiE. 
Character of the Order. — Sepals three to five. Petals three to i Styles three to five. Capsule ten-celled ; cells two-seeded. Seeda 
five, hypogjnous. Stamens three to five, combined at the base. | compressed. 
GENUS I. 
LINUM, Bank. THE FLAX. 
Lin.Syst. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Sepals five, entire. Petals five. Stamens five. Styles five ; rarely one, or three. {G.Don.) 
Desciiiption, &c. — The different kinds of Flax are all handsome flowers ; and like many other plants, they 
contradict De Candolle's hypothesis, that bright yellow and bright blue flowers are never found in the same genus. 
The word Linum is from the Celtic word for thread, in allusion to the use made of the fibres of the annual 
species, L. vsitatissimum. 
furnished "with two glands at the base of each, alternate, narrow, lan- 
ceolate, acute, sessile, with smooth margins. Branches of panicle 
dichotoraous. Corolla monopetalous, five-cleft. Sepals acuminate, 
serrulated f petals very blunt, three times longer than the calyx. 
1.— LINUM FLAVUM, Lin. THE YELLOW FLAX 
Synonymes. — L.campanulatum,j3/)^c. ; L. monopetalum, Steph.; 
L. latifolium luteum, Bauh. ; L. glandulosum, e Dec. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag. t. 312 ; Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard., 2d ser. 
t. 303 ; and our^i^s. 5 and 6 in Plato 27. 
Specific Character. — Plant woody at the base, greenish. Leaves 
Description, &c. — This very pretty plant, which grows about a foot high, is found in great abundance near 
hedges and among woods on mountains in Germany and Switzerland. It is quite hardy in British gardens, and 
succeeds best in a stiff moist soil. The flowers begin to expand in June, and they continue opening in succession 
tliroughout July and August ; and they are followed by seeds, by which the plant may bo increased, or by 
division of the roots, or cuttings. It was introduced in 1793. 
2.— LINUM MONOGYNUM, Forst. THE ONE-STYLED FLAX. 
acutely three-nerved. Flowers corymbose ; oalyeine leaver ovate-laa- 
ceolate, acute, keeled. Styles connate. 
Engravings. — Swt. Brit. Flow. Gard. 2d ser. t. 370 ; and om fig. 
2 in Plate 27. 
Specific Character. — Perennial, erect, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, 
Description, &c. — This species has white flowers, which are produced in corymbose clusters, so as to form 
a showy head. The loaves are lanceolate and spreading ; and they are quite of a glaucous or bluish green. The 
