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flower-stalks are angular, and the five styles in the centre of the flower appear to be united into one. This species 
is a native of New Zealand, whence it was introduced about 1835 ; and it should be grown in a mixture of peat 
and loam. It is almost hardy, but it requires a little protection during winter. It is propagated by division of 
the roots, cuttings, or seeds. 
3.— LINUM VISCOSUM, Lin. THE CLAMMY FLAX. 
Synonymes L. hypericifolium, Sal. ; L. venustum, Andr. ; Specific Chahacteb. — Leaves lanceolate ; three or five nerved, 
Yellow-flowered Flax. alternate, and somewhat opposite ; partly covered with glandular hairs. 
Engravings. — Dot. Mag., t. 1018; Bot. Rep., t. 477; and our Styles shorter than the stamens, or nearly equal to them. 
fy. 1 in Plate 27. 
Description, &c. — This is a very handsome species, of which there are several varieties, difiering but little 
from each other ; the most showy being that figured in Plate 27, under the name of L. hypericifolium. This 
variety is a native of Mount Caucasus, but the species is found wild in Germany and Italy. Both the species 
and the varieties are quite hardy, and only require planting in rich loamy soil. They are perennials, but do not 
live many years. They may be propagated either by seeds or cuttings. 
4.— LINUM ASCYRIFOLIUM, Sims. THE ASCYRON-LEAVED, OR BLUE-AND-WHITE FLAX. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag. t. 1087 ; and our Jig. 3, in Plate 27. 
Specific Character. — Leaves alternate, three-nerved, ovate, cor- 
date, pubescent, upper ones somewhat opposite. Flowers somewhat 
spiked ; sepals acuminated, hairy. (G. Don). 
Description, &c. — This very handsome species has the flowers white, streaked with bluish veins. This 
flax, we are told in the Botanical Magazine, was first found by Clusius, who, " in his account of the plants of 
Spain and Portugal, describes a sort of Flax which he met with near a deserted church in Portugal, putting forth 
fresh shoots in the month of November, and luckily with some of the seed-vessels still remaining on the withered 
stalks. These he took with him to Holland, and raised a single plant, which continued to bear flowers at the 
latter end of the summer for some years, but produced no seed. He describes this plant as bearing from one root 
three or four slender downy stems a foot high, divided near the top into two or three branches, rolled back at their 
extremities, and covered with white flowers veined with purple, nearly as large as those of the Mallow. The 
leaves, he says, are rather wide, downy, three-nerved, and not unlike those of the Ascyron {Hypericum qua- 
drangular e)'.' It is evident that L. ascyrifolium\% ^\& same as the plant described by Clusius ; and it was 
introduced in 1800. It has, however, long been lost ; and it is in the hope that it may be reintroduced, that it 
has been here described so much at length. It is quite hardy in British gardens, and only requires to be grown 
in a rich loamy soil, like the other species. 
6 — LINUM SIBIRICUM, Dec. THE SIBERIAN FLAX. 
Synonymes L. perenne, var. Sibirica, Lin,; L. austriacum, 
Sims. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag. t. 1086; and out Jig. 4 in Plate 27. 
Specific Character. — Plant glabrous, erect, tall. Leaves linear. 
acute, spreading, ■without dots. Sepals oval, 5-ncrved at the base, 
outer ones acutish, inner ones very blunt, all with membranaceous 
margins. Petals entire, three or four times larger than the calyx. 
(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. — This very handsome plant difiiers from the common perennial flax in having much larger 
flowers, which are of a deeper blue, and form a more compact panicle. It is found wild in Siberia, and also in 
Austria ; and it is generally found in nurseries under the name of the Austrian flax. It is quite hardy, and will 
grow in any soil that is not too light. It is propagated by parting the roots. 
