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LETTER XXX. 
JUNE. 
LET us take this left hand road "to I/- 
the Hills: we fhall probably meet num * 
with fome new objects. That upright 
(lender plant, with a fingle fimple ftem, 
thick fet with very fmall pointed leaves, 
and terminated by a tuft of beautiful 
blue flowers, is the Linum perenne, or 
perenniel blue Flax. The five petals 
will fall offalmoft as foon as you touch 
them. You will then difcover fivey&z- 
mina and the fame number of ptftilla. 
Pentandria Pentagynia^ therefore, is 
the Clafs and Order. That it is a Li- 
nunty I know, from its pentaphyllous 
calyx, its pentapetalous corolla, its quin- 
que valve capfule, and its folitary feeds; 
and, that it is theperenne, I learn, from 
the fegments of the calyx being obtufe, 
the leaves on. the flem numerous, fmall, 
alternate, and by the flowers growing 
in a tuft. 
We have, in Britain, five fpecies of /- 
fiutns, as you will find in your Synopfa. No. i . 
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