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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Line®. 
Order LINEiE. 
Cand. Theorie Elementaire de la Botanique, ed. i. 89. 
Elowers bisexual, symmetrical. Sepals 5, rarely 4, imbricate in bud, persistent. 
Petals 5, rarely 4, alternate with the sepals, unguiculate, twisted in bud, deciduous. 
Stamens free or towards the base connate; 5 opposite to the sepals, 5 opposite to the 
petals, all fertile or the latter either sterile or wanting. Anthers two-celled, introrse; 
cells parallel, longitudinally dehiscent. Pollen-grains smooth. Glands 5-10, rarely 
1 or 3 or 4, adnate to the base of the stamens. Ovary 5-celled, rarely 3- or 4-celled, 
with two collateral axil suspended ovules in each cell, or seldom completely 10-celled 
and with a solitary ovule in each cell. Styles 5, rarely 3 or 4, free or connate. 
Stigmas free, simple. Eruit capsular, rarely drupaceous, 5-10-celled, rarely 3-4- 
celled or by abortion 1-celled. Seeds pendulous, with very scanty rarely with copious 
u 11)amen. 7 ihnJrryo straight or slzc/htly curved . Cotyledons flat. Hadicle superior, 
Herbs or half-shrubs, rarely shrubs or trees, dispersed over the temperate zones, 
rare within the tropics. Stems inarticulate. Stipules wanting or indicated by glands, 
seldom perfectly developed. Leaves simple, alternate, less frequently opposite, rarely 
verticillate, entire, seldom serrated. Pedicels paniculate, racemose, corymbose, 
cymose or solitary, articulated at the summit. Color of petals various.— Planchon, in 
Kook. Lond. Journ. vi. 588. 
Linese, in the circumscription adopted by Dr. Planchon, bring the Gruinal 
orders in contact not only with Caryophyllese, but also with many others of Thalami- 
florse. 
LINUM. - 
IAnne, Syst. Natur. edit. Gfmelin. tom. ii. pars i. 313.—Flax. 
Sepals 5, lobeless. Petals 5, inappendiculate, membranous. Fertile filaments 5, linear-subulate, 
connate and glandulose at the base; sterile stamens tooth-like or undeveloped. Styles 5, free or 
connate. Stigmas capitate or elongate. Capsule formed by the concrescence of five imperfectly rarely 
perfectly vertical-bilocellate separable carpels, which burst internally and at the summit. Secondary 
septa parietal. Avis of fruit undeveloped. -Seeds ovate, compressed, solitary in the secondary cells. 
Moistened testa mucous. Albumen very scanty. Embryo oily-fleshy. 
Herbs or half-shrubs, often glabrous, occurring in the more temperate and colder zones and on 
higher mountains within the tropics. Bast tenacious. Stipules wanting or represented by glands. 
Leaves entire, one-nerved or longitudinally tliree-nerved, small, inconspicuously or finely veined, 
usually sessile. Flowers ebracteolate, cor 3 -mbo.se, racemose, cymose or paniculate. Pedicels usually 
opposite to a leaf. Petals blue, white or yellow, rarely red. Filaments persistent. Anthers deciduous. 
Capsule generally' globular and short-pointed.— Planchon, in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 593 and 597-98. 
Xiinum marginale, All. Cunn. according to Planchon in Hooli. Lond. Journ. of Bot. vii. 169; /■ 
Hook. FI. Tasm. i. 46; L. angustifolium, Bartl. in Lehm. PI. Preiss. i. 161. 
