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LINUM* ‘sibiricum ; var. Lewisii. 
North-West American Flak. 
eed 
PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. Linex, | 
LINUM UL. — Flores proportione partium quinaria. Sepala integra. 
Styli rarissimé 3, cum petalis staminibus sepalisque 5. Decand. prodr. 
1, 423 
L. sibiricum; glabrum erectum elatum foliis linearibus acutis patulis, 
sepalis ovalibus basi 5-neryiis, exterioribus acutiusculis interioribus 
_ obtusissimis margine membranaceis, petalis integris calyce triplO quad- 
ruplove majoribus. Dec. prodr. vol. 1. p. 427 
L, perenne, var, sibirica. Linn. sp. 397. 
L. austriacum. Bot. mag. t. 1086, not of Linn. 
Var.; foliis glaucis, floribus majoribus. 
L. Lewisii. Pursh. fl. am. sept. 1. 210. ; 
Perenne, glabrum, glaucum. Caules erecti, pedales. Folia linearia, 
utrinque acuta, patentia, avenia. Sepala ovata, acuta, basi 3-venia, in- 
tertortbus margine membranaceis. Petala pallidé cerulea, apice rotundata, 
integra, calyce 3-pld majora. 
A handsome, hardy perennial, native of the north-west 
country of North America, whence it was sent to the 
Horticultural Society, in 1826, by Mr. Douglas. It is 
about a foot or foot and half high ; and flowers during mye 
June, and July. 
We have no doubt that Nuttall is right in referring this 
to the Linum sibiricum, from which, judging from our 
wild specimens from Dr. Fischer, it differs in nothing 
except having larger flowers, and in being more glaucous. 
The existence of the same plant in Siberia and north- 
* The avy of the Greeks, which was probably the same as our common 
flax, is derived by De Theis from the Celtic word din, signifying a thread ; 
whence comes linen in English, linge in French, and linum, with its deriva- 
tives, in Latin. 
