. Flowers of the field. Botany. q8 j,{neje ages supplied the valuable textile substance which derives from it the name " linen " ; the mucilaginous seeds jire employed in "linseed " poultices; and, when crushed, yield "linseed oil," the chief oil used in painting, and the refuse "oilcake," used as food for cattle. 1. Kauiola.—I'linven tetramerous ; scpah trifid. 2. LiiNUM.—77(«'fVi-pentamerous ; .fty'i;7A-entire. r. (Flax-seed, Allseed). A minute annual herb; stiin filiform, repeatedly forked ; floiuers termmal and in the forks ; sepals 4, deepl
. Flowers of the field. Botany. q8 j,{neje ages supplied the valuable textile substance which derives from it the name " linen " ; the mucilaginous seeds jire employed in "linseed " poultices; and, when crushed, yield "linseed oil," the chief oil used in painting, and the refuse "oilcake," used as food for cattle. 1. Kauiola.—I'linven tetramerous ; scpah trifid. 2. LiiNUM.—77(«'fVi-pentamerous ; .fty'i;7A-entire. r. (Flax-seed, Allseed). A minute annual herb; stiin filiform, repeatedly forked ; floiuers termmal and in the forks ; sepals 4, deeply ^nd acutely 3-cleft, united below; petals 4, fugacious. (Name, a duni- nutive from the Latin radius, a ray, from the radiating branches.) I. R. linbides (Common Flax-seed), the only species, a minute plant, never exceed- ing four inches in height, bearing ovate- acute leaves and & large number of minute white flowers, which, as the plants generally (Comiiwn ). grow many together, often prevent its being overlooked.—Darnp heaths ; frequent.— Fl. July, August. Annual. 2. LiNUM (f<lax).—Herbs or smalKshrubs ; leaves scattered, or rarely opposite; flowers in cymes, 'pentamerous; sepals 5, entire ; petals 5, fugacious ; disk of five glands opposite the petals ; stamens 5, with 5 staminodes between them ; ovary 5-chambered, chambers di\'ided ahnost into 2 ; styles'5 ; ovules 10 ; fruit cap- sular. (Name, the I^atin name of the plan^, perhapis of Keltic origin.) 1. L. cathdrticum (Cathartic Flax).]—A very slender, much- branched, glabrous plant, rarely exceeding 6 in. in height ; leaves mostly opposite, linear-oblong; flowers numerous, \ in. across, white, in dichasial cymes, drooping before expansion ; sepals pointed, i-veined.—Dry pastures ; common.—Fl. June—August. Annual. 2. L. pereiuie (Perennial k'lax).—A 'slender plant about a foot high, with wiry s/ei/is : very narrow, scattered, sessile learvs, tapering to a point; sepals obovate, obtus
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