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flaxe


Title The Flax plant
Origtitle Just the flax, ma'am
Caption IT's a flax plant
Source Flax Enthusiast Quarterly
Date 1588
Origin The Planet Flax
Occurrences

flaxe

Alternate Spelling Occurrences

Flaxe / Flaxe

Additional Notes

Hariot p.8 Hariet says that flax and hemp are of “no great store in any one place, by reason it is not planted … He apparently found naturally growing plants having similar attributes except “leafe, and stemme or stalk does differ from ours”, but has expectation that, if planted, these plants will “growe in cordage and linnins’. {H&D} NOTE: Radford considers L. medium as a var. of L. virginianum, and not a separate species as indicated by H&D. The other possible species of flax would be L. striatum. - Dr. Vince Bellis