Linum cruciatum Planch.

Cathartolinum cruciata (Planch.) Small
Linum Cruciala Planch. Lond. Jour. Bot. 7 : 499. 1848.
Perennial, glabrous at least to the inflorescence, the stems 1-3 dm. tall, obsoletely striate, corymbosely branched above, the inflorescence-branches slender, prominently striate ; leaves numerous, whorled, sometimes alternate above, erect-spreading, spreading or reflexed, the blades elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 0.5-1 cm. long, toothed and often glandular-margined, otherwise glabrous, acute ; bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, and finely glandulartoothed ; outer sepals lanceolate, becoming 4^1.5 mm. long, acute, evenly glandulartoothed ; inner sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, more closely toothed than the outer ; petals yellow ; filaments glabrous ; staminodia 2-lobed ; ovary and distinct styles glabrous ; capsules not seen.
Type locality : Tepic, Mexico. Distribution : Mexico.