Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part L) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 610 650 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Linum usitatum Linnaeus , Flora Anglica : 14. 1754 , orth. var. RCN: 2204. Lectotype (Seegeler in Taxon 38: 278, f. 1. 1989): Herb. Clifford: 114, Linum 1 ( BM ) . Current name: Linum usitatissimum L. ( Linaceae ). Note: An orthographic variant of L. usitatissimum L. (1753) , as noted by Stearn ( Introd. Ray's Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit. (Ray Soc. ed.): 68. 1973).