+ 
227 
RESEDA odorata. 0. suffrutescens. 
Tree-Mignonette. 
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DODECANDRIA TRIGYNTA. 
. Nat. ord. CAPPARIDES, Jussieu gen. 242, Div. I. Genera Cappa» 
ridibus affinia. 
RESEDA, Саі. 4-6-partitus. Pet. hypogyna, 4-6 аш plura, irregu- 
laria, nunc omnia trifida, nunc quedam indivisa, supremo ad basin glan- 
dulosa gibbo et пећ его. Stam. hypogyna, filamentis brevibus, antheris 
erectis. Germ. subsessile; styli 3-5, aut 0; stig. 9-5. Caps. angulata 1-loc. 
polysperma, receptaculis seminiferis 3-5-angularibus; sem, numerosa гепі- 
formia; emóryo incurvus absque albumine. Herbe; folia alterna basi 
2-glandulosa, indivisa in Luteolà Tourn. et in Sesamoide Tourn., partita in 
Reseda Tourn. ; flores spicati terminales ; capsula Resedz oblonga prismatica 
apice retusa, Luteole: brevior ртојипа а divisa et quasi 3 rostris, Sesamoidis 
5-partita patens, quasi stellatim 5-capsularis. Numerus partium varius, con- 
stans hiatus capsule el glandula petali supremi. Genus à Capparidibus dis- 
отеран petalorum et stigmatum numero, cæterùm affine pracipu? embryone. 
Juss, 
R. odorata, foliis integris trilobisque, calycibus florem squantibus. Linn. 
3p. pl. 1. 646. 
Reseda odorata. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.6. Hort. Kew. 2. 133. ed. 2. 8. 155. 
Curtis's magaz. 99. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 881. Desfont, atl. 1. 376. Lamarck 
encyc. 6. 162. . ar 
R. foliis integris trilobisque, floribus tetragynis. Mill. ic. tab. 217. 
(8) suffrutescens, 
"This well-known annual is here presented in the state of 
a suffrutescent perennial; a form it has been made to 
assume by appropriate treatment. The species is native of 
Egypt, and was also found wild by Professor Desfontaines, 
in the sands near Mascar, on the coast of Barbary. Stated 
in the Hortus Kewensis to have been first cultivated by Miller 
in 1752; but, by a MS. note in Sir Joseph Banks's library, 
we find the seed was sent in 1742 by Lord Bateman, front 
the Royal Garden at Paris, to Mr. Richard Bateman, at Old 
Windsor, Professor Desfontaines marks it as annual in his 
Flora Atlantica; se that it does not seem to be longer lived 
in its proper climate than here, where advancing winter 
infallibly destroys it in the open ground. 
The plant we һауе figured was brought by Lady Whit- 
shed from Liége, and given by her to Sir Joseph Banks, 
under whose observation none had ever fallen in this shape. 
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