casual observer, will have no difficulty in recognising their 

 obvious relationship, especially if the details of fructifica- 

 tion be carefully considered ; but if either of those plants 

 be compared with the Mignonette, it will not be found so 

 easy to reconcile the habit and structure of that plant with 

 such as this; and a tyro would be tempted to lay aside 

 the study of a natural system, in which such combinations 

 are admitted, as something unintelligible and delusive. We 

 should not only not wonder at such an effect being pro- 

 duced, but should partake in the opinion ourselves. To us 

 it seems, that if the principles upon which a natural system 

 of Botany is founded, are such as to render it necessary to 

 combine Reseda and Capparis, those principles must re- 

 quire reconsideration ; but we think the combination alluded 

 to, for which several eminent Botanists contend, is not 

 reconcilable with even the present state of our knowledge 

 of vegetable comparative anatomy. 



Stem shrubby, growing about 3 feet high in a pot, with 

 somewhat flexuose, smooth branches. Leaves stalked, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, smooth on each side. Flowers 

 white, axillary, solitary, their peduncle rather longer than 

 the petiole. Se'pals 4, ovate, ciliated. Petals the same 

 number, small, obovate. Stamens very long, unequal. 



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