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FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS 



(See Fig. 100.) Reseda is the most iinportant genus, and includes the 

 fragrant garden mignonette {R. odorafa). A yellow dye and paint is 

 obtained from the yellow-weed or dyers'-weed of Europe, B. LuteoJa. 



Family Moringaceae. Moringa Fam- 

 ily. Consists of a single genus, J/o- 

 riiign, with 3 species, natives of south- 

 ern Asia. They are trees with pinnate 

 leaves and clusters of rather conspic- 

 uous HoAvers, the calyx and corolla 

 each with five divisions; stamens 8 or 

 10; ovary simple, stalked, becoming in 

 fruit a 8-valved spongy capsule. The 

 Avinged seeds of J/, pferygo-speriita are 

 called ben-nuts, and yield a clear tiuid oil much used by watclimakers; 

 the roots are pungent, like those of the horseradish. 



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Fig. lOO. Flower and fruit of dyer'.- 

 weed (Reseda Liileola) twice natural size. 

 Original. 



