DODECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Reseda. 347 



Nat. Orel. Miscellanece. Linn. 54. Capparidcs. Juss. 64. 

 llesedacea:. DeCand. 31. Hook. Scot, p. 2. 204-. This 

 order is marked with a sign of doubt by the learned 

 M. DeCandolle himself, and it is indeed very anomalous 

 and obscure. I can trace no affinity in Reseda to any 

 other order; certainly not to EupJiorbicv^ or Tricoccce. 



Cal. inferior, of one leaf, deeply divided into several nar- 

 row, spreading, irregular, permanent segments. Pet. 3, 

 4, 5 or 6, unequal, deciduous, variously, for the most 

 part, jagged, some of them 3-cleft; the uppermost con- 

 cave at the base, as long as the calyx ; the lowermost 

 ol'ten undivided. Nect. a flat, erect, solid, permanent, 

 coloured gland, at the upper side of the flower, pro- 

 ceeding from the receptacle, between the uppermost pe- 

 tal, or petals, and the stajyiens. Filam. 1 1 or 1 5, in some 

 instances moi*e, short, capillary, drooping. A7ith. elliptic- 

 oblong, erect. Germ, superior, angular, unequally tumid. 

 Styles 3, rarely 4-, terminal, short, or scarcely any. Stig- 

 mas obtuse. Caps, pitcher-shaped, angular, tumid, cori- 

 aceous, open at the top between the styles, of 1 cell. 

 Seeds numerous, kidney-shaped, stalked, ranged along 3 

 lateral longitudinal receptacles. 



The styles are occasionally 4 in various species, and the re- 

 ceptacles of the seeds always agree with them in number. 

 Nothing can be more various, or more changeable, than 

 the forms of ihe petals, or number of the stamens. The 

 plants are herbaceous, their surface minutely papillary, 

 not hairy; when bruised they are foetid, though the 

 Jlotaers of some are fragrant. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 mosdy pinnatifid. Fl. numerous, pallid, racemose. 



Mr. J. Lindle}^, in a work no less scientific than splendid, 

 has given a most ingenious, though perhaps too meta- 

 physical, view of this genus, in which he considers the 

 flowers as aggregate, or capitate, the lateral ones being 

 but rudiments, represented by some of the petals, and 

 the central one alone perfect. Mr. Brown's idea of An- 

 thoxantlnun and Hierochloe, see vol. 1. 37 and 110, is 

 somewhat analogous to this. 



1. R. Liitcola. Dyer's Rocket. Yellow-weed, or 



Weld. 

 Leaves lanceolate, undivided. Calyx in four segments. 

 R. Lutcola. Linn. Sp.Pl.GAZ. M'ilhL v. 2. 876. FL Br. b\2. 

 Engl. Bot. f. 5. f. 320. Mart. Bust. t. 10. Hook. Scot. 147. 



