348 DODECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Reseda. 



R. n. 1058. Hall. Hist V. 2. 12. 



Luteola. Rail Syn. 366. Ger. Em. 494./. 



L. herba, salicis folio. Bauh. Pin. 100. 



Pseudostruthium. Matth. Valgr, v. 2. 643/. Camer. Epit. 356./. 

 Dalech. Hist. 822. f. 



Antirrhinoii. Trag. Hist. 362./. 



jS. Luteola minima, polygalse folio. Dill, in Rail Syn. 367 ? 



In waste ground, especially on a chalky soil, as well as in fallow 

 fields, and on walls. 



/3. In corn-fields on Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells. Mr. Du 

 Bois. 



Annual, July. 



Root tapering. Stem wand-like, striated, leafy, somewhat branched, 

 smooth like the rest of the herb, 2 or 3 feet high. Leaves ses- 

 sile, of a darkish green, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, single- 

 ribbed, occasionally undulated ; frequently furnished with a 

 small tooth on each side at the base. Clusters terminal, erect, 

 many-flowered, dense, pointed. Bracteas small, linear-lanceo- 

 late, acute, solitary at the base of each short simple partial- 

 stalk. Flowers small, without much scent. Petals greenish 

 white, naturally 3 ; the uppermost variously lobed ; lateral ones 

 of 3 acute equal lobes ; but there are occasionally 2 small un- 

 divided petals at the base. Nectary green. Stain, numerous, 

 with yellow anthers. Styles 3. Caps, short, depressed. 



From the description of Du Bois in Ray's Synopsis, the variety j3 

 might be suspected to be R. Sesa7noides of Linnaeus ; but it is ex- 

 pressly said not to belong to the genus Sesanioides of Tourne- 

 fort. 1 have seen no specimens. 



R. Luteola is rather foetid when bruised. It serves for dyeing wool 

 yellow, or, with indigo, green ; the whole plant, when about 

 flowering, being bailed for that purpose. 



2. R. lutea. Base Rocket. Wild Mignonette. 



Leaves deepty three-lobed ; lower ones piimatifid. Calyx 

 in six divisions. 



R. lutea. Linn.Sp.Pl.QAr>. TVilld. V.2.S79. Ft. Br. 513. Engl. 



Bat. V. 5. t. 321. Hook. Scot. 147. Jacq. Austr. t. 353. Bull. 



Ft. t. 281. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 467./, bad. Dalech. Hist. 



1 199,/ not much better. 

 R, n. 1056. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 11. 

 R. vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 100. Rail Syn. 366. 

 R. Piinii. Ger. Em. 277. f. Lob. Ic. 222. f. 

 Base Dyer's Weed. Pet. H. Brit. t.37.f.\\. 

 (3. Reseda crispa gallica. Bocc. Sic. 77. t. 4]./. 3. Dill, in Rail 



Sijn. 366. 



On chalky hills and waste places, abundantly. 

 Annual, or, in mild winters^, perennial. Jjily, August. 



