DODECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Reseda. 349 



Root rather woody, in dry warm countries or seasons, often pe- 

 rennial. Stem bushy, about 2 feet high, branched, striated, 

 leafy, smooth. Leaves somewhat stalked, smooth, in 3 linear- 

 oblong-, decurrent, entire, flat or wavy, principal segments ; the 

 lower ones more numerously divided, and pinnatitid. Clusters 

 terminal, many-flowered, tapering, with longer partial stalks 

 than the last, each having a narrow bractea at the base. Fl. buft- 

 coloured, slightly scented. Pet. C, variously lobed. Nectary 

 green, notched, and fringed. Caps, oblong, prismatic, very un- 

 even at the sides. 



/3 is a slight variety, though supposed by tlie great Sherard, on ac- 

 count of its often perennial root, to be a distinct species. The 

 Sweet Mignonette, R. odorata, thougli usually annual, may by 

 care in a greenhouse, and constant pruning, be rendered peren- 

 nial, and even shrubby. 



EUPHORBIA, })laced by Linnaeus in this Order, is now 

 understood hy Jussieu and Brown to have separated 

 flowers, conformably to the general character of its natu- 

 ral order. What Linnaeus and others have taken for 

 stamens^ appear to be distinct monandrous barren Jio'iscer^^ 

 destitute of ccihix and corolla^ and each consisting mer. ly 

 of a stamen., distinguished from its stalk by a sej)arating 

 joint only, occasionally marked with some discoloration. 

 The number of these^otcvT*? is indefinite, their period of 

 perfection various, and they stand, several together, in 

 one common involucrum^ with a central, solitary, /tv///^.' 

 Jloxver. Conse(juently FAiphorbia is to be removed to 

 Monoecia Mona n dria. 



