204 DICOTYLEDONS?. THYMELEiE. Dapklie. 



cordate and as well as the linear mucronated leaves entire, 

 p. U^,— Woods. 



Order VIII. HESEDACKE. Decand. ^ 



Flowers sterile and perfect, in heads. Perianth scutelliform, 

 oblique. Slam, definite, perigynous. ^/zi/ieri oblong, innate. 

 Ovari/ 1 -celled, 3-Iobed, with three parietal many-seeded re- 

 cepiaclcs. Stigma 1 to each lobe, simple, sessile. Capsule 

 open at the suninilt, 1-celled, many-seeded. Seeds suspended, 

 reniform. Embryo curved, without albumen. Radicle superior. 



Stems herbaceous, rough with little minute transparent papillae. 

 Leaves mostly compound, alternate, without stipules. Floiv- 

 ers with an involucre. 



1. RESEDA. 



Floiuers capitate. ExternalT^ore/i sterile, the central one perfect, 



1. R. Ltileola, leaves lanceolate entire plane, p. 147. — IVaste 

 places. 



2. R. hilea, leaves pinnated, upper ones with 3 segments, p. W7. 

 — Waste places. 



Order IX. THYMELE/E. 



Perimilh free, tubular, persistent, often coloured. Slam. S, in 

 two rows, included in the perianth; 4 o|)posite the segments 

 and 4 alternate with them. Style simple, inserted beneath 

 the apex of the ovary. Stigma simple. Drupe ox Aclienium 

 1-seeded. Seed pendulous. Embryo surroimded by a small 

 quantity of albumen. Radicle superior. Cotyledons fleshy. 



Shrubs with simple, entire, alternate leaves. Flowers solitary 

 or aggregate, terminal or axillary. Mirb. 



1. DAPHNE. 



Per?V/w//i tubular, 4 -lobed. Stam. S. Style shovt. Berry l- 

 celledj I- seeded. 



' In adopting the order Rcsedacccr. of M. DccandoUo, we have taken an 

 entirely new view of the structure of the very curious plants of which it is 

 composed. It would occupy more space than we can at present spare to 

 explain all the motives by which we have been influenced. But wc are sure 

 that in ]>oint of affinity it will be evident to any one that it approaches 

 Euphorbiacecc much more nearly than either Droseraccce or Capparidece, to 

 which it appears to us to have no sort of resemblance ; except indeed in its 

 parietal mode of placentation. Ochradeims of Delile is the only other ge- 

 nus of the order with which we are acquainted. 



