DICOTYLEDONS. 93 



RESEDA. 



Annual ; stems diffuse, widely branched ; leaves sessile, 

 entire or lobed, smooth ; flowers in close racemes or spikes ; 

 petals 4-7, toothed or cleft; stamens 8-30, inserted at one 

 side of the flower; capsule 3-6-lobed, opening at the top 

 before the seeds mature. 



R. ODORATA L. Mignonette. Stem widely diffuse, 6-12 in. 

 high, smooth ; leaves cuneiform, entire or 3-lobed ; flowers small, 

 greenish-yellow, very fragrant ; petals deeply 7-13-cleft. April- 

 July. Often cultivated. From Egypt. 



49. SARRACENIACEiE. PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY. 



Perennial, acaulescent, marsh herbs ; leaves tubular or 

 trumpet-shaped ; flowers single, nodding, on a naked or 

 bracted scape ; sepals 4-5, colored, persistent ; petals 5, 

 deciduous, or sometimes wanting; stamens numerous ; pistil 

 compound, 5-celled, many-ovuled, style terminal, nearly as 

 broad as the flower, peltate. 



SARRACENIA. 



Rootstock short, horizontal ; scape naked ; leaves trumpet- 

 shaped with a ventral wing extending nearly to the base and 

 a broad lamina at the apex ; tube hairy within, with down- 

 ward-pointing, stiff hairs ; calyx 3-bracted ; petals obovate, 

 drooping or incurved ; style umbrella-shaped, 5-angled ; stig- 

 mas at the hooked angles of the style; capsule globose, 

 rough. [The tubular leaves usually contain more or less 

 water and dead insects, the latter having been attracted by a 

 lioney-like secretion near the ojiening. For a full account of 

 the structure and i)eculiar action of the leaves, see Goodale's 

 Plil/siolnrjical Botany, pp. 347-353.] 



\. S. I'URiTKKA L. SiDK-SADDi.K Fi.owEu. Lcavos asciMidiug, 

 curved, l)roadly winged, inuj^le-vcined, 4-8 in. long; lamina erect, 

 round-cordate, liairy on ilie inner side; scapes 1'2-lS in. tall; flower 

 deep purj)!.'. ;il)()ul, 2 in. looiul ; style yellowisli. April-^hly. Mo.ssy 

 swamps. 



