290 RESEDACEAE 
1. CLEOME, L. 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves compound, leaflets radiating, 3- or 7-foliate. 
Calyx of 4 sepals; stamens 6, equal. Seed-pod elongated, like the silique 
of mustard, many seeded. 
C. spinosa, L. (Fig. 9, pl. 57.) Spiper Frowrer. Plant 2 to 4 ft. 
high, erect. Stem and leaves furnished with soft hairs. Leaves divided 
into 7 leaflets radiating from the common center. Lower leaves with 
rather long leaf-stalks, upper with short leaf-stalks or none. Leaflets 
lance-shaped. Above, the leaves become simple, not divided into leaflets, 
egg-shaped or heart-shaped at base. Flowers of 4 purple or whitish 
petals, each with a long, slender claw. The flower is about an in, broad. 
The stamens are two or three times as long as the petals. Seed-pod 2 to 
6 in. long. In the southern part of our area, New York and New Jersey. 
2. POLANISIA, Raf. 
Herbs with a disagreeable odor. Leaves divided into 3 radiating leaf- 
lets. Flowers in clusters, small, white or yellowish. Stamens 9 to 12. 
Pod cylindrie. 
P. graveolens, Raf. (Fig. 7, pl. 57.) Ciammy Weep. Branching, 
3 to 14 ft. high. Leaves 3-foliate (clover-formed); leaflets oblong, 
obtuse, without teeth or notches. Flowers in terminal clusters, yellow- 
ish-white. Stamens about 11. Pod 1 to 2 in. long. Sandy shores, our 
area and southward. June-Aug. 
Famity IV.—RESEDACEAE. MicNonertTe FAMILY 
Annual or perennial herbs with unsymmetrical flowers, intro- 
duced from Europe and only found growing wild in our region 
in certain localities where the species have become naturalized in 
waste places near sea-ports. Leaves alternate, either simple or 
compound, feather-formed. Flowers in spikes; calyx of 4 to 7 
parts and corolla of about as many. Stamens, in our species, 3. 
RESEDA, L. 
Characters as above. 
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1. R. Luteola, L. (Fig. 7, pl. 58.) Dyrr’s Rocker, Yrertow WEEp. 
Calyx and corolla each of 4 divisions, unequal. Plant 1 to 24 ft. high. 
Leaves long, lance-shaped, often with shallow or even rather deep lobes, 
especially of lower leaves, upper leaves generally with entire edges. Seed 
capsule rounded. Introduced. In waste places on Long Island and 
elsewhere. 
2. R. lutea, L. Yertow Cur-reavep Mianonetrr. Plant erect or de- 
cumbent. Leaves feather-formed, the divisions sometimes rather irregular, . 
