PoLYGAaLa. XVI. POLYGALACEA. 173 
P. GRAVEOLENS. Raf. (Cleome dodecandria. Michz.) 
Viscid-pubescent; lvs. ternate ; Jfts. elliptic-oblong ; fils. axillary, solitary ; 
sta. 8—1i2; capsule oblong; lanceolate, attenuate at base.—A strong-scented plant 
found on gravely shores! Vt. to Ark. Stem if high, branching, striate. Leaf- 
lets 1—13’ long, } as wide, nearly entire and sessile; common petiole 1’ long. 
Flowers in terminal racemes. Petals yellowish-white, narrowed below into 
long claws. Filaments slender, exserted. Pods 2’ long, glandular-pubescent, 
siliquose, viscid like every other part of the plant. Jl. 
+OrvpER XV. RESEDACE#.—Mientonertes. 
Herbs with alternate, entire or pinnate leaves. Sztp. minute, gland-like. 
Fis. in racemes or spikes, small and often fragrant. 
Cal.—Sepals somewhat united at base, unequal, green. 
Cor.—Petals lacerated, unequal. : 
Sta. 8—20. inserted on the disk. Torus hypogynous, one-sided, glandular. 
Ova. sessile, 3-lobed, 1-celled, many-seeded. P/acent@ 3, parietal. 
Fr. a capsule, 1-celled, opening between the stigmas before maturity. 
Genera 6, species 41, inhabiting the countries around the Mediterranean Sea, having no very remarkable 
properties. Reseda Luteola contains a yellow coloring matter, and other species are very fragrant. 
RESEDA. 
Lat. resedo, to calm; the plants are said to relieve pain. 
Sepals many, petals of an equal number, each bearing one or more 
stamens ; torus large, fleshy, bearing the ovary, with several stamens 
and styles. 
1. R. Lure6ia. Dyer’s Weed. 
Ivs. lanceolate, entire, with a tooth on each side at base; cal. 4-cleft—@ 
Nearly naturalized in Western N. Y. Stem about 2f high. The flowers are 
without petals, arranged in a long spike, which, as Linnzus observes, follows 
the course of the sun, inclining east, south and west by day, and north by 
night.—It affords a useful yellow dye, also the paint called Dutch-pink. § 
. R. oporAta. Mignionette—Lwvs. entire, 3-lobed; sep. shorter than the pe- 
tals—A well known and universal favorite of the garden, native of Egypt. 
The flowers are highly fragrant and no boquet should be considered complete 
without them. The variety frutescens is by a peculiar training raised to the 
height of 2 feet with the form of a tree. The species phytewma, native of Pales- 
tine, has a calyx longer than the petals. 
Orver XVI. POLYGALACEA.—Mirxworts. 
Plants herbaceous or shrubby, sometimes twining. 
Lvs. alternate, or rarely opposite, mostly simple, always without stipules. 
Fis. perfect, unsymmetrical. Pedicels with 3 bracts. _ 
Cal.—Sepals 5, very irregular, 3 exterior, 2 interior (wings) larger and petaloid. 
Cor.—Petals 3, hypogynous, the anterior (keel) larger than the others. [the claws of the petais. 
Sta.—6—8. Fil. combined in a tube which is split on the upper side, and coherent to some extent with 
Ova. superior, compressed, 2-celled, one cell often abortive. Sty. curved and often cucullate. . 
Fr. loculicidal or indehiscent. Sds. pendulous. 
Genera 19, species 495, very equally distributed, each division of the globe having two or three genera 
peculiar to it. The properties of the Polygalacee have not been well determined. Some of the genera 
possess a bitter matter and a milky juice which is emetic, expectorant and diuretic. Polygala is the only 
northem genus. 
POLYGALA. Tourn. 
Gr. ro\v, much, yaXa, milk, said to favor the lacteal secretions of animals. 
Sepals 5, persistent, 2 of them wing-shaped and petaloid; petals 
3, cohering by their claws to the filaments, lower one carinate; cap- 
sule obcordate, 2-celled, 2-valved, 2-seeded; seeds carunculate.— The 
NN. American species herbaceous. Lower petal (keel) mostly tipped with 
a crest. 
* Spikes ovate, globose or oblong, dense, obtuse. 
1, P. sancuinea. (P. purpurea. Nutt.) Caducous Polygala. 
St. branching at top; Jvs. linear, alternate; fls. beardless, in alternate, ob- 
