ENGLISH BOTANY. 



ORDER VI.— RESEDACEiS. 



Annual or perennial herbs, or nnderslirubs. Leaves alternate, 

 undivided, tripartite or pinnatifid, -with a small tooth, probably a 

 stipule, at the base. Plowers irregular, bracteate, Avliite or yellowish, 

 in terminal racemes or spikes. Calyx usually persistent, generally 

 6-partite, but varying from 4- to 8-partite ; segments more or less 

 unequally imbricated. Corolla with the petals generally equal in 

 number to the segments of the calyx, the upper ones usually the 

 largest, palmatipartite, the lower ones often simple ; claw, espe- 

 cially in the upper petals, generally dilated, and having an infiexed 

 scale-like appendage in front of the limlx Disk glandular, hypo- 

 gynous, peltate or urceolate, generally most developed on the side 

 next the axis of the inflorescence. Stamens 7 to 40, with the 

 filaments united together at the base or free, often decliuate. 

 Anthers 2-celled, introrse, protruding in the bud. Ovary sessile or 

 stipitate, of 2 to 6 carpels free or united together, in the latter case 

 forming a syncarpous ovary with parietal placenta3. Ovules gene- 

 rally numerous, amphitropous or campylotropous. Pruit generally 

 a dry leathery capsule, frequently open at the top, or consisting 

 of several dehiscent follicles. Seeds generally numerous, kidney- 

 shaped, exalbuminous. Embryo cylindrical, curved, with incum- 

 bent cotyledons. 



GENUS I.—R E S E D A. Lbm. 



Calyx persistent or deciduous, usually 6-partite, but varying 

 from 4- to 8-partite. Petals unequal, divided into from 3 to many 

 segments, the lower ones frequently simple and linear or rudi- 

 mentary. Disk shortly urceolate, with the margin turned over at 



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