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the claw enlarged so as to form a projecting lobe on each side of 

 the lamina, which is divided into three portions : the central one 

 linear, not above half the length of the lateral divisions, which are 

 somewhat half-mooushaped, with the convex margin outwards ; 

 lateral pair of petals resembling the upper pair, but with the lower 

 half-moon of the lamina often suppressed; lower pair of petals 

 with the claw shorter than the others, and the lamina resembling 

 the small central portion of that of the upper pair. Disk urceolate, 

 produced into a ring-like plate at the top, which is much more 

 developed on the side next the axis, where it forms a scale clothed 

 with long slender white papillae. Stamens 12 to 20, more or less 

 bent down, longer than the petals. Stigmas 3 (rarely 4), sessile. 

 Capsule shortly stipitate, i to f inch long, leathery, with the surface 

 bossulated, opening at the apex long before the seeds are ripe, and 

 having 3 projecting teeth round the margin of the opening. Seeds 

 obovate, or rather ear - shaped, slightly compressed, black and 

 shining. Whole plant lively green, glabrous (with the exception of 

 small papillse on the stem). 



Wild Mignonnette, Yellow Mignonnette, Base Rocket. 



French, Resida Jaune, Reseda Sauvage. German, Gelher Wau. 



Ray and Haller remark that tbis plant Las an oleraceous taste resembling that of 

 a cabbage. 



SPECIES II.— RESEDA SUPPRUTICULOSA. Lhm. _ 



Plate CLXIII. ,£,^l,j:.^ /i,C,.' 



R. undata, "Linn.;" R. alba, "Linn.;" and R. sufFriiticulosa, ^' Linn." Reich. Ic. Fl. 



Germ, et Helv. Vol. II. Telr. Tab. CI. Figs. 4447, 4448, 4449. 

 R. suffruticulosa et alba, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 64.5. 



Stems often several from the same rootstock, sub-simple or 

 with erect branches. Leaves pinnatipartite, with numerous narrow 

 entire lobes. Flowers in rather elongate and dense cylindrical- 

 conical racemes. Pedicels ascending, about equal to the segments 

 of the calyx which are 5 (rarely 6) in number, and scarcely enlarge 

 after flowering. Petals generally 5, with short roundish claws, all 

 wedge-shaped, 3-cleft, and nearly alike. Stigmas 4, rarely 3. 

 Capsule oblong-urceolate, narrowed below, 4-sided with acute 

 angles, and with 4 teeth at the summit. 



Waste sandy places and rubbish heaps. Pare. It cannot be 

 considered indigenous, but appears to be naturalized in a few 

 places : as near Weston-super-Mare, in Somersetshire ; Bootle, near 

 .Liverpool ; and between Marazion and Penzance, Cornwall. 



[England, Scotland, Ireland]. Biennial or Perennial. Summer. 



