RESEDACE^. 



6. VIOLACE^. 



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Cultivated land near Adelaide. 

 Oct. -Dec. — Almost all temperate 

 countries. 



2. R. sativus, L. Badish. 

 Root annual or biennial, swollen 

 and fleshy ; leaves like those of 

 the preceding ; flowers white or 

 pink; pods thick and swollen, 

 smooth or faintly grooved when 

 ripe, somewhat beaded and 

 tapering into a long thick 

 beak. 



Subspontaneous near market 

 gardens. — Oct. -Dec. — Not found 

 anywhere in an aboriginally wild 

 state, and perhaps a form of the 

 preceding species, modified by 

 long cultivation. 



Family 5.— RESEDACE>C. 



1. Resed.\, L. 

 1. Reseda alba, L. WhUe Raphanus Raphanistrum. 



Mifjhunettc. Erect, glabrous, 



robust annual or biennial; leaves pinnatisect, with unequal, 

 linear, wavy segments; flowers white, in long dense 

 racemes ; sepals 5, rarely 6 ; petals as many, 3-cleft ; stamens 

 10-20, inserted on a fleshy disk ; cap.sule erect, oblong, with 

 4, or sometimes 3, small teeth. 



A roadside weed near Kingscote, Kangaroo Island (J. 

 H. ^laiden). — Oct. -Jan. — Mediterranean region. 



Jan. — Mediterranean 



Family 6.— VIOLACE>E 



Violet). 



a well-known garden 

 m Long Gullv, National 



]'iola odd rat a (Sweet 

 plant, is spreading spontaneously 

 Park, Belair. 



Family 7. CARYOPHYLLACE/E. 



Sepals persistant, usually 5, free or united in a tubu- 

 lar calyx ; petals usually 5, alternate with the .sepals, and 

 often with 2 scales at the base of the lamina, forming a 

 sort of crown; stamens usually 10, sometimes o; styles 2-5, 

 .stigmatic all the way ; fruit a 1-celled capsule, opening by 

 3-l(J teeth or valves; seeds small, numeroits, attached to 

 a free central column (placenta). Herbs, with opposite, 

 entire leaves springing from the swollen nodes. 



Sepals united in a toothed calyx. 

 Styles 3-5. 



Styles 3; capsule 6-toothed Silene 1 



Styles 5; capsule 5-toothed Lychnis 



Styles 2; capsule 4-toothed Saponakia 2 



Sepals free. 



Leaves stipulate. 

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