100 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 



n. CLEOME, L. 



Mostly annual herbs ; stems branched. Leaves petioled, 

 simple, or with 3-7 entire or serrate leaflets. Flowers in 

 bracted racemes. Sepals 4, often persistent. Petals 4, often 

 long-clawed, nearly equal, entire. Stamens 6, filaments 

 thread-like, usually projecting much, but sometimes 1-3 much 

 shorter than the others, inserted on the short receptacle. 

 Ovary on a short stalk with a small gland at its base. Fruit 

 a slender capsule on an elongated stalk."* 



1. C. integrifolia, Torr. and Gr. Rocky Mountain Bee Plant. 

 A smooth plant 2 ft. or more high. Leaves with 3 leaflets. Flowers 

 pink, showy, in leafy-bracted racemes. Pod oblong to linear, 1-2 in. 

 long. Cultivated as an ornamental plant and also for bees. Common 

 in a wild condition W. 



41. RESEDACE^. Mignonette Family. 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, simple or pinnately cut. Flowers racemed or spiked, 

 bracted. Calyx 4-7, parted, often irregular. Petals 4-7, 

 hypogynous, often unequal and cleft or notched. Stamens 

 usually many, borne on a large one-sided hypogynous disk. 

 Ovary of 2-6 carpels, which are more or less united into a 

 single 1-celled, many-seeded, several-lobed, or horned pistil, 

 which opens at the top before the seeds ripen. 



RESEDA, Toum. 



Annual ; stems diffuse, widely branched. Leaves sessile, 

 entire or lobed, smooth. Flowers in close racemes or spikes. 

 Petals 4-7, toothed or cleft. Stamens 8-30, inserted at one 

 side of the flower. Capsule 3-6-lobed.* 



1. R. odorata, L. Mignonette. Stem widely diifuse, 6-12 in. 

 high, smooth. Leaves wedge-shaped, entire or 3-lobed. Flowers 

 small, greenish-yellow, very fragrant. Petals deeply 7-13-cleft. 

 Often cultivated. From Egypt.* 



