100 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 
Il. 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 Beer 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. RESEDACEZ. 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, Tourn. 
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 diffuse, 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.* 
