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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Resedaceae continued. 



appendix at the base, free or rarely Bub-coherent, open 

 in aestivation ; disk hypogynous, sessile or stipitate, often 

 dilated behind; stamens three to forty, perigynous or 

 inserted within the disk, not covered by the petals in 

 aestivation ; filaments free or monadelphons at base ; 

 anthers two-celled, introrse. Fruit a capsule, closed or 

 gaping at the apex, rarely a berry, sometimes follicular; 

 seeds many, rarely few. Leaves scattered or fascicled, 

 simple, trifid, or pinnatiparfced ; stipules small, gland- 

 like. Mignonette (Reseda odorata), one of the members 

 of this order, requires no eulogy here. The Dyers' Weed 

 (R. Luteola) yields a yellow dye, which is largely used ; 

 its leaves are very bitter. The order comprises half-a- 

 dozen genera, and, according to the authors of the 

 " Genera Plantarnm," not more than thirty distinct species. 

 Reseda is the principal genus. 



RESIN, ANIME. See Hymennsa Courbaril. 



RESIN PLANT. A common name for Bursera 

 acuminata and B. gummifera, Dammara australis, Guaia- 

 cum officinale, Pistacia Lentiscus, &c. 



REST-HARROW. See Ononis. 



RESTIACEJE. A natural order of nsually peren- 

 nial herbs, tufted or with horizontal or creeping rhizomes ; 

 they are mostly natives of South-west Africa or Australia, 

 a few are found in New Zealand, one in Chili, and one 

 in Cochin China. Flowers dioecious, rarely monoecious, 

 very rarely hermaphrodite, in spikelets ; perianth regular ; 

 segments six, rarely reduced to five, four, or three, glu- 

 maceous, rigid, scarious, or hyaline, more or less distinctly 

 biseriate ; stamens in male flowers three, filaments fili- 

 form; ovary of females one to three-celled; inflorescence 

 variable. Fruit dry, often small, nut-like or capsular, 

 terete, compressed, or triquetrous. Leaves sometimes few, 

 radical, long, cyperoid, frequently nearly all reduced to 

 sheaths. Stems rigid, simple or branched, erect, flexuous, 

 or variously twisted. The order comprises twenty genera, 

 and about 230 species, few of which are of any horticul- 

 tural value. Examples: Restio, Willdenowia. 



BESTING-. Plants are said to be Besting during 

 any period when growth in them is inactive. The term 

 is only applicable to such as live over one year: nearly 

 all of these require a Eesting season after completing 

 their annual .growth. 



RESTIO (from restis, cord ; alluding to the use of 

 the plants in South Africa). Rope Grass. SYNS. Craspedo- 

 lepis, Ischyrolepis, Megalotheca, Rhodocoma. The prin- 

 cipal genus of OED. Restiacece. It consists of about 100 

 species, none of which are of any special interest; 

 several have been introduced to this country. 



RESTREFIA (named in honour of Joseph E. Eestrep 

 a naturalist who travelled in South America). ORD 

 Orchidea). A genus of stove Orchids, with tufted stems, 

 or having simple, creeping branches. About a score 

 species have been described, natives of tropical America, 

 from Brazil as far as Mexico. The genus is very closely 

 related to Pleurothallis, but is distinguished by having 

 four pollen masses; the habit is very similar, but the 

 peduncles appear to be constantly one-flowered, and the 

 flowers are often, but not always, larger. The under- 

 mentioned species are those best known to gardeners 

 For culture, see Pleurothallis. 



R. antennifera (antennae-bearing). /. yellow, dotted with red 

 or purple ; lip linear, retuse, scabrous, trinerved, bearing tendrils 

 close to the base. I. ovate, acute, shorter than the stems, occa- 

 sionally nch purple on the under side ; sheaths falcate some- 

 ^P^le;;ith purple. Venezuela,' &c., 1869 (B.M. 6288 ) 



B ,? ayana ^y""* ft- u PP, er se P als and petals violet-brown, 

 nliforui, clavate ; lower sepals connate into a broad, bifid piece, 

 which is yellowish and brown ; lip yellow, mottled with purple 

 ligulate. I. stout, roundish-acute, nearly heart-shaned at the 

 base.^ Costa Rica, 1875. "A lovely fltUe gent P of tufted 



Restrepia continued. 



R. elegans (elegant), fl. chiefly yellow, spotted with purple, 

 much smaller than those of R. antennifera ; lip linear, retuse, 

 hollowed out and dilated at base, with a tooth on each side. 

 1. oval, twice the length of the stems ; sheaths straight. Caraccas, 

 1872. (B. M. 5966 ; F. d. S. 743.) 



R. Falkenbergii (Falkenberg's). fl. yellow, with some white 

 and purple marks. 1. large, bluish-purple beneath ; sheaths one- 

 coloured, without blotches. New Grenada, 1880. 



R. Lansbergii (Lansberg's). fl., upper sepals and petals crim- 

 son ; front sepals white, with crimson dots ; lip yellow, with 

 purple blotches, unctuous, linear, truncate, scabrous, excavated 

 and broader at the base. I. oval, equalling the stems ; sheaths 

 straight, closely imbricated. Venezuela, Guatemala, &c., 1861. 

 This resembles small specimens of R. antennifera. (R. X. O. i., 

 p. 170, t. 60.) 



R. maculata (spotted). A synonym of R. antennifera. 



R. prorepens (forward-creeping). /. yellow, solitary, on a long, 

 capillary peduncle, and nodding, bending the two straight, linear 

 sepals forward, and having boch widely clasping, the inferior 

 connate, boat-shaped, much narrower towards the top ; lip very 

 small, scarcely equalling the column, pandurate, sub-acute, with 

 a small angle before each base, and a lamella in each middle side. 

 I. very small, narrow, fleshy, emarginate at apex, with a small 

 apiculus between. Rhizomes creeping, in large masses. Costa 

 Rica, 1877. (R. X. O. iv. 11-17.) 



R. Reichenbachiana (Reichenbach's). /. canary-yellow, on 

 filiform peduncles, nearly 4in. long and cruciform, the tips of the 

 inferior, connate sepals dark purple ; these and the petals having 

 also a dark purple line at the base, and the upper sepal two such 

 lines. I. spathulate-oblong, obovate, minutely tridentate at the 

 apex, about 2in. high. Costa Rica, 1875. Habit densely tufted. 

 (R. X. O. ii. 5-10.) 



R. xanthophthalma (yellowed-eyed). " A pretty species, with 

 yellow-purple-blotched flowers'." Guatemala and Venezuela. 

 (B. M. 5257, under name of R. Lansbergii.) 



RESTJPIN ATE. Inverted in position ; appearing as 

 if upside down. 



RESURRECTION PLANT. A common name for 

 Anastatica Hierochuntina, Mesembryanthemum Tripolium, 

 and Selaginella lepidophylla. 



RETAMILIA. A synonym of Retanilla (which 

 see). 



RETANILLA (the Peruvian name of the genus). 

 STN. Retamilia. ORD. Rhamnece. A small genus (two 

 or three species) of almost leafless, unarmed, branched 

 shrubs and sub-shrubs, natives of Chili and Peru. Flowers 

 on short, sub-racemose or fasciculate branches, opposite, 

 shortly pedicellate ; calyx urceolate or campanulate ; 

 petals and stamens four or five. Drupes rather large, 

 globose. Leaves very caducous, opposite, entire. The 

 species are probably lost to cultivation in this country. 



RETICULATED. Netted; in the form of net- 

 work. 



RETINARIA. A synonym of Oouania (which 

 see). 



RETINIA. A genus of small moths, belonging to 

 the group of Tortricidae, of some importance because of 

 the damage inflicted by them on Scotch Firs and other 

 Coniferce. Several species occur in Great Britain, and 

 the larvae of all, so far as known, feed in the buds or 

 young shoots of the Coniferae. The moths vary from 

 iin. to nearly lin. in spread of wing ; the front wings 

 are nearly three times as long as broad, with the tip 

 rather rounded, and the front and hind borders slightly 

 rounded ; the hind wings are rather broad and pointed. 

 The species of chief importance practically are the fol- 

 lowirig, which may be distinguished in the adult state 

 by the characters mentioned below : 

 1. Fore wings grey, with rusty-yellow tip of wing and head. 



(a) Thorax dark brown ; fore wings grey- ) 



brown, with paler cross-lines, and f j,. n j nna 

 decidedly rusty-yellow tip ; spread f du P lana - 

 of wings, six and a half to seven lines ) 



(6) Thorax rusty-yellow in front ; fore\ 

 wings witler behind, spreading nine / 

 to te;i lines, pale grey patch at tip, > turionana. 

 duller ochreous than in R. duplana ; 

 hind wings pale at base / 



