ORDER 14. VIOLACE^E. 45 



sile, 3-lobed, 1-celled, many-seeded. Fruit a capsule, 1-celled, opening 

 between the stigmas before maturity. Illust 40, 165. 



RESEDA, L. (Lat. resedo, to calm : the plants are said to relieve pain.) 

 Sep. 4 7. Pet. of an equal number, often cleft. Torus large, fleshy, one- 

 sided, bearing the 8 QO stamens. 



1 R. luteola L. Dyer's Weed. Lvs. lanceolate, with a tooth on each side at base ; 



sepals 4, united below ; petals (greenish-yellow) 3-5-cleft. (T) Roadsides, N. Y. 2f. 

 Flowers numerous, in a tall raceme. Eur. 



2 It. OUORA.TA L. Mignonette. Lvs. cuneiform, entire or 3-lobed; sepals shorter 'iian 



the 7-13-cleft petals. Egypt. If. Fragrant. 



ORDER XIV. VIOLACE^. VIOLETS. 



Herbs with simple (often cleft) alternate leaves with stipules. Flowers 

 irregular, spurred, with the sepals, petals, and stamens in 5's. Sepals per- 

 sistent, slightly united, elongated at base, the 2 lateral interior. Petah 

 commonly unequal, the inferior usually spurred at base. Stamens 5, 

 usually inserted on the hypogynous disk. Filaments dilated, prolonged 

 beyond the anthers. Ovary of 3 united carpels, with 3 parietal placentaB. 

 Style 1, declinate. Stigma cucullate. Fruit a 3-valved capsule. Seed* 

 many, with a crustaceous testa and distinct chalaza. Illust. 50, 93, 137, 

 302, 515, 522. 



Sepals not auricled at base. Filaments united into a tube SOLEA. 1 



Sepals more or less auriculate at base. Filaments scarcely cohering VIOLA. 1 



1. SOLE A, Gmgins. GREEN VIOLET. (Dedicated to W. Sole, an 

 English writer on plants.) Sep. nearly equal, not auriculate. Pet. unequal, 

 the lowest 2-lobed and gibbous at base, the rest emarginate. Stam. united 

 into a tube, sheathing the ovary and bearing a gland above the middle. Sds. 

 C 8, very large. If An erect, leafy plant, with inconspicuous axillary fls. 

 S. concolor Gingins. Green Violet. Woods, W. N-Y. (Hankenson) to Car. and Mo 



1 2f. Lvs. large, lanceolate, acuminate. Fls. greenish. Pod 1'. May, June. 



2. VIOLA, L. VIOLET. PANSEY. (From the Latin.) Sep. 5, unequal, 

 auricular at base. Pet. 5, irregular, the broadest spurred at base, the 2 

 lateral equal, opposite. Stam. approximate, anthers connate, 2 of them 

 with appendages at the back. Caps. 1-celled, 3-valved, seeds attached to 

 the middle of the valves, if Low, herbaceous plants. Ped. angular, 

 s-tlitary, 1-flowered, recurved at the summit so as to bear the flowers in 

 ivsupinate position. Joints of the rhizome often bearing apetalous 

 L. vvers. Figs. 50, 137, &c. 



A'.'aulescent. a Petals yellow No. 1 



a Petals white Nos. 2, 3,4 



a Petals blue, b beardless Nos. 5, (>, 1 



b bearded. c Lvs. divided Nos. 8, 9/3, 9-y 



c Lvs. undivided . . . .{), 10, 11, and theExot. 19 



