RESEDACE^E 187 



Leaves as in E. alba, but stipules small, glanduliform, seated on 

 the petiole some distance above the base, and often at unequal 

 heights. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Spathulate, obtuse, tapering to the base, alternately 

 and ascendingly nerved. 



Nos. 3-6. Similar. 



Ultimate leaves linear, entire, obtuse, undulate at the margin, 

 alternately incurvinerved, deep green, glabrous, shining, with a pro- 

 minent midrib ; the radical narrowed to a short, flattened, more or 

 less winged petiole, the cauline sessile. 



Reseda odorata, L. 



Primary root long, wiry, tapering, with very few or no lateral 

 rootlets for some distance. 



Hypocotyl subterranean, stout, tapering downwards indistin- 

 guishably into the root. 



Cotyledons oblong ; lamina 9 mm. long, 5 mm. broad ; petiole 

 4'5 mm. long. 



Stem herbaceous, erect, or ultimately decumbent, glabrous, green, 

 slightly angled and furrowed, with lines of scattered, filiform, glan- 

 dular appendages running down from the base of the leaves ; 1st 

 internode 1 mm. long ; 2nd 2-25 mm. ; 3rd 7 mm. ; 4th 1 mm. ; 

 5th 13 mm. ; 6th 9 mm. ; 7th 5'5 mm. 



Leaves cauline, alternate (or first four opposite in two pairs), petio- 

 late, or the uppermost sessile or subsessile, flat or subrevolute at the 

 margin, alternately penninerved, glabrous, scabrous at the margin ; 

 petioles channelled above on either side of a prominent midrib, con- 

 vex beneath ; stipules consisting of filiform glandular processes ex- 

 tending from the base of the petiole for some distance down the stem. 



1st pair opposite, spathulate, entire. 



2nd pair opposite, oblong-spathulate, entire. 



Nos. 5-6. Nearly opposite (in specimen), linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 entire. 



Nos. 7-10. Oblong-spathulate, obtuse, entire. 



Upper cauline leaves oblong, obtuse, entire or trifid or tripartite ; 

 segments oblong, obtuse, entire ; lateral ones much broader on the 

 posterior side of the midrib and decurrent on the petiole. 



