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the 3-40 stamens. Capsule i -celled, with parietal placenta, 3-6-lobed 

 and horned, opening apically before the reniform seeds are ripe. 

 Species 70, chiefly in the Mediterranean region. 



RESEDA Linn. 







Small spikes or contracted racemes. Petals 4-y-cleft, unequal. Stamens 

 1 2-40, on one side of the flower. 

 Species 55. 



R. ODORATA Linn. Mignonette. 



Leaves cuneate, 3-lobed with obtuse lobes, or entire. Petals deeply 

 partite, longer than the sepals. Capsule slightly contracted at the mouth, 

 Seeds large. Flowers fragrant. 



(North Afr. & cult.) 



R. ODORATA PILOSA O. KtZC. 



Stems subpilose. 



Patagonia (M. & T.; only cult, or escaped). 



Family 47. DROSERACE^:. Sundew Family. 



Glandular pubescent herbs mostly with rosulate leaves, their glandiilar 

 hairs sensitive ; and perfect flowers, usually in racemes. Caylx 4-8- 

 merous ; petals 5, hypogynous, convolute, distinct, or nearly so. Stamens 

 4-20. Ovary i-3-celled; styles 1-5. Seeds numerous; endosperm fleshy. 



Species 125, widely distributed. 



DROSERA Linn. 



Bog-herbs, with 4-8 stamens, i -celled ovary, and glandular-pilose leaves. 

 Styles usually 3. 



Species no, nearly cosmopolitan; most in Australia, but none in the 

 Pacific Is. 



D. UNIFLORA Willd. 



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Minute, stemless. Leaves rosulate, spatulate, with rounded lamina. 

 Scape short, strong, i -more-flowered. Flowers showy. E. and W. 

 Magellan. Falklands. Staaten I., S. Fuegia. (Bolivia.) 



D. uniftora W., D. arcturi Hook., and D. stenopetala Hook., appear to 

 J. D. Hooker to be three single-flowered species, representing each other 

 in extreme southern regions, being found in Patagonia, Auckland Island, 

 and Tasmania. 



