680 RESEDA. [CLASS XI. ORDER 111. 



The union, the partition where, that makes 



Kind and degree, among all visible beings ; 



The constitutions, powers, and faculties, 



Which they inherit — cannot step beyond,— 



And cannot fall beneath; that do assign 



To every class its station and its office 



Through all the mighty commonwealth of things— 



Up from the creeping plant to soaring man. 



Such converse if directed by a meek, 



Sincere and humble Spirit, teaches love ; 



For knowledge is delight ; and such delight 



Breeds love : yet suited as it rather is 



To thought and to the climbing iniellect, 



It teaches less to love than to adore, 



If that be not indeed the highest love !" 



3. R, fruticulo' sa, Linn. (Fig. 777.) Shrubby Base Rocket. Leaves 

 all pinnated, glaucous, waved ; calyx with five segments ; petals five, 

 three cleft, nearly regular. 



Hooker in English Botany, Supp. t. 2628. — Hooker, British Flora, 

 vol. i. p. p. 220. — Lindley, Synopsis, Supp. p. 329. 



Root woody, tapering. Stems several from the same root, erect, 

 more or less branched, striated, smooth, leafy, from two to three feet 

 high. Leaves all pinnated, with narrow waved glaucous smooth 

 pinnules, paler beneath. Inflorescence a terminal, crowded, at length 

 elongated spike of numerous ^oiwrs, of a pale yellowish colour, each 

 elevated on a short pedicle, as long as the awl-shaped bractea. from 

 which it arises. Calyx cut into five narrow linear segments. Corolla 

 of five nearly regular longish three cleft petals. Stamens on short 

 filaments, with large yellow two celled anthers. Styles short, with 

 obtuse stigmas, at first erect, becoming spreading. Capsule four 

 angled, four celled. 



Habitat. — " On an old hedge between Marazion and Penzance, 

 certainly wild. — Hev. J. S. Tozer, 1839. Unenclosed sand hills, 

 Bootle, 4 — 5 miles from Liverpool. — H. C. Watson, Esq. Ihe fol- 

 lowing stations, either for this or R alba, have also been communicated 

 to me : — About Dublin. — Mr. Drummond. Between Cork and 

 Glenmire.— Z>r. Stokes, Mr. J. T. Mackay. Weslon-Super-Mare, 

 Somersetshire. — Mr. J. Woods. Near Gosport. — Rev. W. S. Bayton." 

 — Hooker. 



Biennial or Perennial ; flowering in June. 



It is doubtful if this species ought to be admitted into the list of our 

 native plants. It is nearly allied to R. alba, and Hooker, in his 

 British Flora, says that " Mr. Borrer informs me that there are speci- 

 mens of this and its near ally R. alba in the Linnaean Herbarium, and 

 the diff"erence between them appears very slight. R. alba has shorter 

 flower stalks, and thence more cylindrical racemes, and the terminal 

 lobe of its leaves is more similar to the others, (less dilated than that of 



