74 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Orper XVU. RUTA’CEA. (Rus Famtiy.) 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, with simple or compound leaves, punctate with pellucid dots contain- 
raed a pungent, eoitl o oil (except in Ailanthus, a doubtful member of the Order ;) and per- 
us, hypo: % ar, 3=5-merous ‘Stamens twi 
ab te or com mbined into a compound ovary of 
thany cells, raised on a prolongation fleshy disk ; styles sometimes co- 
nhering when the ovaries are distinct. 
1. RU’TA, L. Roz. 
[Name of doubtful derivation.] 
ae 
BEES 
wo & 
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Flowers perfect. Sepals and peas f forely 9 —5). Stamens twice as 
many as ie the sepals, Lek a gh -=s> Stylel. Capsule ii 
lobed. Seeds albamino Herbs, so hee suffruticose, with alterna 
1. RB: crave’ouens, L. Leaves decompound ; panes otileng, She eens 
one obovate ; — entire or somewhat tot 
Heavy-sMeitine Rura. Rue. Ganientee, e. 
Pecmaied. Stem boshy 2-3 feet high, weeny at base, the branches smooth, yellowish 
green. dotted, glaucous or bluish gree Flowers in terminal corymbose panicles, 
pale greenish.yellow ; the first seo which unfolds has § sepals and a a 10 stamens, 
while ae) waccosdiieg ones — y 8 stam — _ 4 itr and petals. Pod roundish, 
warty, 4-5-lobed. The stame oft ch in ds the pistil, and after the an- 
thers have shed their pollen, pits 
*— of Southern Europe. Cult. June - Sept. 
Obs. The Garden-rue, as it is commonly called, probably to distinguish 
— 
: he Rue (Rata graveolens), a fowering branch. 52. A fruitod the-same/- rm e 
