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VII. RESEDACE^. 



[lieseda. 



Okd. VIL KESEDACE^ Be Cand. 



^ ^ Calyx of several narrow sepals. Petals unequal, mostly lad, 

 niated. Stamens 10 — 24, inserted upon a glandular irreo-ular 

 disk. Ovary sessile, 3 — 4-lobed, 1 -celled, with 3 — 4 parietal 

 placentas bearing many seeds (or of 4 — 6 verticillate 1 -celled 

 carpels). Stigmas sessile, one to each placenta and alternate 

 with it. Fruit opening in an early stage at the extremity aW 

 the line of the placentas. — Reseda odorata is the sweet Mio-non- 

 nette of our gardens. 



1. Reseda Linn,- Dyer's Rocket. Mignonnette. 

 Cal of 1 piece, many-parted. Pet. more or less divided and 



unequal. Caps, of 1 cell, opening at the top. 

 Name from reseda, to calm, from 



qualities. 



Stigmas 3 — 4. 



Its supposed sedative 



1. R. Luteola L. (com^non J)., Yellow-weed or Weld) 



long lanceolate undivided, calyx 4-partite, stigmas 3. 

 t. 320. 



E.B. 



Waste places ; frequent on a chalky soil. 0. 6 — 8. — 5'^em 2— 3 feet 

 high, branched. Racemes \ong, of numerous yellowish ^oi^jers, with 

 prominent stamens. Nectary large, green, crenate, on the upper side 

 of the/oM;er; 3 of the -petals 3-cleft, segments linear; two lower 

 petals entire; capsules broad, depressed. — Used in dyeing woollen 

 stuffs yellow. 



2. R, luiea L. {base D., wild M.) ; leaves 3-cleft or pinnatifid, 

 calyx 6-partite, petals 6 very unequal, stigmas 3. E. B. t 



Waste places and chalky hills. © or i;. 6 — 8. 

 variable, some bipinnatifid, lower ones often pinnate, 

 yellow than in the last. 



Leaves very 

 Flowers deeper 

 Two upper petals with 2 wing-like lobes, 

 lateral ones unequally bifid, lower ones entire. 

 %vrinkled. 



Capsule oblong, 



3. R. ^fruticulosa L. {shruhhy base Z).); leaves all pinnate 



5 -partite, petals 5 nearly equal trifid, 



2628. 



Unenclosed sand- 



waved glaucous, calyx 

 stigmas 4, E. B. S. t. 



^ Cornwall. Weston-super-mare, Somersetshire, 

 hills, Bootle, 4 — 5 miles from Liverpool. Coventry, Warwickshire. 

 The following stations, either for this or R.alba, have also been com- 

 municated:- — about Dublin; between Cork and Glanmire; and 

 near Gosport. (J or 1^. 6. — Ii. alba of Continental writers chiefly 

 differs from this by having the cali/x 6-partite, and 6 petals : Mr. Borrer, 

 however, can only distinguish the R. alba of the Linnean Herbarium 

 by its shorter flower-stalks, more cylindrical racemes, and the ter- 

 minal lobe of its leaves more similar to the rest (less dilated than 

 that of R frutictilosa) : — a specimen from Mr. Borrer has the calf 

 5-partite. 



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