_ root, and are of a faint green. 
Th BRITISH HERBAL, 
Came. 
Np | AS 
IV: a 
BASE ROCKET: 
RES ED 4, 
: MpHE flower is compofed of five irregular petals, unequal in fize, and unevenly difpofed ; but 
they do not differ in bignefs fo mich as thofe of /uteola; and they are all divided into three 
parts at the edge: the feed-veffel is {hort and angulated, and is open at the end: the cup is {mall 
divided into five parts, with an appendage to one of them: fo that there appear to be fix; and ic 
remains when the flower is fallen. _ 
Linneus, as already obferved, places this among the polyandria trig ynia ; joining it wich /uteola 
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from which it differs in the ftruéture of the flower, 
ep Ve Le O Ne Re ae R 
Common Bafe Rocket. 
Refeda vulgaris. 
The root is long; flender, white, and furnifhed © 
with many fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a*clufter ; and they are 
very beautiful in themfelves, and difpofed with 
great regularity : they are divided in the pinnated 
manner, and each is formed of three pinne, 
or deep fegments, with an odd one at the end : 
thefe are of a pale green, long, and narrow. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, firm, up- 
tight, and two fect high. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
root, but are narrower and fmaller. 
The flowers ftand in long fpikes at the tops 
of the {talks ; and they are fmall and whitith. 
The feed-veffel is large, angulated, and open 3 
and the feeds are very numerous, and minute. 
\ Delev-1-S.1 O:N« iI: FO 
1. Great Bafe Rocket. 
Refeda major. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The leaves that rife firft are very large, of a 
deep green, and beautifully pinnated : each con- 
fifts of about five pairs of pin, and an odd 
one at the end; and thefe are all long, narrow, 
and fharp-pointed. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft, and is round, 
firm, upright, anda yard high: it is thick 
fet with leaves, and fends out a number of long 
branches. 
The leaves on thefe refemble thofe from the 
The flowers ftand in long, thick fpikes at the 
tops of the branches 5 and they are large and 
yellow. 
The feed-veffel is thick, crooked, and hangs 
downward. 
The feeds are fmall, very numerous, and 
brown. 
It is frequent in the fouth of France, and 
flowers in Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls ‘it Refede maxima. Others, 
Refeda major. 
N@ ar 
and other effential and obvious Character: 
ie elesebe SPP ECB sy 
_It is found in many parts of this kingdom on 
chalky arfd other barren foils. It fowersin July. 
C, Bauhine calls it Refeda vulgaris, Others, 
Refeda minor. 
. The leaves fometimes are curled, and crifp at 
the edges: this happens generally from want of 
nourifhment. 
Boccone has diftinguifhed the re/eda in this ftate 
as a feparate fpecies, under the name of refeda 
crifpa Gallica, and the editcr of the laft edition 
of the Synopfis has given it a place as if di- 
ftinét; but it is only a variety. 
Let the reader, in juftice to the memory of 
that great man, Mr. Ray, obferve whether the 
feveral errors of this kind, which occur in the 
laft edition of the Synopfis, were his or thofe 
of this editor, Dillenius. Such as are marked 
with an afterifm are Dillenius’s, and this is one 
of them. They are meant as improvements. 
RE IWGuNvagSePebsG.L E2S, 
2. Bafe Rocket, called Phyteuma. 
Refeda calycibus maximis, 
The root is Jong, thick, white, and furnifhed 
with many fibres. 
The firft leaves are long and narrow: they lie 
fpread upon the ground, in the manner of thofe 
of the common diers-weed; and the plant in 
this {tate has vaftly its appearance. 
The ftalks rife in the centre. of this tuft, and» 
are round, flender, and rarely at all branched, 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and are 
very oddly varied in figure: fome of them. per- 
fectly refemble thofe from the root; but others 
are divided at their ends into three or five parts, 
in the manner of fingers. 
The flowers are fmall, but they ftand in very 
large cups. : 
They are difpofed in a loofe fpike at the tops 
of the ftalks, aad in the bofoms of the upper 
leaves. Bes 
The feed-veffel is large, and ftands furrounded 
by this great cup: the feeds are very minute. 
It is common in the fouth of France, and 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Refede affinis phyteuma, 
Columna, Lrucage apula trifida et quinguefolia, 
Hhh Fa ege Bale 
