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short stalk with a small gland at its base. Fruit si slender 

 capsule on an elongated stalk.* 



1. C. sernilata Pursh. Rocky Mountain Bee Plant, Stinking 

 Clover. A smooth plant 2 ft. or more high. Leaves with 3 leaflets. 

 Flowers pink, showy, in leafy-bracted racemes. Pod oblong to linear, 

 1-2 in. long. Cultivated as an ornamental plant and also for bees. 

 Common in a wild condition W. 



42. RESEDACE.S;. Mignonette Family 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 simple or pinnately cut. Mowers racemed or spiked, bracted. 

 Calyx 4-7-parted, often not actinomorphic. Petals 4-7, 

 hypogynous, often unequal and cleft or notched. Stamens 

 usually many, borne on a large one-sided hypogynous disk. 

 Ovary of 2-6 carpels, which are more or less united into a 

 single 1-celled, many-seeded, several-lobed or -horned pistil, 

 which opens at the top before the seeds ripen. 



RESEDA L. 



Annual. Stems diffuse, widely branched. Leaves sessile, 

 entire or lobed, smooth. Elowers in close racemes or spikes. 

 Petals 4-7, toothed or cleft. Stamens 8-30, inserted at one 

 side of the flower. Capsule 3-6-lobed.* 



L R. odorataL. Mignonette. Stem widely diffuse, 6-12 in. high, 

 smooth. Leaves wedge-shaped, entire or 3-lobed. Flowers small, 

 greenish-yellow, very fragrant. Petals deeply 7-13-cleft. Often cul- 

 tivated. From Egypt.* 



43. SARRACENIACE.^;. Pitcher Plant Family 



Perennial, apparently stemless, marsh herbs. Leaves tubu- 

 lar or trumpet-shaped. Flowers single, nodding, on a naked 

 or bracted scape. Sepals 4-6, colored, persistent. Petals 6, 

 deciduous, or sometimes wanting. Stamens numerous. Pistil 

 compound, 6-celled, many-ovuled; style terminal, nearly as 

 broad as the flower, shield-shaped.* 



