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RESEDACE*? 



inhabit Europe and the adjaceiat parts of Asia and Africa. lieseda 

 odordta (Mignonette), a native of Egypt, is a favourite garden 

 plant on account of the delicious perfume of its flowers. 



I. REsiJDA (Mignonette). — Flowers monosymmetric ; petals 

 unequal, with a broad claw and ligule, the posterior ones with a 

 niultifid limb. (Name from the Latin resedo, I calm, from 

 supposed sedative properties.) 



1. Ji. h'lfea (\V\\6. IMignonette). — .-V bushy plant, i — 2 feet high ; 

 kavfs 3-cleft, lower ones pinnatifid;//c'r£'V;'.f in short, broad, conical 

 racemes, yellowish ; sepals 6, linear ; petals 6, very unequal. — On 

 chalky soil. — Fl. June — August. Biemiial. 



2. Ji. Liiteola (Weld, Dyer's Rocket, Vellow-weed). — A taller 

 plant than the last, 2 — 3 feet high, with long, linear, blunt, 

 undivided, shining leaves : long terminal racemes of yellowish 

 flmuers : sepals 4. — Waste places, especiall)" on a chalk or lime- 

 stone soil. It was formerly used to dye wool yellow, or, with 

 indigo, green. — Fl. June — August. Apnual or biennial. 



