Okdeb 16.— VIOLACB^. 241 



plant, with curious pwrpla flowers, common in gardong, escaped into fields, Ac 

 Soutli. May— Aug.f § "W. Ind. 



2 C. Bpeoiooissima Deppo. Pilous ; st. branching below , Ivs. 5 — 1-foliato, 

 on long petioles ; Ifls. lanceolate, acuminate, the upper Ivs. simple, bract-like, 

 ovate; petals as long as the pedicels ; fruit shorter than its stipe.— JjD Gardens. 

 Plant very showy, 3 — if high. Fls. rose-purple, clustered at the summit of the 

 rising raceme from Jn. to Sept. f Mexico. 



3. POLANISIA, Raf. (Gr. ttoAv, much, awao^-, unequal.) Sepals dis- 

 tinct, spreading ; petals 4, unequal ; stamens 8 — 32, filaments filiform 

 or dilated at the summit ; torus not developed, minute ; pods linear. — 

 (3) Strong-scented herbs, with glaudular, viscid hairs. 



P. gravdolens Raf Viscid-pubescent ; Ivs. ternato, Ifts. elliptic-oblong ; fla. 

 axillary, solitary; sta. 8 — 12; caps, oblong-liiiccolate, attenuate at ba.se.— Grav- 

 elly shores, -Vt. to Ark. St. If high, liranohing, striate. Lfts. 1 — 1^' long, i as 

 wide, nearly entire and sessile ; common petiole 1' long. Els. in terminal raoemes. 

 Petals yellowisli-white, narrowed below into long claws. Pil. slender, cxsertod. 

 Pods 2' long, glandular-pubescent, siliquose, viscid like every other part of the 

 plant. JL 



Order XV. RESEDACEiE. Mignonetts. 



Berbs, with alternate, entire, or pinnate leaves. Stipules minute, gland-like. Fls. 

 in racemes or spikes, small and often fragrai.t, 4 — l-merous. Sepals somewhat 

 united at base, unequal, green. Petals unequal, entire or cleft. Sta. 8 — 20, in- 

 serted on the disk. Torus hypogynous, one-sided, glandular. Ova. sessile, S-lobed, 

 1-celled, many-seeded. Placental 2, parietal. Fr. a capsule, 1-celled, opening be- 

 tween the stigmas before maturity. (Illustrated in Pigs. 295, 422.) 



Ocnera 6, Jipecies 41, inhabiting tbp conntries around the Mediterranean Sea, liaving no very 

 remarkable [iropertles. Reseda liiteola contains a yellow coloring matter, and other species are 

 very fragrant. 



RESEDA, L. (Lat. resedo, to calm ; the plants are said to relieve 

 pain.) Sepals 4 — 7; petals of an equal number, often cleft; torus 

 large, fleshy, one-sided, bearing the 8 — co stamens. 



1 R. lutSola L. Dyer's Weed. Lvs. lanceolate, with a tooth on each side at baae ; 

 sepals 4, united below ; petals (greenish-yellow) 3 — 5-i|teft.— (Tl Nearly naturaJ- 

 iaed in Weist. N. Y. St. about 2f high. The flowers are arranged in a long 

 spike, which, as Linnaeus observes, foUows the course of the sun, inclining east, 

 south and west, by day, and north by night. — It aflbrds a useful yellow dye, also, 

 the paint called Dutch pink. § Eur. 



2 R. odorata L. Mignonette. Fig. 295, 422. Lvs. cuneiform, entire or 

 3-lobed; sop. shorter than the 7^-13-cleft petals. — A well known and universal 

 favorite of tho garden, native of Egypt. The flowers are higlily fragrant and no 

 bouquet should be considered complete without them. The variety prutesoens is 

 by a peculiar training (§87) made perennial and raised to the height of 21^ 

 with the form of a tree. The species phyteiuna, native of Palestine, has a calyx 

 larger than the petals. 



Order XVI. VIOLACE^. Violets. 



Serbs with simple (often cleft) alternate leaves with stipules. Fls. irregular, 

 spurred, with tlie sepals, petals and stamens in 5s. Sep. persistent, slightly united, 

 elongated at base, the 2 lateral interior. Petals commonly unequal, the inferior 

 usually spurred at base. Sta. 5, usually inserted on tho hj-pogyuous disk. FH 

 dilated, prolonged beyond the anthers. Ova. of 3 united carpels, with 3 parietal 



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