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short stalk with a small gland at its base. Fruit a slender 
capsule on an elongated stalk.* 
1. C. serrulata Pursh.: Rocky Mountain BEE Puant, STINKING 
Cuiover. A smooth plant 2 ft. or more high. Leaves with 8 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. RESEDACEZ. MIGNONETTE FAMILY 
Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate, 
simple or pinnately cut. Flowers racemed or spiked, bracted. 
Calyx 4-T-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. Flowers 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.* 
1. R. odorata L. Micnonetrte. 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. SARRACENIACEZ. Pircuer Pruant Famiry 
Perennial, apparently stemless, marsh herbs. Leaves tubu- 
Jar or trumpet-shaped. Flowers single, nodding, on a naked 
or bracted scape. Sepals 4-5, colored, persistent. Petals 5, 
deciduous, or sometimes wanting. Stamens numerous. Pistil 
compound, 5-celled, many-ovuled; style terminal, nearly as 
broad as the flower, shield-shaped.* 
