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1. RESEDA. 
The characters as above. There are several species occa- 
sionally seen in cultivation, but none of them have much to 
recommend them except the fragrant species. Name from 
resedo, in allusion to its reputed medicinal qualities. There 
are two native biennial species, R. Luteola, Weld, and R. listea, 
the former with entire, and the latter with lobed leaves. 
1. R. odorata, Mignonette.—This favourite plant is too 
"well known to need description. It is believed to have origi- 
nally come from Asia Minor or Egypt. As an out-door plant 
it is annual with us, but in the south and grown under glass 
it is perennial, though of short duration. There are several 
improved varieties in cultivation. 
Orprr XIL—CISTINEA. 
Dwarf, trailing, or erect shrubs with opposite or alternate 
simple usually entire leaves with large or small or no stipules 
and solitary or racemose showy ephemeral flowers. Flowers 
regular. Sepals 3 to 5, imbricate, the two outer usually 
smaller or absent. Petals 5, scareely clawed, imbricate, spread- 
ing, very thin and fugacious. Stamens many, hypogynous; 
filaments free, filiform. Capsule l-celled, or several-celled 
in consequence of the projecting parietal placentas; seeds 
numerous, albuminous, orthotropous. Chiefly from the Medi- 
terranean region; a few dispersed throughout Europe, and a 
few found in North and South America, and Central and Eastern 
Asia. 
1. HELIANTHEMUM. 
Prostrate trailing herbaceous perennials or undershrubs. 
Flowers usually racemose. Valves and placentas of the capsule 
3. About thirty species are known. The name is derived 
from #Avos, the sun, and dvGepov, a flower. Some species have 
dimorphic flowers, similar to the violet. They are only suit- 
able for rock-work. Besides H. vulgare there are three other 
indigenous species: H. guttdtwm, an annual, flowers yellow 
with a red eye; H. ciémum and H. polifoliwm, trailing shrubby 
species, the first with small yellow flowers, and the latter white. 
1. H. Algarvénse, syn. H. ocymoides.—This is an erect- 
growing species about 2 feet high, more like a Cistus, to which 
