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2. CLEdOIE L. 



Petals entire, with claws. Stamens 6. Receptacle somewhat produced be- 

 tween the petals and stamens, and hearing a gland behind the stipitate ovary, 

 Pod linear to oblong, many-seeded. — Our species annuals with- bracteate ra- 

 cemes. (Name of uncertain derivation, early applied to some mustard-like 

 plant. ) 



1. C. serruljlta Pursh. (Stinking Clover.) Glabrous ; leaves 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets lance-oblong, mostly entire ; petals white or rose-colored, short-clawed ; 

 stipe of pod as long as the pedicel. (C integrifolia T. & G.) — Dry mostly 

 saline soil, Minn, to n. 111., Mo., Kan., westw. aud northwestw. ; rarely eastw. 

 along railroads. — Flowers showy. 



2. C. spin6sa L. (Spider-flower.) Viscid-pubescent ; leaflets 5-7, lanceo- 

 late, serrulate ; petals white or rose-colored. — Cultivated, and occasionally 

 escaping to waste grounds. (In trod, from the tropics.) 



3. C. liltea Hook. Lower leaves 5-foliolate ; flowers yellow. — Western spe- 

 cies, reported from Weeping Water, Neb. (Wehher). 



RESEDAcEAE (Mignonette Family) 



Herbs, with unsymmetrical ir-l-merous small flowers, a flashy 1-sided hypogy- 

 nous disk between the petals and the (3-40) stamens, bearing the latter. Calyx 

 not closed in the bud. Capsule S-6-lobed, 3-6-horned, 1-celled, with 3-6 parietal 

 placentae, opening at the top before the seeds (which are as in Gapparidaceae) 

 are full grown. — Leaves alternate, with only glands for stipules. Flowers in 

 terminal spikes or racemes. A small and unimportant family of the Old 

 World, represented by the Mignonette (JReseda odorata) and the Dyer's Weed. 



1. RESEDA [Tourn.] L. Mignonette. Dyer's Rocket 



Petals 4-7, cleft, unequal. Stamens 12-40, on one side of the flower. (Name 

 from resedare, to calm, in allusion to suppqped sedative properties.) 



1. R. LuxioLA L. (Dyer's Weed or Weld.) Leaves lanceolate; calyx 

 4-parted ; petals 4, greenish yellow ; the upper one 3^5-cleft, the two lateral 

 3-cleft, the lower one linear and entire ; capsule depressed. — Roadsides* and 

 ballast, Mass. to Pa., local. — Plant 6 dm. high, used for dyeing yellow. (Adv. 

 from Eu. ) 



2. R. LtiTEA L. Low, decumbent; leaves irregularly pinnate-parted or 

 bipinnatifld ; flowers pale yellow ; sepals and petals 6 ; stamens 15-20. — 

 Meadows and waste places, Mass. to Pa.; also Mich. (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. R. ALBA L. Tall, erect ; leaves pinnately and rather regularly parted ; 

 flowers greenish white ; stamens 12-15 ; petals 5-6. — Waste places, becoming 

 more common. (Adv. from Eu.) 



SARRACENlACEAE (Pitohek-plant Family) 



Polyandrous and hypogynous hog-plants, with hollow pitcher-formed or 

 trumpet-shaped leaves, — comprising one plant of Guiana, another (^Darling- 

 tonia Torr.) in California, and the following genus. 



1. SARRACfiNIA [Toum.] L 



Sepals 5, with 8 bractlets at the base, colored, persistent. Petals 5, oblong 

 or obovate, incurved, deciduous. Stamens numerous, hypogynous. Ovary 

 compound, 5-celled, globose, crowned with a short style, which is expanded at 

 tlje summit Ji)to a very broad and petal-ljke 5-angled 5-yayed umbrella-shaped 



