RESEDA. 



n good green ; the cloth being firft dyed blue. The herb 

 is annual, flowering in July. Root fpindle-fliaped. Stem 

 erect, wand-like, two or three feet high, branched, 1 

 llriated, fmooth. Leaves linear -lanceolate, entire, fmooth, 

 for the mod part furnilhed with a fniall callous tooth, on 

 each fide, at the bale. Flowers fmall, cream-coloured, 

 very numerous, in long, fimple, folitary, terminal, (lightly 

 drooping fpikes, which, according to Linnaeus, follow the 

 courle ot the fun, even in a cloudy day — 



" True, as the dial, to the fun, 

 Although it be not fhined upon." 



2. R. canefcens. Hoary Bafe Rocket. Linn. Syfl. Nat. 

 ed. 12. v. 2. 330. Willd. n. 2. Ait. n. 2? Vahl. Symb. 

 v. 2. 52. (R. hexagyna ; Forlk. ^Egypt-Arab. 92. Se- 

 famoides falmanticum parvum alterum ; Cluf. Hilt. v. 1 . 

 296, np figure. S. flore albo, loliis canefcentibus ; Tourn. 

 lull. 424.) — Leares lanceolate, waved, fomewhat hairy. 

 Branches hifpid. — Native of watte ground near Cairo. For- 



Jlall. Probably alfo of the louth of Europe. The Jiems 

 are decumbent, branched, eighteen inches or more in length, 

 round, leafy, rough with copious, minute, white, fpreading, 

 fhort, briltly hairs. Leaves fcattered, lanceolate, one and 

 a half or two inches long, bluutiih, entire, wavy, and 

 roughifh at the edges, as well as at the midrib on both fides ; 

 otherwife fmooth, and fomewhat glaucous ; tapering at the 

 bafe, and fending down two elevated ribs, for fome diftahce, 

 along the branch. Flowers in long, terminal, (talked, 

 hairy clufters, on fhort partial (talks. Calyx five-cleft. 

 Petals white. Germen, according to Forfkal's defcription, 

 Italked, with hxjlyles. — Vahl has well remarked that R. 

 canefeens of Sp. PI. cannot be the fame with the above. 

 Indeed it appears to be no other than either R. fifam 

 or purpurafcens, the figure of Clufius agreeing belt with the 

 former ; his defcription and the Linnsean definition with 

 the latter. Yet this fame figure, adopted by Gerarde, 

 feems to be the only foundation on which R. canefcens de- 

 pends for a place in Hort. Kew. — We have- never feen the 

 true canefcens living, nor can we find a figure of it. 



3. R. glauca. Glaucous Bafe Rocket. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 C144. Willd. n. 3. Ait. n. 3. (R. linaria' foliis ; Bauh. 

 Prodr. 42, no figure. Sefamoides linaria: fulio glauco, py-> 

 rcnaica, flore ftamineo ; Morif. feft. 15. t. 1. f. 4. — Leaves 

 linear ; toothed at the bafe. Styles four. — Native of the 

 Pyrenxan mountains ; according to Burfer's herbarium, 

 examined by Linnxus. Gathered alfo by Loefling, in 

 Spain. The root is faid to be perennial, but has the ap- 

 pearance of being annual. Whole herb glaucous, (lender, 

 and fmooth. Stem twelve or eighteen inches high, fimple, 

 round, wand-like, leafy. Leaves about two inches long, 

 very narrow ; all nearly of equal breadth, furnilhed at the 

 bale with a few white briltly teeth. CluJIer terminal, loli- 

 tary, very long, of numerous white /lowers, whofe petals 

 are lefs divided than in molt other Ipecies. 



4. R. dipctala. Flax-leaved Bale Rocket. Ait. 11. 4. 

 Willd. n. 4. Vahl. Symb. v. 2. 52. 1R . c \ iirm. 

 Prodr. 13.'— Leaves linear, entire. St les four. Petals 

 two, undivided. — Native of the Cape of Good Hope, from 

 whence its feeds were fent to Kew, in 1774, by Mr. Maflbn. 

 The plant is biennial, flowering in Auguft, being prefi 



in a ! : .'u-- through the winter. Vahl eon u 



1 1 afpect to R. Sefamoides, hereafl ir .1 fcribed. Stem 

 ionn what (lirubby, erect, with round branch s. Leaves 

 about an inch long, rather llelliy, fmooth. Clufler terminal, 

 lax. Segments of the calyx (w, minute, bordered with 

 white. Petals only two, wedge-lhaped, undivided. 



5. R. purpurafcens. PurpTilh 15ale Rocket. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 644. Willd. n. 5. (Sefamoides falmanticum parvum 



primum ; Cluf. Hid. v. 1. 296, excluding the figure. S. 

 foliis crafiis, floribus ex herbaceo purpurafcentibus 1 Tourn. 



Inlt. 424.) — Leaves linear, obtufe. Styles five. Native 



of Spain. Lafiing.— Sterns feveral, a (pan high, fimple, 

 leafy. Leaves fcattered, the length of the nail, linear, 

 obtufe, fmooth. CluJIer, or rather fpike, long, lax. Petals 

 very white, much divided. Styles live, fometimes, as Clulius 

 defcribes them, only four. Capfulc with as many protu- 

 berant, fingle-feeded, knobs or pouches. 



6. R. Sefamoides. Spear-leaved Bafe Rocket. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 644. Wilid. n. 6. Ait. n. 5. ( Sefamoides parvum 

 falmanticum ; Cluf. Hid. v. 1. 295, the figure only. Ger. 

 Em. 493. Lob. Ic. 353.) — Stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 obtule, radical ones lanceolate, (talked, much larger. Fruit 

 ilellated. -Native of Barbary, and the fouth of Europe. 

 A hardy annual in Kew garden,- flowering in July and 

 Augurt. The root is fpindle-fliaped, very long, taperin<*, 

 and branched at the extremity. Stems numerous, fpreading 

 nearly horizontally, from three to twelve inches long, gene- 

 rally fimple, fmooth, leafy. Radical-leaves numerous, lan- 

 ceolate or fomewhat obovate, entire, fmooth, an inch long, 

 tapering down into a footflalh of about the fame length ; 



flem-leaves much fmaller and narrower, linear, and obtufe. 

 Clujlers terminal, rather denfe. Petals white. Styles four 

 or live. Capfule of the fame number ot fpreading lobes, 

 fringed at the edges, and alluming a (tar-like figure. — The 

 wooden cut of Clufius fo exactly reprefents this plant, 

 efpecially the radical leaves, that we can take it for no other. 

 Allioni's plate, t. 88. f. 3, does not accord with this, or 

 any other Refecla known to us, except having a general 

 refemblance to canefcens, n. 2, without its roughnefs, or 

 the undulations of its leaves. 



7. R. fruticulofa. Shrubby Bafe Rocket. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 645. Willd. n. 7. Ait. 11. 6. Jacq. Coll. v. 3. 195. 

 Ic. Rar. t. 474. — Leaves pinnate. Stem (hrubby in the 

 lower part. Styles three or four. Petals all threccleft. 

 Calyx in live fpreading fegments. — Native of Spain, and 

 other parts of the fouth of Europe. John Symmons, efq. 

 is recorded by Mr. Aiton as having introduced it into Eng- 

 land, in 1794. The root, and bafe of theftem, are woody 

 and perennial, producing a number of upright, lels durable, 

 branches, two or three feet high, leafy, fubdivided, fmooth, 

 roiand, with elevated ribs. Leaves alternate, Italked, pin- 

 nate, of five, feven, or many more, lanceolate, entire, de- 

 current, fmooth leaflets, feldom regularly op polite ; thi 

 terminal one much the largelt, fometimes, but not always, 

 recurved at the point; the lower ones gradually fmalleit. 

 Clujlers terminal, erect, long, and rather lax. Petals five, 

 white, uniform, oblong, all cut, not nearly halt way down, 

 into three equal fegments. Styles often four; fometimes 

 but three. Stamens eleven. Linnxus thought it an inter- 

 mediate Ipecies between alba and undaia. From the firlt of 

 thefe it is very diltinft. By an accidental error in Sp. PI. 

 the prefeat fpecies is there called fuffiruticultfa, which has 

 led to the fame inaccuracy in the Prodr. Fl. Gi.ec. n, icy2. 

 The name is con 9 in Herb. 



H. R. alba. White Bale Rocket, or Upright Migno- 

 nette. Linn. Sp. Fl. 645. Willd. 11. 8. An. 1 . 7. Sin. 

 FJ. Grxe. Sibth. t. 459, unpublished. ( R. maxima; 

 Bauh. Pin. 100. Lob. Ic. 22.-. Ger. 1 m. .•--.) -Leai 

 pinnai . Stem erect, branched. Styl or four. 



ually and deepl) G 1 I ft. Calyx in five 

 nents.— Nal n and the fouth of 



Franc 1! as of Greece and I I of Zante. It 



has been cultivated in our g . days of 



( , being a hard] 01 1 .ted, 



throughout the fummer, with cop 



gant white Jlowers, whofe petals have deepei 



ous 



