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Reseda alba. Linn. 



Hab. In montibus Calpe, las Alpujarras, Sierra Tejtda, et alibi 

 in Baetica\ 

 Reseda gigantea. Pourr. 



Hab. In torrentium glarea prope Eliberim (Rambur). Praece- 

 denti valde atlinis. 

 Reseda Phyteuma. Linn. 



Hab. In Hispaniis frequens, variat caule et foliis hispidis. 

 Reseda macrosperma. Reichb. 



Hab. Prope Gades, Alcald de los Gazules, et passim per totam 

 Baeticam. 

 Luteola tinctoria. Var. australis Webb et Berth. Phyt. 

 Can. pag. 106. 



Hab. InBasticae arvis et ruderatis vulgaris. 

 Luteola complicata. 

 Reseda complicata. Bory. 



Hab. In montibus editioribus Alpium Eliberitanarum, legi ad 

 basin cacuminis excelsi elPicacho de la Veleta, ubi primus ar- 

 mis accinctusinvenit celeberrimus chiliarcbus Bory. In monte 

 Mulahasen, qui ter centum et amplius pedes speculae ( seu 

 de la Veleta ) rupes supereminet non defectura, quern ta- 

 men, quod nunc mihi dolet, e longinquo tantum prospicere, 

 nee aggredi unquam licuit. 



Obs. The character of the genus Luteola (see Plnjtogr. Can. p. 104) 

 must be altered so as to admit this species and the Luieola glauca 

 ( Reseda glauca, Linn. ). The capsule in the three species is similarly- 

 formed, and differs only in the number of its valves, a difference oc- 

 curring equally in the genus Reseda, and I learn from M. Gay, who 

 has made long and accurate researches on the species of this family, 

 that the value of the number of parts in the group is less than I sup- 

 posed, and indeed almost null. Another difference between. L. tinc- 

 toria and its two congeners consists in the singlelargeupperpetal ofthe 

 former, but this anomaly has been most ingeniously explained, and 

 its differential value diminished in the learned memoirs of M. A. de 

 St-Hilaire on the Resedaeece (see Prem. Mem. pag. 14. likewise our 

 obs. ad calc. Resedelloz Phyt. Can. pag. 107). Even if we do not ad- 

 mil the very remarkable hypothesis of M. de St-Hilaire, there is no- 

 thing in the enlargement of one petal and not of two in this strange 

 family to prevent the union ofthe three species of Luteola. The ge- 

 nus therefore , as I propose to reconstruct it, will contain two groups, 

 one formed of L. tinctoria, the other of L. glauca, and L. complicata. 

 I intend to develop this view of it in the Spanish iconography now 

 preparing. 



