By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 



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and dividing transversely into as many indehiscent cells, as there 

 are seeds. This is the true structure of the siliqua lomentacea. 



ORDER. RESEDACEiE. (DE CAND.) 

 Reseda, (Linn.) Mignionette. 

 Linn. CI. xL Ord. iii. 



Name. From resedo, (Lat.) to allay pain. <( Reseda morbos reseda." 

 (i.e. "Reseda, allay these diseases") are part of the words of a charm 

 quoted by Pliny. 



1. R. lutea, (Linn.) Wild Mignionette. Yellow Rocket. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 321. Reich. Icones, ii. 100. 



Locality. Waste places in chalky and limestone districts. B. 

 Fl. June, August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



South-east District, " Not uncommon on the chalk in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Salisbury," Major Smith and Mr. James Hussey. 

 "Amesbury," Dr. Southby. 



2. South Middle District, More or less distributed over Salisbury 

 Plain. " Devizes," Mm Cunnington. " Westbury," Mrs. Overbury. 



3. South-west District, "Warminster," Mr. Wheeler. "Fifield," 

 Miss C. M. Griffith. Hindon and Great Ridge. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Abundant in neglected quarries about 

 North Wraxhall, Castle Combe, and Corsham. "Chippenham," 

 Dr. Alexander Prior. Kingsdown and Atworth. 



5. North-east District, " Great Bedwyn," Mr. William Bartlett. 

 This species much resembles the Sweet Mignionette "R. odorata" 



of the gardens, a native of Egypt. 1 



1 By a manuscript note in the library of the late Sir Joseph Banks, it appears 

 that the seed of the Mignionette was sent in 1742, by Lord Bateman, from the 

 Royal Garden at Paris to Mr. Richard Bateman at Old Windsor, but we should 

 presume that this seed was not dispersed, and perhaps not cultivated beyond 

 Mr. Bateman' s garden, as we find that Mr. Miller received the seed from Dr. 

 Adrian Van Royen of Leyden, and cultivated it in the Botanic Garden at Chel- 

 sea, in the year 1752. From Chelsea it soon got into the gardens of the London 

 florists, so as to enable them to supply the metropolis with plants to furnish out 

 the balconies, which is noticed by Cowper, who attained the age of twenty-one 

 in the year that this flower first perfumed the British atmosphere by its fra- 



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