Mr. P. Neil, in Hook. FI. Scot. Near Kirkcaldy : Mr. Chalmers, ibid. Near 
Kaith : Mr. 1). Don, ibid. Between Arbroath and Montrose: Mr. Don, ibid. 
Hoad-side between Linlithgow and Falkirk : Mr. Maugiian, ibid. Debris of 
Salisbury Craigs: Mr. D. Sri uaiit, in Grev. FI. lulin. Annat Park, Kilspin- 
die, Perthshire: Mr. YV. Gorrie, in Loud. Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. iii. p. 440. — 
IRELAND. On a gravelly bank by the side of the road, under the Strawberry 
banks, near Chjpelizod : Mr. J. T. Mack a y, in Cat. of PI. of Ireland. 
Annual. — If the Winter is mild it is sometimes Biennial, or even 
Perennial. — Flowers from June to September. 
Root somewhat woody. Stem from 1 to 2 feet high, very much 
branched, thick, woody, striated, leafy, nearly smooth. Leaves alter- 
nate, somewhat stalked, with minute gland-like stipulas at the base, 
smooth, very various, upper ones deeply 3-cleft (trifid), lower ones 
wing-cleft (pinnatifid), or doubly wing-cleft (bipinnatifid), the seg- 
ments in all strap-shaped, entire, flat, or wavy. Clusters terminal, 
many-flowered, tapering. Flowers buff-coloured, slightly scented, 
each on a partial flower-stalk, with a small bractea at its base. Calyx 
cut into 6 narrow strap-shaped segments. Petals 6, variously and 
unequally lobed, two upper ones with 2 wing-like lobes, two lateral 
ones unequally 2- or 3-cleft, two lower ones nearly entire. Nectary 
greenish-yellow, fringed. Stamens about 20, hanging down. Cap- 
sule triangular, open at top, and terminated by the 3 (sometimes 4) 
permanent stigmas. Seeds somewhat kidney-shaped, black and shining. 
Every part of the plant is clothed, more or less, with minute, semi- 
transparent glands. 
The larva of Pontia daplidia, of Curt. Blit. Entom. v. i. t. 48, 
and Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. v. ii. p. 228, fig. 61, feeds upon this 
species as well as on various Cruciferce. It is one of our rarest 
British Butterflies, not above 5 or 6 having been caught in this coun- 
try previous to 1829. 
t he Natural Order Resedacea *, of which Reseda is the only British exam- 
ple, was, 1 believe, hi nt established by M. De Candolle; it is composed of her- 
baceous, dicotyledonous plants, with alternate leaves, the surface of which is 
minutely papillose ; and minute, gland-like stipula. The Calyx is inferior, 
permanent, and deeply cut into from 4 to 6 segments. The Corolla consists of 
from 4 to 6 irregular, lobed Petals. The Stamens are inserted below the Germen 
(hypogynous), and vary in number from 10 to 15 or 20 ; the Filaments are up- 
right, and the Anthers 2-celled, each cell opening by a longitudinal groove. 
Between the Petals and the Stamens is a kind of annular or shield-shaped, glan- 
dular mass ( nectary of Ltnn.9, which is more elevated on the upper side, and 
thus forms a liypogyuous disk of a peculiar kind. The Ovary ( Germen) is ses- 
sile, 3-lobed. 1-celled, and many-seeded, with 3 parietal placenta (recepta- 
cles). Stiymas 3, glandular, sessile. Fruit (Capsule) dry and membranous, 
or succulent, opening at the summit. Seeds several, kidney-shaped, attached to 
3 parietal placentae; the embryo is taper, curved, without albumen; and the 
radicle or rootlet is superior. 
Dr. Lindley, Professor of Botany in the London University, has given a very 
difteient explanation of the flower of Reseda. This distinguished Botanist con- 
siders the Calyx (tig. 2. ) as a common involucrum ; the Petals (fig. 3. a, b b, 
and c,) as so many neutral florets ; and the Nectary, a Calyx of a. fertile 
floret in the middle, composed of Stamens and Pistils.— See bis very splendid 
work, entitled Collectanea Botanica, t. 22. : and his Introduction to the Na- 
tural System of Botany, p. 106. 
The ltev. ,L S. Henslow, M. A. See. Professor of Botany in the University of 
Cambridge, has published a very interesting and curious paper “ On a Monstro- 
sity of the common Mignionette,” in the Transactions of the Cambridge Philo- 
sophical Society, vol. v. pt. i. (1833.) 
* The properties of this family are little known. Reseda luteola yields a 
yellow dye, and the Mignonette, Reseda odorata, is cultivated for the sake of its 
delightfully fragrant flouers. 
