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a, DC. 1. c. ; R. Radicula Presl 108. — /3. oblonga ; root oblong or 
fusiform, at first fleshy purple red or white, then slender woody 
or fibrous : DC. 1. c. ; Presl 1. c. ; It. sativus j3. sylvestris Koch 
1019. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2 ; r. Cult, and in waste groimd 
and vineyards about Funchal, &c. occasionally, escaped from 
gardens. Nov.-March. — St. branched erect 2-3 ft. high. Lower 
1. lyrate, upper lanceolate ; all somewhat hispid. FI. pale lilac 
with darker veins. Seeds large angular beautifully reticulato- 
punctate. 
2. R. Raphanistrum L. Saramago. 
Pods linear slender tapering acuminate moniliform or stran- 
gulated between the seeds 1-celled and longitudinally ribbed or 
striated when ripe ; seeds even. — Brot. i. 574; I)C. i. 229 ; Sm. 
E. FI. iii. 226; WB. i. 84, 5; Koch 84, 1019; Bab. 34.— Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 1,2; ccc. PS. 1, 2 ; r. Cornfields waste ground 
and bv roadsides in Madeira everywhere but especially from 1000 
to 2000 ft. March-June chiefly but at almost all seasons. — 
Hispid dark green, st. glaucescent diffusely spreading or strag- 
gling 1-2 ft. long. Root slender fibrous. L. lyrate toothed, 
terminal lobe large. FI. rather large. Sep. erect soon turning 
purplish. Pods smooth about an inch long, 2-4 times as long 
as their subulate acuminate smooth or adpresso-pubescent beak, 
when ripe breaking across between the seeds as if jointed, 
2-celled whilst very young but the longitudinal dissepiment 
soon obliterated, the seeds becoming imbedded in a spongy 
mass. — Var. : 
a. DC., Koch 1. c. ; fl. white with blackish violet veins giving 
them a bluish tint. — Not common. About S. Amaro and S. 
Martinho intermixed with /3. and equally abundant. 
y. DC., Koch 1. c. ; fl. pale dull yellow (ochroleucous) or 
straw-colour with darker or dusky (not violet) veins. — EB. 
t. 856. Common everywhere. The fl. become deeper y. ascend- 
ing from the sea. 
Order VI. RESEDACEiE. 
The Mignonette Family. 
Fl. irregular. Cal. 4-6-partite persistent. Cor. irregular, 
pet. 4-6 unequal alternate with the sepals deciduous. Stam. 
indefinite numerous, fil. free or variously united, inserted on a 
glandular fleshy flat collar-like or ruff-like irregular unequally 
dilated disk broadest and scale-like on the upper side. Ovary 
3-6-lobed, 1-celled, multiovular, with 3-6 parietal placentas 
and 3-6 stigmas. Fr. a 1-celled manv-seeded caps, open from 
an early stage at the top and exposing the seeds ; rarely of 3-6 
