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/. CISTACEJJ. 
few-seeded follicles. Seeds kidney-shaped ; embryo curved 
mostly exalbuminous. 
1. Reseda. Pet. unequal entire or variously laciniate. Stam. 
10-24. Styles 3-6. Caps. 3-6-angular. 
1. Reseda L. 
fl. R. Luteola L. Dyer’s Weed or Weld. Lirio. 
St. erect ; 1. undivided elongato-lanceolate entire with usually 
a single small toothlet on each side at their base ; cal. 4-cleft. — 
Desf. i. 373; Brot. ii. 305; Buch 196. no. 323; EB. t. 320; 
Sm. E. Fl. ii. 347 ; Presl 112 ; Koch 97 ; Bab. 35. — Herb. ann. 
or bien. Mad. reg. 1, 2, cc ; PS. reg. 1, 2, c ; ND. r, or ■§ ; GD. c. 
Open waste ground everywhere. Spr., Sum. — Whole pi. smooth 
and shining. St. virgate branched 1-3 ft. high. L. undulate 
dark green. Fl. scentless pale greenish-ochroleucous, in long 
terminal erect tapering racemes densely crowded and spicate 
upwards. Pet. 3-5, the 3 upper laciniate. Caps, verrucose or 
granulate 6-valved 3-cuspidate, the points of the alternate 
valves indexed. — Used by the country people to dye woollen 
yellow or green. — Luteola tinctoria var. australis AVB. ! i. 106 
by Bourgeau’s spec, in HII. and BII. seems to be merely a 
tridiug accidental form or more branched state of the common 
pi. such as I have seen in Madeira produced by the cropping 
or browsing down of the main st. before dowering. 
Order YII. CISTACE^E. 
The Cistus Family. 
Fl. regular. Sep. 5 persistent unequal, the two outer larger 
or smaller sometimes wanting, 3 inner twisted in aestivation. 
Pet. 5 equal fugacious crumpled and twisted contrariwise to 
the sep. in aestivation. Stam. numerous free. Stigma capitate. 
Ovary free. Fr. a 3-, 5- or 10-valved 1-many-locular many- 
seeded capsule. Embryo spiral or curved within the farina- 
ceous albumen. 
1. Cistus. Sep. 5, the 2 outer larger or smaller or 0. Pet. 5 
fugacious. Caps. 5- or 10-valved. — L. opposite without 
stip. 
1. Cistus L. 
fl. C. MONSPEi.iENSis L. Alecrim do. Fora. 
E. sessile linear-lanceolate 3-nerved reticulato-rugose villous 
on both sides, presently smooth ; d. in villous viscous secund 
corymbose racemes, stigma nearly sessile. — Brot. ii. 260 ; Desf. 
