666 4? 13. Reseda. 75. RESEDA CEiE. BL.ex.thaL 
perisperm very thin or 0; corculum roundish, bent; coty- 
ledons thick; radicle above.-— Stem herbaceous ; leaves not 
cut or pinnatifid; flowers racemose, yellow or white, brac- 
teated. 
4-14. RESEDA. Pliny. Dyers- weed. 
Calyx 4 or 6-cut ; petals 4 or 6, lobed ; upper petal with 
a nectary at the bottom; stamens 10 to 20, dedicate. 
1. Reseda salicifolia. Willow-leaved dyers-weed. 
Leaves lanceolate, waved, not cut ; calyx 4-cut ; stem 
upright. 
Reseda q. Luteola, Raii Syn. 366, 2. 
Luteola, Ger. em. 494. 
Luteola vulgaris, Park. 602. 
Reseda Luteola, Lin. S. P. 643. 
Yellow weed. Wild weld. Dyers weed. 
Waysides and walls, also cultivated on poor soils; an- 
nual ; June and July. 
Root fusiform ; stem stiff, branched ; leaves bald ; spike 
many-flowered, bracteated; middle petal 4-cut ; side petals 
entire or 3-cut ; nectary crenated. — Plant affords a yellow 
dye much used; also used to make the yellow paint, called 
Dutch pink : on rich soils the stem becomes hollow, and 
contains less colouring matter. 
]S. polygalcefolia . Flowers small ; capsules slender, three- 
toothed. 
Reseda q. Luteola minima polygalse folio Du Bois, Dillen in Raii Syn. 
367, 2* 
2. Reseda lulea. Yellow dyers 2 * * * * * * 9 weed . 
Lower leaves pinnatifid, waved ; upper 3-cut; calyx six- 
parted ; capsules oblong, triangular, truncated at the tip. 
Reseda vulgaris, Raii Syn. 366, 1. 
Reseda Plinii, Ger. em. 277, 1 . 
Reseda minor, sen vulgaris, Park. 825. 
Reseda lutea, Lin. S. P. 615. 
Base rocket. Italian rocket. Wild mignonette. 
Chalky fields and hills; annual; July and August. 
Root woody ; stems branched ; leaf-lobes channelled, bald : 
spike upright ; petals 6, variously lobed ; nectary jagged ; 
capsules wrinkled. 
#. crispa, Leaves curled. 
Reseda crispa Gall ica , Raii Syn. 366, 2.* 
