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RESEDA odorata. @. suffrutescens. 
Tree-Mignonette. 
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DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CAppartpes. Jussieu gen. 242. Div. I. Genera Cappa- 
ridibus affinia. 
RESEDA. Cal. 4-6-partitus. Pet. hypogyna, 4-6 aut plura, irregu- 
laria, nunc omnia trifida, nunc quedam indivisa, supremo ad basin glan- 
duloso gibbo et mellifero. Stam. hypogyna, filamentis brevibus, antheris 
erectis. Germ. subsessile; styli 8-5, aut 0; stig. 8-5. Caps. angulata 1-loc. 
polysperma, receptaculis seminiferis 3-5-angularibus; sem. numerosa reni- 
formia; embryo incurvus absque albumine. Herbe; folia alterna bast 
2-glandulosa, indivisa in Luteola Tourn. et in Sesamoide Tourn., partita in 
Reseda Tourn. ; flores spicati terminales ; capsula Resedx oblonga prismatica 
apice retusa, Luteole brevior profundiis divisa et quasi 3 rostris, Sesamoidis 
§-partita patens, pan stellattm 5-capsularis. Numerus partium varius, con- 
stans hiatus capsule et glandula petali supremi. Genus a Capparidibus dis- 
crepans pelalorum et stigmatum numero, ceteriim affine precipue embryone. 
Juss. 
R. odorata, foliis integris trilobisque, calycibus florem zquantibus. Zinn. 
sp. pl. 1. 646. 
~ Reseda odorata. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.6. Hort. Kew. 2. 133. ed. 2. 3. 155. 
Curtis's magaz. 29. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 881. Desfont. atl. 1. 376. Lamarck 
encyc. 6. 162. ‘ 
R. foliis integris trilobisque, floribus tetragynis. Mill. ic. tab. 217. 
(A) suffrutescens. 
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This well-known annual is here presented in the state of 
a suffrutescent perennial; a form it has been made. to 
assume by appropriate treatment. The species is native of 
Egypt, and was also found wild by Professor Desfontaines, 
in the sands near Mascar, on the coast of Barbary. Stated 
in the Hortus Kewensis to have been first cultivated by Miller 
in 1752; but, by a MS. note in Sir Joseph Banks’s library, 
we find the seed was sent in 1742 by Lord Bateman, from 
the Royal Garden at Paris, to Mr. Richard Bateman, at Old 
Windsor. Professor Desfontaines marks it as annual in his 
Flora Atlantica; so that it does not seem to be longer lived 
in its proper climate than here, where advancing winter 
infallibly destroys it in the open ground. 
The plant we have figured was brought by Lady Whit- 
shed from Liége, and given by her to Sir Joseph Banks, 
under whose observation none had ever fallen in this shape. 
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