. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. re abor-tive male flowers, and the disk a calyx of one central bisexual flower. I am, however,now convinced, by the arguments of Henslow, that this theory was eiToneous, and Iaccordingly revert to the old view of the organisation and affinities of the latter are chiefly mth Capparids, with which the seeds, the great disk out ofwliich the stamens arise, and the parietal placentae, agree. All these plants are weeds inhabiting Emope, the adjoinmg parts of Asia, the bas
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. re abor-tive male flowers, and the disk a calyx of one central bisexual flower. I am, however,now convinced, by the arguments of Henslow, that this theory was eiToneous, and Iaccordingly revert to the old view of the organisation and affinities of the latter are chiefly mth Capparids, with which the seeds, the great disk out ofwliich the stamens arise, and the parietal placentae, agree. All these plants are weeds inhabiting Emope, the adjoinmg parts of Asia, the basinof the Mediterranean, and the adjacent islands. A very few occur in the North ofIndia, the Cape of Good Hope, and Cahfomia. Little more is known of their uses than that Reseda luteola, called Weld, yields ayellow dye, and that the Mignonette (R. odorata) is among the most fragrant of were once regarded as sedative, as is indicated by the word Reseda. They aregenerally sub-acrid ; nevertheless Reseda Phyteuma, the oxifTTpa of the modern Greeks,is eaten as a kitchen escvQent in the Greek Fig. CCXLYII. Ochradenus, , , Tournef. GENERA. I Eresda, Spach. i Elimia, Nutt. Oligomeris, Ca»«&e**. Holopetalum, Turcz. Resedella, Webb et B. Astrocarpus, Neck. I Sesamoides, , Caylusea, St. Hil. Numbers. Gen. 6. Sp. Resedaceje.—Capparidacese. Fig. CCXLVII.—Reseda mediterranea. 1. a flower seen from above, much magnified ; 2. a section ofthe same, showing the gi-eat disk on one side of the ovary, and within which the stamens arise ; 3. a crosssection of the ovary ; 4. a seed ; 5. a section of it. CiSTALES.] 357 Order CXXV. CAPPARlDACEiE.—Capparids. Capparideae, Jkss. Gen. 242. (1789) ; Ann. Mits. 18. 474 ; DC. Prodr. ; Endl. ;Meisner, Gen. p. \7 ; Wight. Illustr. 1. 33. Diagnosis.—Cistal Exogens^with stamens not tetrachjnamous, tetramerous flowers, exalhu-minoi
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