198 TETIiANDHIA— MONOGYNIA. Asperula. 



But. v.W. t. 75.'). Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 15. Hook. Scot. 50. Ft. 



Dan. t. 5G2. Dod. Pempf. 355./. JVillem. Stell 65! 

 Asperula. Ger. Em. 1 124./ HaiiSyn.224. Mill. lc. L55./2. 

 A. n. 728. HaB. tfitf.v. l.,319. 



Matrisylva. Frog. //«/. 496./ 

 Galium Matrisylva. Wiggers Holsat. 13. 

 Hepatica altera. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 191. V. 2. 82./ 



In dry mountainous woods. 



Perennial. May. 



Root creeping. Stems simple, annual, a span high, angular, smooth, 

 leafy. Leaves 7 — 9 in each whorl, usually 8, bright green, 

 spreading, about an inch long, rough at the edges only. Pani- 

 cles generally 3 together, on longish stalks, forked, not much 

 subdivided. Fl. pure white, with a short tube ; fragrant chiefly 

 at night. Fruit rough with ascending bristles. The herb while 

 drying has the scent of new hay, approaching to bitter almonds, 

 or Heliotropium peruvianum, of which it retains a portion some 

 time. The edges of the leaves stick to the hands, or clothes, in 

 a manner almost peculiar to the rough plants of this natural or- 

 der, caused by the minute hooked bristles to which that rough- 

 ness is owing. 



2. A. cynanchica. Small Woodruff. Squinancy-wort. 



Leaves linear, four in a whorl ; the upper ones very un- 

 equal. Flowers all four-cleft. Fruit smooth. 



A. cynanchica. Linn. Sp. PI. 151. Willd.v. 1.579. Fl.Br.\72. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 1. t.33. Willem. Stell. 67. 



A.n. 730. Hall. Hist. v. 1.320. 



Rubeola vulgaris quadrifolia laevis floribus purpurantibus. Baii 

 Syn. 225. 



Rubia cynanchica. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 720. / 



Galium montanum latifolium cruciatum. Column. Ecphr.v. 1.296. 

 *.297./. 1. 



Synanchica. Dalech. Hist. 1185. Ger. Em. 1120. 



On dry chalky sunny banks, abundantly in the chalk counties, but 

 not in Scotland or Wales. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Stems numerous, ascending, from 4 to 6 inches high, copiously 

 clothed with linear smooth leaves, for the most part 4 in a whorl ; 

 but some of the uppermost are 2 of them so diminished, as to 

 have been overlooked, even by Linnaeus. Fl. in terminal pa- 

 nicled tufts, sometimes very fragrant. Cor. white or blush-co- 

 loured, elegantly marked with three red lines on each segment. 

 Fruit granulated, as Professor Schrader has remarked to me ; 

 though not bristly, as in Columna's figure. 



Physicians do not, in our days, rely on the practice of old Dale- 

 champ, who recommends this plant, outwardly as well as in- 

 wardly, to cure the Squinancy, or Quinsy, Hence however wc 



