TETRANDRIA^MONOGYNIA. Asperula. 197 



^^7T^'n nV: Giss^^JPend. 96. /.3. Blair BoL E.s. 155. L4. 

 J. 6. Hall. Hist. n. 734. v. 1 . 321 



Rubeola arvensis coerulea repens. Bauh. Prodr. 1 45. RaiiSyn. 225 

 Asperula flore cameo, acuto folio. Barrel. Ic. i.54\.f.\. ^ ^''' 



In fallow fields, or among corn, on a light, or gravelly, soil 

 Annual. June— August. t> > 6 y, >oii. 



Root small. Herb generally hairy. Stems several, branched 

 spreadmg, mostly decumbent, square, leafy, 3 to G inches lon^ 

 Leaves 6 ma whorl, obovate, acute, entire, palish meen 

 roughest at the edges and keel. Fl. in a sessile terminal umbel' 

 enveloped with 1 or 2 of the upper whorls, whose leaves are 

 narrower, often more numerous, than the rest. Cor. slender of 

 yfXh'f ^"''i ^/^//;, tawny. Stigmas c.plt^te. Fndt 

 of 2 globular, closely combmed seeds, roughish, crowned with 

 the somewhat enlarged cali/x. 



This is perhaps the only genuine species of SJwrardia. Two others 

 muralis- :ind erecta, may be seen in the Flora Grcrca ; but these 

 have oblong disunited seeds, whose crown is but obscure, and 

 vvhose>^j;er6- are yellow, with simple stigmas. S. fruticosa of 

 Linnaeus has not the cahjx proper to the genus, and resembles 

 in habit Lrmdea montana, Fl. Grwc. t. 143. 



68. ASPERULA. Woodruff. 



Linn. Gen. 50. Juss. 196. Fl. Br. 172. Lam. t.6]. 



Nat. Ord. see 7i. 67. 



Cal. superior of 4 small teeth, deciduous. Cor. monopeta- 

 ous funnel-shaped; tube nearly cylindrical, various in 

 length; hmb in 4, occasionally but 3, deep, oblong, spread- 

 ing segments. Filam. in the mouth of the tube, alternate 

 with the segments, short. Antk. of 2 round lobes. Germ, 

 inferior, of 2 roundish lobes, %/e thread-shaped, divided 

 at the upper part Sttgm. capitate, small. Seeds 2, naked, 

 combined, globular, not crowned by the calyx. 



Herbaceous, or somewhat shrubb3^, all European, of rather 

 humble stature. Leaves sessile, whorled, either nume- 

 rously, or not more than 4. FL always terminal, imnicled, 

 white, or reddish, rarely yellowish or blue; often fra- 

 grant. Seeds rough or smooth. 



1 . A. odorata. Sweet Woodruff. 



Leaves eight in a whorl, lanceolate. Panicles stalked, of 

 tew flowers. 



A.odorata. Linn. Sp.Pl.XbO. Willd. v. 1.575. FL Br.\72 Ensl 

 Bot. v.W t. 755. Cart. Lond.fasc. 4. t 15. Hook. Scot. 50. Fl 

 Dan. t. o62. Dod. Pcmpt. 355./. milem. Stcll. 65. 



