."»,* Rubiaceae 



tube ovoid or globose, the limb minutely toothed 01 



wanting. (Vrolla rotate, 4-lohe<l. Stamens 1, alternate 

 with the corolla-lobes ; filaments short. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules 1 in each cavity. Styles 2, short ; stigmas capi- 

 tate. Fruit biglobular, dry or fleshy, smooth, tubercu- 

 late or hispid, separating into 2 indehiscent carpels. 



* Animal*. 



1. G. Aparine L. Diffuse, weak, climbing over herbaceous 

 plants, setulose or hispidulous-roughened ; leaves in whorls of 

 7-8, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or the upper acute, niucronate, 

 tapering to a rather narrow base, 15-45 mm. long; ilowers white 

 or whitish ; fruit thickly beset with whitish hooked hairs. 



Frequent on grassy hillsides in shady places. March-April. 



** Perennials. 



+■ Fruit dry, smooth; flowers perfect. 



2. G. trifidum subbiflorum Wiegand. Perennial with slender 

 rootstock and slender weak wholly herbaceous ascending steins, 

 4 dm. high or less, much branched and intermangled, sharply 

 4-angled, somewhat scabrous; leaves in 4's, linear-spatulate, very 

 unequal, 8-10 mm. long, obtuse, cuneate at the base, flaccid and 

 nearly smooth; pedicels capillary, equaling the leaves, nearly 

 glabrous, rarely 2-3-flowered ; corolla minute, white, its lobes 

 trifid, very obtuse; fruit glabrous. 



Occasional in shady places, mostly in the interior valleys. 



■*-•*- Fruit dry, hixpid. 



3. G. angustifolium Xutt. Suffrutescent at base, 3-8 ilm. 

 high, with rigid virgate branches, glabrous or minutely scabrous; 

 leaves narrowly linear, 1-nerved, 12-20 mm. long; dioecious; 

 cymes small, in narrow panicles, the fertile ones more or less 

 eninlensed; corolla dull white, about 3 mm. broad; bristles of the 

 fruit about the length of the body. 



Frequent on sand-dunes along the seashore, and In the toothllls, often 

 ascending t>> 1000 feel altitude. 



1. G. siccatum Wight. Somewhat auffrutescenl below, 

 branched and busby, sometimes reclining, the whole plant ciner- 

 eous-puberulent ; leaves linear, 8-16 nun. long, not rigid, barely 



