﻿20 RUBIACEiE. Galium. 



Styles 2, united at the base : stiirmas irlobose. Fruit diflymous, dry or 

 sometimes fleshy, separable wlien ripe into 2 mdehi^ceiil l-^eeded carpels. 

 Albumen horny.— ilerbareou^ or ^ery rarely sufiVutesc< nt plants, with tetra- 



(rarely polysamoub) small, axillary or termmal. mnln^e- or rarely solita- 

 ry ; the cymules often paniculate.— C/farm. Bed-straw. 



§ 1. Root annual.— Xparme, DC. 



