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RUBIACEiE. (madder family.) 
'• O. circa'zans, Michx. (Wild Liquorice.) Smooth or 
downy, erect or ascending; leaves in fours , oval , mostly obtuse , 3- 
nerved, ciliate; peduncles usually once forked, the branches elongated 
and widely diverging in fruit, and bearing several remote flowers on 
very short lateral pedicels, reflexed in fruit. — Rich woods. June - 
Aug. About 1° high. The var. montAnum is a dwarf, broad-leaved 
form, from mountain woods. 
8- O, laiicoolatum, Torr. (Lance-leaved Wild Liquor¬ 
ice.) Leaves in fours , lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate , tapering to the 
apex, slightly ciliate. (G. Torreyi, Bigeloic.) —Woodlands: like the 
last, which it nearly approaches; but the leaves are generally twice 
the length and narrower. 
Peduncles many-flowered, in close terminal panicles. 
^><>reale, L. (Northern Bedstraw.) Stem upright, 
smooth ; leaves in fours, linear-lanceolate , 3-nerved; panicle elongat¬ 
ed , flowers white; fruit minutely bristly, sometimes smooth. — Rocky 
banks of streams. June - Aug. — Plant 1° - 2° high. 
10. G. venim, L. (Yellow Bedstraw.) Stem upright, 
sender, leaves in eights , linear, grooved above, roughish, deflexed; 
flowers yellow , crowded ; fruit smooth. — Dry fields, introduced. Rox- 
bury, &c., Massachusetts. July. 
1 tric6rne, which has the aspect of G. Aparine, but with granu- 
atc , not bristly, fruit, on recurved peduncles, is sometimes found in 
30 ar Iey* introduced with the grain from Europe. 
Rl bia tinctoria, L., the Madder, has a berry-like fruit; the parts 
ot the flower generally 5. 
uborder II. CINCHONE/E. The Cinchona Family. 
2, BIOOIA, L. Button-weed. 
lohed ' X < 5* K)rt ’ ^“4-lobed, persistent. Corolla funnel-form, 4- 
o ^ens 4. Fruit dry, 2-celled, splitting at maturity into 
li _ < J e0US and c * osed 1-seeded carpels.—Low herbs, with 
whori I T 01316 ° PPOSite leaV6S ’ 0ften ^tered 50 as t0 a P peaf 
from diod 1 ^ stipules fringed with bristles. (Name 
sidp a Wa ^ : t ^ le s P ec * es being weeds growing by the way- 
side, and m waste places.) 8 * 
spreading • ll^,’ ? VaIt ' AnnuaI . branched from the base, diffusely 
together hi ri g ,d 1 flowers sessile and solitary or 2-3 
lobes • fruit j*’ 'T"* (whitish ) much longer than the 4 calyx- 
’ ftU,t ovo,t *'top-3haped, much shorter than the bristles of the 
