230 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



acuminate, sub-glabrous, with a few scattered hairs on the surface 

 and more numerous ones on the veins, ciliated on the margins. 

 Flowers polygamous, in a terminal head, with an involucre of about 

 8 leaf-like longly-ciliated bracts, in two rows, those of the outer 

 row longer, and usually exceeding the flowers, those of the inner 

 row bristly. Corolla tubular-funnelshaped ; tube more than twice 

 as long as the limb. Fruit glabrous, rough with small points. 



In woods, pastures, and by roadsides, but only where planted or 

 escaped from cultivation. About Cadeby and Market Bos worth, 

 Leicestershire ; in Westmoreland ; near E-oslin, Ebinburgh, and 

 about Perth. 



[England, Scotland.] Perennial. Spring and early Summer. 



Rootstock slender, extensively creeping. Stems 6 inches to 

 2 feet high, the whorls of leaves few and very distant, the largest 

 leaves in the middle of the stem, IJ to 2 inches long. Flowers 

 white tinged with pale flesh-colour, scarcely ^ inch across ; corolla- 

 tube I inch long, very slender. Anthers very slender, on long fila- 

 ments. Leaves of the involucre similar to those of the stem, but 

 much smaller, ciliated, particularly those of the inner whorl, which 

 are smaller and narrower than those of the outer. The mature fruit 

 I have not seen. 



JBink Woodruff. 



French, Asperule h trois Nervn/res. 



A translation of the specific name of this plant would make it Bull Woodruff^ 

 which name it sometimes bears. 



SPECIES IV— ASPERULA ARVENSIS. Linn. 



Plate DCLXII. {Us). 



Reich. Tc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXXVII. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 790. 



Annual. Stem somewhat dichotomously branched, ascending, 

 glabrous or slightly hispid. Leaves 6 to 8 in a whorl, all those in 

 a whorl nearly equal in size, linear-strapshaped, generally obtuse, 

 subglabrous, ciliated on the margins. Flowers blue, in terminal 

 heads, surrounded by an involucre of numerous longly-ciliated leaf- 

 like bracts in 2 or 3 rows, those of the outer row much longer than 

 the flowers, those of the inner row bristly-ciliated. Corolla shortly 

 tubular-funnelshaped ; tube as long as the limb. Fruit glabrous, 

 smooth. 



Cultivated ground and waste places. Apparently not persistent 

 in its localities. Has occurred near Davenport, and in Herts and 



