24. EUBIACEJ^:. 



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site, odd-pinnate. with 5 - 7 

 leaflets on short petiohiles, 

 oval-acnniinate, regularly tooth- 

 ed : flowers white, scented, in 

 a large flat corymb, with 5 

 principal bi"anches ; calyx with 

 5 small teeth ; corolla wheel- 

 shaped, with 5 spreading 

 lobes ; stigmas 3, sessile ; berry 

 black when ripe. 



Subspontaneous in Mount 

 Lofty Range.— Fl. Oct., fr. 

 Jan. — Central and southern 

 Europe. 



Family 24. -RUBIACE>E. 



Corolla funnelshapcd ; 



fruit crowned by the 



6 persistant calyx-teeth Sherardia 

 Corolla wheelshaped ; 



fruit naked at summit Galium 2 



Sambucus nigrra. 



1. Sher.\rdia, L. 



(After Wm. Sherard, an Eng- 

 lish l)otanist.) 

 1. Sherardia arvensis, 



L. Field Madder. Small annual, 

 with slender procumbent stems, 

 rough-hairy on the 4 angles; 

 leaves usually in whorls of 6, 

 often of 4 near the base of the 

 stems, lower ones obovai, upper 

 lanceolate; floAvers lilac, in little 

 terminal heads surrounded and 

 exceeded by an involucre of 8 

 floral leaves united at base ; 

 corolla with a long tube and 4 

 spreading lobes; stamens 4, pro- 

 truding ; fruit oblong, rough, 

 formed of 2 united carpels, each 

 croAvned by 3 of the enlarged 



calyx-teeth. 

 Sherardia arvensis. r> i • i , ix • i. j 



Jtoadsides, pasture, cultivated 



land. — Sept. -Dec. — Europe; western Asia. 



2. 'G.\LiuM, L. 



Calyx-limb none; corolla with scarcely any tube and 4 

 spreading lobes; stamens 4; fruit of 2 united carpels without 

 any crown. 



Stems stout ; carpels globular G. triconie 1 



Stems slender; carpels linear-oblong G. niuialc 2 



