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EUBIACE^. (madder FAMILY.) 



13. Cr. Cappadocicuni, Boiss. 2^ .1 to .3, tufted, glabrous, 

 glossy, foXe-green ; root-stock woody, stems slender, intricate. Leaves 

 in sixes, oblong-elliptical to linear, .005 to .01 long, margin more or 

 less revolute. Cymes from upper axils forming a small, diffuse panicle; 

 pedicels 4-6 times as long as minute flowers ; corolla glabrous or mi- 

 nutely hirsute ; with oblong, mucronate lobes ; fruit hispid — June 

 and July — Rocks near the Bahsas, Tripoli. 



14. O. jungermaiiiiiodes, Boiss. If .05 to .2, densely tuft- 

 ed, glabrous or minutely velvety or puberulent ; stems p>f'ostrate w as- 

 cending, ca'pillary, tangled. Leaves ??€(e^/e-ZiA'^, m sixes, .003 to .005 long, 

 the lower crowded, the upper scattered. Cymes ^-S-flowered, from 

 upper and terminal axils ; pedicels filiform, 4-5 Y\Qt. 209. 

 times as long as minute flowers ; lobes of glabrous 

 corolla lanceolate ; fruit hirsute — May to Sep- 

 tember — Alpine and subalpine Lebanon and 

 Antilebanon. 



15. O. saccharatuin, All. Ped. © .1 

 to . 3, glabrous, branching from base ; branches 

 slender, decumbent, retrorsely scabrous. Leaves 

 in sixes, the lowest obovate, the others linear- 

 lanceolate, margins beset with erect prickles. 

 Cymes axillary, 3-flowered, shorter than leaves; 

 ■fiowers 'polygamous, the central fertile and lat- 

 eral staminate ; fruit globular, \ densely warty — 

 Spring — Fields ; common. 



16. O. tricorne, With. Diblaiqah. .3 to .6, 

 glabrous ; stems flaccid, procumbent, retrorsely scab- 

 rous. Leaves m sixes and eights, linear, tapering, long- 

 mucronate, margins and nerves with retrorse, hooTced 

 prickles. Cymes axillary, 3-flowered, shorter than 

 leaves ; flowers perfect ; fruit twin, mericarps some- 

 times .006 Iroad, minutely tiibercled^ — Spring — Fields ; 

 common everywhere. 



Yar. verruculosuui, Post. Fruits minutely 

 warty — Qal'at-Musyaf (Nusairy Mountains). 



17. €r. verticillatiini, Danth. .1 to .15, glabrous or 

 "slightly scabrous ; stems erect, filiform, rather stiff. LesiTes iji foui's and 

 sixes, linear-oblong, at length reflexed. Peduncles axillary, 2-5, each 1- 

 flowered, verticillate, erect in fruit ; fruit ovate, short-hispid ulous, or 

 glabrous ; mericarps oblong — Spring — El- Jebel-el-Abiacl, between 

 Hamath and Palmyra. 



Fig. 211. 



18. O. Aparine, L. Cleavers. Goose-Grass. 

 I)iN)aiqah. .5 to 1 ; stems somewhat swollen at joints. 

 Leaves oUanceolate-linear, .03 to .06 lo7ig. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, longer than leaves ; flowers perfect ; fruiting pedi- 

 cels divaricate, straight ; fi^uit .005 broad, beset with 

 hooTced pincTcles — Spring — Fields and hedges ; common 

 throughout. 



Leaves and fruit of G. 

 saccharatum. 



Fig. 210. 



Fmit 

 of G. 

 tricorne. 



