RUBIA.CK^. (madder FAMILY.) 



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19. Cr. §pui*iuiii, L. 



.4 to .5, not swollen at joints. 

 Leaves in sixes and eights, U- 

 near-oManceolate, .02 to .04 

 long. Peduncles axillary, lon- 

 ger than leaves ; flowers per- 

 fect ; fruiting pedicels divari- 

 cate, straight ; fruit small, .003 

 bioad, glabrous or hispid — 

 Spring — Fields ; common. 



Var. Vaillautii, Gr. et 

 Godr. Fruit hispid — Moab, 

 Gilead. Aleppo, Aintab, and 

 northward. 



Gr 



Fig. 312. 



Var. tenerum, 

 oblong- spathulate to obovate 



et 



Leaves and fruit of G. spurium, 



Godr. Leaves, especially the lowest. 

 Fruit glabrous or hispid — Sinai. 



20. Cr. pi$ifer»m, Boiss. .5 to 1, swollen at joints. Leaves 

 in sixes and sevens, lower obovate-spathulate, middle and upper ^ oblan- 

 ceolate, mucronate, or tapering-aristate, .03 to. 05 long, all tapering to a 

 petiole. Panicle leafy, rather com fact, composed of dichotomously several 

 times subdivided branches ; meTica.vps M4: to .008 broad, strigillose or 

 glabrescent, one often abortive ; pericarp white, separating from seed 

 — Spring — Rocky and waste places ; coast and coast range ; Coelesyria. 



21. O, aclliaereiis, Boiss. et Fig. 213. 

 Bal. .3 to 1, sparingly hirsute or 

 aculeolate. Leaves in ei^y^is to twelves, 

 lowest elliptical to spathulate, 

 the others linear-lanceolate to linear, 

 tapering, mucronate. Peduncles 

 from upper and terminal axils elon- 

 gated, horizontal, many times bi-tri- 

 chotomous, forming a diffuse, loose, 

 scmewhat nalced ponicle ; fruit .003 

 \iTO'd.(\., minutely granular, nearly as Flowers and leaves of G. adhaerens. 



long as pedicel — May and June — Hedges ; Lebanon, to Marash, and 

 northward. 



22. O. peplidlfolium, Boiss. .1 to 

 glabrous or soft-jjuberulent ; stems sim- 



FiG. 214. 



pie or branching from neck, 3-3-tomously corym- 

 bose above. Leaves 'in fours or fives, unequal, ten- 

 der or somewhat scabrous, lowest ovate, somewhat 

 petioled, the others elliptical or elliptical-linear, 

 .01 to .015 long. Peduncles trichotomous, fili- 

 form, rigid, pedicels 3-4 times as long as glabrous, 

 .0015 h^oad fruit — April to June — Shady places ; 

 subalpine Lebanon. 



23. O. divaricatum, Lam. .3 to .4, 

 glabrous ; stems slender, 4-augled, erect, diffuse- Leaves and fruits of 

 ly paniculate from base. Le2iYes in fours to sevens, G. pepiidifoiium. 

 linear-lanceolate, mucronate, with aculeolate margins, at length re- 

 flexed. Cymes 2-4-floweied, with long, setaceous peduncles ; pedicels 



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