386 RUBiACE^. (madder family.) 



13. O. Cappadocicum, Boiss. If .1 to .2, tufted, glabrous, 



glossy, 2)ale-g)'ee7i ; root-stock woody, stems slender, intricate. Leaves 

 m 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, mucrouate lobes; fruit hispid — June 

 and July — Rocks near the Bahsas, Tripoli. 



14. O. juiigerniaiiniodes, Boiss. % .05 to .2, densely tuft- 

 ed, glabrous or minutely velvety or puberulent ; stems 'prostrate or as- 

 cending, capillary, tangled. Le?ives needle-like, m sixes, .003 to .005 long, 

 the lower crowded, the upper scattered. Cymes 2-3-flowered, from 

 upper and terminal axils ; pedicels filiform, 4-5 -pia, 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. saccliaratum, All. Fed. © .1 

 to .3, glabrous, branching from base ; branches 

 slender, decumbent, retrorsely scabrous. ].,eaves 

 in sixes, the lowest obovate, the others linear- 

 lanceolate, margins beset with erect prickles. 

 Cymes axillary, 3-flowered, shorter than leaves; 

 flowers polygamous, the central fertile and lat- 

 eral staminate ; fruit globular, {densely warty — 



Fields ; common. 



Leaves and fruit of G. 

 saccharatum. 



Spring 



16. €r. tricorne, With. DiblaiqaTi. .3 to .6, yig. 210. 

 glabrous ; stems flaccid, procumbent, retrorsely scab- 

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

 mucronate, margins and nerves with retrorse, hooJced 

 prickles. Cymes axillary, 3-flowered, shorter than 

 leaves ; flowers 'perfect ; fruit twin, merica.rps some- 

 times .006 h'oad, minutely tulercled — Spring — Fields ; 

 common everywhere. 



Var. Terruculo§uiii, Post. Fruits minutely 

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



17. Cr. verticillatuiii, Danth. © .1 to .15, glabrous or 

 slightly scabrous ; stems erect, filiform, rather stiff. Le^Yesin fours and 

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

 ^owered, 7)erticillate, erect in fruit ; irnit ovate, short-hispidulous, or 

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

 Hamath and Palmyra. 



Fruit 

 of G. 

 tricorne. 



Fig. 211. 



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

 JDibbaiqah. .5 to 1 ; stems somewhat swollen at joints. 

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

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

 cels divaricate, straight ; fruit .005 broad, beset with 

 liooTced 2JricMes — Spring — Fields and hedges ; common 

 throughout. 



