RUBIACE^. (madder FAMILT.) 



387 



Fig. 312. 



Leaves and fruit of G. spurium, 



Godr. Leaves, especially the lowest, 

 Fruit glabrous or hispid — Sinai. 



19. O. spurium, L. 



.4 to .5, not swollen at joints. 

 Leaves in sixes and eights, li- 

 near-oblanceolate, .02 to .04 

 long. Peduncles axillary, lon- 

 ger than leaves ; flowers per- 

 fect ; fruiting pedicels divari- 

 cate, straight ; fruit smal/, . 002 

 bi'oad, glabrous or hispid — 

 Spring — Fields ; common. 



Var. Yaillautii, Gr. et 



Godr. Fruit hispid — Moab, 

 Gilead, Aleppo, Aintab, and 

 northward. 



Var. tenerum, Gr. et 



oblong-spathulate to obovate. 



20. iM, pisiferum, Boiss. .5 to 1, swollen at joints. Leaves 

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

 ceolate, mucronate, or tapering-aristate, .02 to. 05 long, all tapering to a 

 petiole. Panicle leafy, rather compact, composed of dichotomously several 

 times suMivided branches ; mencsiYps .004: to .008 broad, strigillose or 

 glahrescent, one of ten abortive; pericarp white, separating from seed 

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



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

 Bal. .3 to 1, sparingly hirsute or 

 aculeolate. heayesm eights 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 naked ponicle ; fruit . 002 

 hro?id, minutehj granular, nearly as Flowers and leaves of G. adhaerens. 

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

 northward. 



22. O. peplidifolium, Boiss. .1 to Fig. 214. 

 .25, green, glabrous or soft-puherulent ; stems sim- 

 ple or branching from neck, 2-3-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 2-4 times as long as glabrous, 

 .0015 kroad fruit — April to June — Shady places ; 

 subalpine Lebanon. 



23. €r. divaricatum, Lam. .3 to .4, 



glabrous ; stems slender, 4-angled, erect, diffuse- 

 ly paniculate from base. IjeaYesi7i fours to sevens, 

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

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



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Leaves and fruits of 

 G. peplidifolium. 



