TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 19 



§2. Fruit hisjnd. 

 e. APARiNB. Ph. Stems flaccid, retro-scabrous; leaves long, linear-oblanceolate, mucrontite, mostly in 3"«. 

 |-/-„/g.o_Common Cleavers, or Clivers. Goose-grass. Catch-weed. Robin-run-the-Hedse. 

 Fl. Middle of May, and after. Fr. mat. Latter end of July. 



Hub. Fence-rows, and ricli, shaded places; often extending 6 or 8 feet: flowers white. 

 G. PILOSXJM. Ell. Stem roughish, erect, or assurgent; leaves in 4's, oval, ciliate; peduncles dichotomous. 

 Synon. G. puncticulosum. IMx? 



Fl- Latter end of June, and after. Fr. 'mat. Last of August. 



Hub- Dry, iterile banks, among bushes, &c. R. Strode's: li to 2 feet high; flowers reddish brown. 



G- LAVCEOLATCJM. Tor. secuncl. Scliiv. Stem erect, smooth; leaves in fours, ovate-lanceolate. 



Fl- Last of June, and after. Fr. mat. Middle of September. 



Hab. Woodlands: Patton's; frequent. 12 to 18 inches high; flowers brownish purple, sometimes whitish. 



Obs. This approaches near to G. triflorum, of Mx. The leaves are finely ciliate a.t margin; but are pretty 

 constantly in fours, and not mucronate. The whole plant smoothish and erect; the flowar-branches mostly 

 terminal, long, and divaricate. 



G. cu.^piDATUM. Ell. Stem flaccid, smoothish; leaves in 6's, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; peduncles trifid. 



Fl. Middle of July, and after. Fr. mat. Last of September. 



Hub. Woodlands, and moist, shaded grounds: Bath; Bramlywine; frequent: flowers white. 



G. BRACHiATUM. Ph. Stem roughish; leaves in 6's, lanceolate, acuminate; margins & ribs bristly-ciliate. 



FL Latter end of July. Fr. mat. Last of September. 



Mab. Woods, and meadows: Joseph Taylor's meadow, &c. frequent: flowers yellowish, or dirty white. 



Obs. This approaches the foregoing; butis» perhaps, sufficiently distinct. 

 G. ciRCJEZANS. Mr. Stem erect, smooth; leaves in fours, ovate; peduncles divaricate; fruit nodding. 

 Syyion. G. brachiatum. Miihl. not of Pursh. 



Fl. Latter end of June. Fr. mat. Last of August. 



Hab. Woodlands: Bath; Patton's, &c. frequent- 12 to 18 incises high: flowers purplish. 



Obs. This species may be readily known by the fact, (first mentioned to me by Dr. Baldwin,) that th« 

 leaves, when chewed, are remarkably swee^— resembling the taste of liquorice root 



62. SPERMACOCE., Nutt. Gen. 133. 

 [Gr. Sperma, seed, and Akoke, a sharp point; the fruit being beaked, or pointed.] 

 Cal. 4 toothed, Cor. funnel-form, 4 cleft. Capsules 2, connate, each 2 horned. 

 S. movisA. Ell. Hirsute; leave* liaear-laiiceolate; stipules long-brist!ed, flowers opposite, axillary, sessile, 

 Vulgo — Button weed. 

 . Fl. Middle of August, and after. Fr. mat. Latter end of September. 



Hab. Dry, sandy banks: roadside, from Strode's mill to Brandy wine. 4 to 12 inches high: branching. 



Obs. This plant is very abundant along the Street-road, towards Londongrove; but rather scarce in thiit 

 immediate vicinity, except along the road from Strode's Mill to Wistar's Badge, where U is plentiful 1 he 

 flowers, with us, are uniformly pale red; and not u^'kite, as Pursh has it. I h-ivc little doubt but it is the «. 

 injsiojii folia, of Rees' Cyclopaedia; as the Editor of that work seems inclined to suspect. 



63. HOUSTONIA. Nutt. Gen. 136. 



[In honor of Dr. JVilliam Hbrufotm; an English Botanist.] 

 Cal. 4 toothed. Cor. funnel-form, 4 cleft. Caps. 2 celled, half superior, opening transversely. 

 H. ciERULEA. Ph. Stem erect, setaceous, dichotomous; radical leaves spaUiuIats; peduncles long, 1 flowered- 

 Fa/go— Dwarf Pink. Bluets- Innocence. 



Fl. Middle of April, till autumn. Fr. mat. Middle of June, and after. 



Hab. Meadows, thia woods, and old fields: common. 2 to 4 inches high: flowers blue; sometimes white. 



64. I^^TCHELLA. Nutt. Gen. 138. 



[In honor of Dr. John Mitchell; a Botanist of Virginia.] 

 Cal. 4 toothed. Cor. in pairs on the same germ, funnel-form, 4 parted. Berry twin, 4 seeded. 

 M. REPEXS. Ell. Stem prostrate; leaves opposite, peliolate, cordate-ovate; peduncles axillary, solitary. 

 j^jj/go—Pai-tridge-berry. Tutkey-berry. Chequer-berry. Ground Ivy. 

 Fl. Middle of June. Fr. mat. Last of September 



Hab. Moist woodlands: Patton's and Matlack's woods, abundant- 6 to 12 inches long: flowers ^ hit.. 



Obs. This beautiful little evergreen often retains its red berries t^ntil the fl«\^,^;,%«f ']'f„ff^f,^f;|,rii 

 hare appeared. It thrives well when removed with a sod; ajid makes a luiudsome covenn& lor tlie earifl, i« 

 pots, or bo:iieSj coataining green-house shrubbery- 



