ASPERULA. 



ASPERULA. 



Limb very short, 4-toothed, deciduous, or obsolete. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, rarely campanulate, 4-cleft, rarely 3-cleft. Styles 

 2, joined at the base, and sometimes nearly to the apex. Fruit 

 didymous, not crowned with the calyx, almost dry. 



900. A. odorata Linn. sp. 150. Eng.Bot. t. 755. Smith Eng. 

 Fl. i. 197. In woods throughout Europe. (Woodroof.) 



Root creeping. Stems simple, annual, a span high, angular, smooth, 

 leafy. Leaves 7-9 in each whorl, usually 8, bright green, spreading, 

 about an inch long, rough at the edges only. Panicles generally 3 

 together, on longish stalks, forked, not much subdivided. Flowers 

 pure white, with a short tube ; fragrant chiefly at night. Fruit rough, 

 with ascending bristles. The herb while drying has the scent of new 

 hay, approaching to bitter almonds, or Heliotropium peruvianum, of 

 which it retains a portion some time. Smith. It passes for a diuretic. 



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