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Dry, stony places in the southern hills and mountains. July, 

 August. 



Distribution. Alps of Dauphiny, Savoie, and all Provence, 

 Southern France, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy, Tyrol, Balearic Isles. 



Galium purpureum L. 



Rootstock almost woody, with erect stems, 8-18 inches high, 

 much branched, finely pubescent, with short internodes. Leaves in 

 whorls of 8-10, linear, green, with one dorsal vein, finely ciliate. 

 Flowers very small, dark, blood-red. Lobes of corolla oval-acum- 

 inate. Fruit glabrous, rugose, becoming black. 



Stony hills and dry places in the southern mountains. June to 

 August. 



Distribution. S.E. France from the Var to Basses-Alpes, 

 Maritime Alps, Southern Tessin (not elsewhere in Switzerland), 

 Southern Europe, eastward to Turkey. 



ASPERULA L. 



Differs little from Galium except in the shape of the corolla, 

 which is funnel- or bell-shaped, with a long tube, often several times 

 as long as the lobes. 



Asperula odorata L. Woodruff. 



A small fragrant plant, 6-10 inches high, with creeping rootstock. 

 Leaves 6-8, in a whorl, lanceolate, acuminate, rough at the edges, 

 Flowers small, white, in a loose tricotomous cyme. Fruit hispid, 

 globular. 



Woods and shady places in the plains and mountains. May. 



Distribution. Europe and Siberia, except the extreme north. 

 British. 



Asperula taurina L. 



A rather taller plant, with erect, simple stem, branched at the 

 top. Leaves 4, in a whorl, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, 

 with silky hairs. Flowers white, crowded, subtended by ciliate 

 bracts. Fruit glabrous. 



Mountain woods. May, June. 



Distribution. Central and Southern Europe, including Switzer- 

 land, Jura, Dauphiny, etc., Western Asia as far as Persia. 



Asperula cynanchica L. Squinancy-wort. 



Barren stems, more or less prostrate, the others ascending about 

 6 inches. Leaves narrow-linear, the lower ones 4 in a whorl, the 

 upper ones often in pairs. Flowers pinkish white, or occasionally 

 white, small, funnel-shaped. Fruit small, tubercular or granulated. 

 A most variable plant, with several Alpine varieties, one of which is 



