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[Sympkoricarp'os racemosus (Michx.), a North American shrub, with 

 roundish entire or sinuate-lobed 1., fl. in small terminal and axillary 

 racemes, the cor. bellshaped pink bearded within and with large opaque 

 greenish-white 4-celled 2-seeded berries, is often planted in hedges. 

 i$nowberry.~\ 



5. LINKS:' A Linn. 



1. L. boredlis (L.).JE. B. 433. St. trailing- and creeping. 

 L. opposite, broadly ovate, stalked, dark green above, paler 

 beneath. Peduncles long, erect, 2-flowered, from short lateral 

 branches with 2 4 leaves. Fl. drooping, flesh-coloured, purple 

 within. Woods, chiefly of fir, in the North. P. VII. E. S. 



Order XLII. EUBIACE^E. 



Cal. superior, entire or lobed. Cor. regular, 4 6-lobed. 

 Stam. 4 o, alternate with the lobes of the corolla. Ovary 1, 

 2-celled, with solitary erect ovules. Style 1, often bifid. Stig- 

 mas 2. Fr. a didymous indehiscent pericarp. Embryo straight 

 in horny albumen. St. herbaceous, square. Many raphides. 



1. SHEBAEDIA. Cor. funnelshaped. Fr. crowned with the 

 deeply (5-toothed calyx, dry. Fl. umbellate, involucrate. 



2. ASPERULA. Cor. funnelshaped. Fr. dry. Limb of the 

 calyx inconspicuous. 



3. GALIUM. Cor. rotate, 4-fid. Fr. dry. Limb of cal. in- 

 conspicuous. 



4. KUBIA. Cor. rotate, 5- (or rarely 4-)fid. Fr. succulent, 

 2-lobed. Limb of cal. inconspicuous. 



1. SHERAR'DIA Linn. Field-Madder. 



1. S. arven'sis (L.).JE. B. 891. St. mostly decumbent, 

 branched, leafy. L. 6 in a whorl, obovate-lanceolate, acute. 

 Fl. lilac, in a small sessile terminal umbel with 7 8 inv. -leaves. 

 Cal.-segm. 4, 2 bifid. [. cal.-teeth lanceolate aciculate accrescent ; 

 Q. mutica (Wirtg.) cal.-teeth triangular not aciculate not accrescent.] 

 -Fields. A.V.-VII. E.S.I. 



2. ASPER'ULA Linn. 



1. A. cynan'chica (L.) ; /. 4 in a whorl linear, upper pair 

 much smaller, ti. corymbose, bracts lanceolate mucronate, cor. 

 rough. E. B. 33. Root fusiform. Stems many, diffuse or 

 ascending, branched. Lowest 1. obovatej interm. obovate- 

 lanceolate ; uppermost lanceolate-attenuate. Fl. generally lilac. 



