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 ASPERULA ODORATA. 



Sweet Woodruff. 



Class IV. Tetrandria. — Order I. Monogynia* 

 Nat. Ord. Rubiaceje. 



Gen. Char. Corolla funnel-shaped, four -cleft. Fruit di- 

 dymous, not crowned by the calyx. 



Spec. Char. Leaves about eight in a whorl, lanceolate. 

 Corymbs terminal, on long peduncles. 



SYNONYMES. 



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f Asperula, seu Rubeola montana odorata. Bauh. Pin. 334. 

 | Asperula. Rail Hist. 483; Syn. 224. Ger. Em. 1124. 



Asperula, aut Aspergula odorata. Park. Theatr. 563. 



Asperula odorata, flore albo. Dod. Pempt. 352. 

 Latin <( Aparine latifolia humilior montana. Tourn. Paris, 389. 



Matrisylva. Trag. 496. 



Galium bdoratum. Scop. Cam. n. 158. 



Asperula odorata. Lin. Sp. PI. 150. Eng. Fl. i. p. 196. 

 L Eng. Bot. t. 755. (Ed. Fl. Dan. t. 562. 

 French. . . . Asperule odorante ; Hepatique etoilee ; Petit muguet. 



Italian Asperula odorata. 



Spanish. . . . Asperula olorosa. 



Port Asperula odorosa. 



German. . . . Waldmeister ; Sternleberkraut. 

 Dutch Welriekend rawkruid. 



Description. — The root is perennial, creeping a little below 

 the surface of the soil, and furnished at the joints with several 

 small descending fibres. The stems are numerous, erect, simple, 

 herbaceous, smooth, tetragonal, leafy, green above, purplish 



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