36 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Asperula. 



ments. Root leaves egg-shaped, or lyrate, notched ; 

 the rest wing-cleft, linear. E. B. 1311. S. minor, 

 sive columbaria. G. E. 719. 



Pastures, waste ground. Bullingdon Green. Sb. Abundant on 

 sandy banks between Stow Wood, and Beckley, &c. Bx. 



Per. June. 



Smaller, more slender than S. arvensis : twelve to eighteen inches. 

 Stem erect, round, leafy. Ls. stalks of lowermost /*. longish, 

 remaining Is. stalkless ; the segments entire. Fl. terminal, 

 stalks long, naked. Fl. light purple, marginal _^. large, radiant, 

 much larger than the inner. Stem /*. very narrow. Discrim. 

 Cor. five cleft. 



SHERA^RDIA.' Sherardia, or Field-madder. 



S. arvensis. Blue 81i. Little F.-m. All the leaves 

 whorled. Flowers terminal. E. B. 891. C. 5. 13. 



Fallow fields, or among corn. 



An. Jime. 



Plant small, slender ; habit of a Galium. Stems several, branched, 

 spreading in every direction. Ls. elliptic, or inversely egg- 

 shaped, pointed, entire. Fl. Is. inclosing three or fovxr blossoms. 

 Fl. purplish-blue, tube slender, tapering to the base. Cal. of 

 two, three -clefted, permanent leaves. Fruit two dry seeds. 



ASPE'RUL A. " Woodruff. 5 



A. odordta. Sweet W. Leaves about eight in a whorl, 

 spear-shaped. Panicles stalked, of few flowers. E. B. 

 755. C. 4. 15. Asperula. G. E. 1124. 



Dry woods. 



Per. May. 



Stem upright, simple, leafy, about a span high. Ls. bright green, 

 rough only at the margin. Panicle forked, terminal ; stalks 

 longish. Fl. snowy white, sometimes fragrant. Fruit rough, 

 with ascending bristles. The dry, or drying herb exhales a 

 pleasant, and lasting fragrance, resembhng new hay. To drive 

 away ticks ; to give a grateful flavour to wine. The Ls. infused 

 an aromatic tea. 



A. cyndnchica. Small W. Squiriancy-wort.^ Leaves 



' Named after Dr. William Sherard, founder of a Botanical Professorship 

 at Oxford, and reputed author of Schola Botanica. Died 1728. 

 2 Asper, Lat. rough. ^ From the position of leaves, like a ruff. 



* From its supposed efficacy in quinsy. 



