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RUBIACE/E 



brittle species ; lenves about 6 in a whoiT, narrow, mucronate, with 

 foi-ward-[)ointinij; bristles on the margins and recurved ones on 

 the .?/c;;;,t; cyiius small, bifurcating, few-flowered ; //ozc^n- greenish ; 

 fruit minute, tubercled — Old walls and dry places in the south- 

 east ; rare. — Fl. June, July. Annual. 



ir. G. Apcirbie (Goose-grass, Cleavers). — Light green, strag- 

 gling, 5 — 4 feet long; sie)n and leaves very rough with recurved 

 prickles ; leaves 6 — 8 in a wliorl ; flowers 2 — 3 together, white, 



axillary ; fruit covered 



with short hooked 

 prickles. — Hedges ; 

 very common. The 

 stems, leaves, and bur- 

 like fruits cling to the 

 coat ol an\' anunal 

 that touches them ; 

 whence is deri\cd the 

 popular name of 

 ("lea\ers or '.livers. 

 The plant is greedily 

 devoured by geese, — 

 Fl. June — • ^\ugust. 

 Annual. 



12. G. ]'(lllldlltli, 



differing chiefly in 

 having its Ilowers very 

 minute, greenish and 

 3 — 9 together, occurs 

 only in fields near 

 Saffron ^Valden, Essex. 

 — Fl. July. Annual. 



13. G. t r I e r 11 e 

 (Rough - fruited Corn 

 Bedstraw). — Kesem 

 bling G. Apariin', hut 

 smaller and chieily 

 lias a uranulated, not 



A'^PtiRUL-.V CPDOK.ix.'V (Sir-'i't/ tW'oJ ru /J). 



distinguished by its kirgc fruit, whic 



bristly, surface, and is borne on a recurved pedieel. — Dry chalky 



fields; not uncommon. — Fl. June — October, Annual. 



3. AsrKkULA (Woodruff). — Herbs differing front (Ai7/;/j» mainly 

 in the longer tube which makes the small rurallii bell sh,',ped 

 or funnel-shaped. It may be white, piijk, or blue. (Name, a 

 diminutive from the Latin asper, rough, from the roughness of 

 the leaves of some species.) 



