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WEEDS AXD USEFUL PLANTS. 



rotate, 4 - 5-parted. Stamem short Styles 2, united at base. Frmt 

 didymous, subglobase, baccate, smootji. Herbaceous or suffruticose^ 

 Stems 4-aDgled, diffoselv branching. 



I.E. Tixcto'eibi, L, Stem herbaceous, flaccid, aculeate on the angles ; 

 leaves mostly in apparent verticils of six, lanceolate, snb-petiolate ; pe- 

 duncles axiUary, trichotomons : lobes of the corolla with a callous acu- 

 mination, but not cuspidate. 

 Dtees' Eubia. Madder. Dyers' Madder. 

 Fi: La Garance. Germ. Die Faerber-Eoethe. Span. Eubia. 



Root perennial, large, reddisli 'broTm. Stems procnm'bent, 3-4 feet long, nmcli brancied, 

 pubescent at the joints ; angles prominent, sometimes more than 4, aculeate witli short 

 retrorsely curved prickles. Leaves and stipides similar, 1-2 inches long — the midrfb and 

 margins retrorsely aculeate— ^sicer-fceari??^ branches axiilary, opposite. CoroUa hrownish 

 yellow, often 5-lohed. 



Gardens and lots : cultivated. Jvatixe of the East. Fl. July. Fr. Septemoer. 



Fig. 114. The Madder Plant (Eubia tinctormn) reduced. 



