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SHEItA'RDIA. 
Linnean Class and Order. Tetra'.ndri a f, Monogy'nia. 
Natural Order. Stella'ta:*, Linn. — Lindl. Syn. p. 128. ; Inlr. 
to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p. 202 . — Rubia'cea;, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 196. — 
Sm. Gram, of Bot. p. 126. — Engl. FI. v. i. p. 196. — Rich, by 
Macgilliv. p. 459. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 519. — Don’s Gen. Syst. of 
Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p.453. — Mack. FI. Hibern. p. 129. — Syrin- 
gai.es; subord. Asterosa: ; sect. Rubiacin.b; type, Rubia- 
ce.e; Burn. Outl. of Bot. v. ii. pp. 900, 901, 902, & 914. 
Gen. Char. Calyx (see fig. 1, a.) small, superior, of 1 sepal, 
with 4 or 6 segments or teeth, permanent. Corolla (see fig. 1, b.) 
of 1 petal, funnel-shaped; tube cylindrical; limb in 4, equal, flat, 
acute segments. Filaments (see fig. 1.) 4, from the mouth of the 
tube, recurved. Anthers roundish, 2-lobed. German (see fig. 1.) 
inferior, of 2 round or oblong lobes. Style (fig. 2.) hair-like, 
2-lobed at the apex. Stigmas bluntish or capitate. Fruit (fig. 3.) 
dry, crowned with the permanent teeth of the calyx, divisible into 
2 1-seeded portions (mericarps, Don), flat on one side, convex on 
the other (see figs. 3, 4, & 5). 
The funnel-shaped, 4-cleft corolla ; and the dry fruit, crowned 
with the permanent calyx ; will distinguish this from other genera 
in the same class and order. 
One species British. 
SHERA'RDIA ARVE'NSIS. Field Sherardia. Little Field- 
madder. Little Spur-wort. 
Spec. Char. Leaves about 6 in a whorl. Flowers terminal, 
sessde, umbellate. 
Engl. Bot. t. 891. — Curt. FI. Lond. t. 315. Curt. Brit. Entom: v. ix. t. 388. — 
Linn. Sp. PI. p. 149. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed. ) p. 66. — Willd. Sp. l’l. v. i.» pt. I. 
p. 574. — Sm."Fl. Brit. v. i. p. 171. ; Engl. FI. v. i. p. 196. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. 
p. 219. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 480. — Lindl. Syn. p. 130. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 
66. — Lightf. FI. Scot. v. i. p. 114. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. p 57. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 
32. — Davies’ Welsh Bot. p. 15. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 99. — Relh.’Fl. Cant. (3rd 
edit.) p. 57. — Hook. FI. Scot. p. 50.— Grev. FI. Edin. p. 34. — FI. Devon, pp. 26 
and 162. — Johnst. FI. of Berw. v. i. p. 36. — Winch’s FI. of Northumb. and Durli. 
p. 9. — Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p. 36. — Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p. 
637. — Jacob’s West Devon and Cornw. FI. — Bab. FI. Bath. p. 24.— Mack. Catal. of 
PI. of Irel. p. 17. ; FI. Hibern. p. 132. — Rubeola arvensis repens car idea, Ray’s 
Syn. p. 225. 
Localities. — In fallow-fields, and among corn, on a light, sandy, or gravelly 
soil ; frequent. 
Annual. — Flowers from May to August. 
Root small, tough and fibrous, of a reddish-brown colour. Stems 
several, slender, branched, spreading, mostly decumbent, from 3 to 
Fig. 1. A separate Flower; a. the Calyx; b. the Corolla. — Fig. 2. Style and 
Stigmas. — Fig. 3. Half the Fruit. — Fig- 4. A Fruit cut transversely. — Fig. 5. One 
half of the same . — All a little magnified. 
f See folio 46, note y. 
J See folio 135. a. 
