ASPERA. 
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leolatis ; fol. 6-natis linearibus v. lineari-lanceolatis cuspidatis 
patentibus v. subrecurvis glabriusculis serrulatim ciliato-se- 
tulosis ; cymis axillaribus ad dichotomiam unifoliatis 2-4-0 oris 
foliis verticillorum longioribus pedicellisque 1-2-natis 1-floris 
iisdem breyioribus setuloso-subpuberulis patentibus y. reflexis ; 
fl. minutis albidis ; fr. minutis breviter nec dense (saepe spar- 
sim) uncinato-liispidulis globosis. 
Hab. in montibus Insularum Viridensium ad alt. 6000-8000 ped. 
A Cape Verde spec, of this plant exists in Herb. Mus. Paris., 
brought from Lisbon in 1808 by M. Geoffr. de St. Hilaire, and 
marked “ (Aspera) Galium Jiliforme R. et S. ? ” It is without 
fl. or fr., and was therefore probably either purposely omitted 
or overlooked by Webb in his Spicilegia Fl. Gorg. Nor is there 
any mention of the pi. in J. A. Schmidt’s Flora der Cap. Verd. 
Inseln . — G. Jiliforme R. and S. is a mere syn. of Aspera mu - 
rails (L.). 
5. Aspera Mnch. 
1. A. muralis (L.). 
Sherardia muralis Linn. Sp. 149 ; Pers. Syn. 124. Scherardia 
muralis Brot. i. 153. Aspera nutans “ Mcench. Meth. 641.” 
Callipeltis muralis Moris. Sard. ii. 309. Galium murale DC. iv. 
610; Koch 1025; WB. ii. 181; Gren. et Godr. ii. 46. Va- 
lantia jiliformis Ait. ! Hort. Kew. (ed. 1) iii. 428. Galium jili- 
forme DC. iv. 610. Asperula verticillata muralis Moris. § 9. t. 21. 
*f. 6. — Herb. ann. PS. reg. 4, r ; SD. reg. 2, r. In PS. on the 
N. side of most of the rocky peaks ; P. do Castello, in the short 
tine turf, intermixed abundantly with G. geminiflorum Lowe 
(as in the Canaries usually with G. parisiense L. a) ; SD. at 
the top. Apr. -June. — A small inconspicuous pi. of a light or 
v.-gr., not turning black in drying, otherwise of much the same 
aspect or habit as G. geminijlorum or G. parisiense , but at once 
distinguished by the curious hom-like fr. which remains strongly 
attached to the st. even when the latter are dried up. St. 
slender often filiform sparingly or irregularly branched dicho- 
tomously, 2-4 or 5 in. long, decumbent, often subcespitose, 
more or less hispid and here and there subaculeolate with de- 
flexed prickles. Lower and middle 1. 4-6-nate, uppermost 
2-3-nate, the middle more broadly the uppermost more nar- 
rowly elliptic-lanceolate, the lowest obovate and subpetiolate, 
all cuspidate or aristate, setuloso-ciliate at the margins and 
with the whole upper surface hispid or glabrescent. Pedic. 
1- 3 mostly 2, gemmate or opposite, axillary, each 1-fld., or 
2- 3-nate on an axillary dichotomous ped. often furnished at 
the fork with a single 1. or br., the whole with the fr. in either 
case very much shorter than the 1., the pedic. about half the 
length of the fr., stout and in fr. strongly deflexed. Fr. droop- 
ing linear-oblong 1-1| millim. long, not quite half as broad, 
