. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 266 RUBIACEAE. Vol. 24. Galium bermudense L. Coast Bed- straw. Fig. 3951. Galium bermudense L. Sp. PI. 105. 1753. Galium hispidulum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 79. 1803. Relbunium bermudense Britten, Journ. Bot. 47: 42. 1909. Perennial, much branched, hirsute, hispid or nearly glabrous, i°-2° high. Leaves in 4's, i-nerved, oval, mucronate, rather thick, 3"
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 266 RUBIACEAE. Vol. 24. Galium bermudense L. Coast Bed- straw. Fig. 3951. Galium bermudense L. Sp. PI. 105. 1753. Galium hispidulum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 79. 1803. Relbunium bermudense Britten, Journ. Bot. 47: 42. 1909. Perennial, much branched, hirsute, hispid or nearly glabrous, i°-2° high. Leaves in 4's, i-nerved, oval, mucronate, rather thick, 3"-io" long, ii"-4" wide, the margins more or less revolute in drying; flowers few, terminating the branchlets, white; pedicels 3"-4," long, rather stout, becoming deflexed in fruit, some- times i-bracteolate; fruit fleshy, purplish, mi- nutely pubescent, becoming glabrate, about 2" broad. In dry or sandy soil, southern New Jersey to Florida and Georgia. Bermuda; Bahamas. May- Aug. 8. SHERARDIA [Dill.] L. Sp. PI. 102. 1753. Slender annual procumbent or diffuse herbs, with verticillate spiny-pointed leaves, and small nearly sessile pink or blue flowers, in terminal and axillary involucrate heads. Calyx- tube obovoid, its limb 4-6-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, persistent. Corolla funnelform, 4-5-lobed, the tube as long as the lobes or longer. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla; filaments slender; anthers small, oblong, exserted. Ovary 2-celled; style 2-cleft at the sum- mit ; ovules 1 in each cavity. Fruit didymous, the carpels indehiscent. Seed erect. [Named for Dr. William Sherard, 1659-1728, patron of Dillenius.] A monotypic genus of the Old World. i. Sherardia arvensis L. Blue Field Madder. Herb Sherard. Spurwort. Fig- 3952. Sherardia arvensis L. Sp. PI. 102. 1753. Tufted, roughish, stems numerous, prostrate, ascending, or decumbent, 3-10' long. Leaves in 4's, 5's or 6's, the upper linear or lanceolate, acute and sharp-pointed, r
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