. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. MADDER FAMILY ASPERULA. CROSSWORT Asperiila. Asperula, roughish, referring to the leaves. Stem.—Square, low but erect. Leaves and leaf-like stipules form a regular whorl at the joint of the stem, in eights, sixes, or fours. Flowers.—Tuhula,r, four-parted, honey-bearing, grouped in cymes. Calyx.—Four-toothed. Coro/te.—Bell-shaped or funnel-formed; border four-lobed. Stamens.—Four; styles two, somewhat united. The Asperulas are a group of herbs of low stature and delicat
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. MADDER FAMILY ASPERULA. CROSSWORT Asperiila. Asperula, roughish, referring to the leaves. Stem.—Square, low but erect. Leaves and leaf-like stipules form a regular whorl at the joint of the stem, in eights, sixes, or fours. Flowers.—Tuhula,r, four-parted, honey-bearing, grouped in cymes. Calyx.—Four-toothed. Coro/te.—Bell-shaped or funnel-formed; border four-lobed. Stamens.—Four; styles two, somewhat united. The Asperulas are a group of herbs of low stature and delicate foliage, useful for borders and rockeries in shaded places, but no better than many of our native plants. They bloom from May to July. The white-flowered, perennial species, odor&ta, called Sweet Woodruff, has long been used in Europe as a sweet herb. The dried leaves arid flowers have the odor of new-mown hay, a fragrance that lasts for years, so that the plant is packed among clean linen to impart its odor to the clothes. The Germans call it Waldmeister and use it in the concoction of their May wine and summer drinks. Asperula orienMis is a blue-flowered annual species from Caucasus, whence it was brought into England in 1867. It is a branching plant about twelve inches high, with lance-shaped, bristly leaves, eight in a whorl. The whorled leaves are charac- teristic of the Asperulas as well af of the Galiums. No representatives of the genus are native to the United States, and but one is adventive here, galioldes, found in New England. 416. Asperula. Asperula orienlhlis. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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