. Flowers of the field. Botany. 2.^6 RUBIACE/E I. R. peregrina (Wild Madder).—The only British species, a long straggling plant, many feet in length; stems 4-angled, with recurved bristles on the angles ; leaves 4—6 in a whorl, ovate, glossy above, with recurved bristles on midrib and margin, nearly evergreen; flowers yellowish, in paniclcd cymes; corolla 5-cleft; berries black, about as large as currants, remaining attached till late in winter.—Rocky places in the south and west; uncommon. -—Fl. June—August. Perennial. (Bedstraw),. RUBIA PEREGRl'.-iA (M'iAf Dla^th'?'), Herbs differing
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 2.^6 RUBIACE/E I. R. peregrina (Wild Madder).—The only British species, a long straggling plant, many feet in length; stems 4-angled, with recurved bristles on the angles ; leaves 4—6 in a whorl, ovate, glossy above, with recurved bristles on midrib and margin, nearly evergreen; flowers yellowish, in paniclcd cymes; corolla 5-cleft; berries black, about as large as currants, remaining attached till late in winter.—Rocky places in the south and west; uncommon. -—Fl. June—August. Perennial. (Bedstraw),. RUBIA PEREGRl'.-iA (M'iAf Dla^th'?'), Herbs differing chiefly from Rubia in having a rotate, 4dobed, rarely 5- lobed, corolla and a dry p-vit of 2 I-seeded carpels. (Name from the Greek gala, milk, some species being used to curdle it.) * Leaves 2,-^veiiied 1. G- borecile (Cross-leaved Bed- straw).—Stem erect, i—2 feet high ; leaves 4 in a whorl, smooth, lanceolate ; flowers many, white; fruit rough, with hooked prickles. —Damp rocky places in the north. —Fl. July, August. Perennial. 2. G. Crncirila (Crosswort).— Prostrate, about a foot long, hairy ; leaves 4 in a whorl, elliptic, soft and downy ; flowers yellow, in 6—8-flowered axillary cymes, very fragrant, upper ones having pistils only, lower, stamens only; fruit smooth.—Dry banks ; common — Fl. May, June. Perennial. ** Leaves i-vniied: flowers in axillary and terminal panicles : fruit smooth : pereiinied 3. G. vernm (Lady's Bedstraw).—Leaves ahoui 8 in a whorl, ^'ery narrow (almost thread-like), revolute, downy beneath ; flowers golden-yellow, rarely pale or green, in de,nse and terminal panicles.—Dry banks ; abundant. The Highlanders use the roots, in conjunction with alum, to die red, and the flowers to curdle milk —Fl. June—September. Perennial. 4. G. erectum (Upright ).--Sub-ercct ; leaves 6 — 8 in a whorl, lanceolate, with bristly margins ; cyme with ascending. Please note that these images are extracted from scanne
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