An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . ew. Fruit a double fleshy berry. Southern part of our 7. SHERARDIA, L. Resembles Galium, but flowers are funnel-form with a decided tube andleaves are spiny pointed. Calyx tube 4- to 6-parted. Corolla 4- to 4 or 5. S. arvensis, L. (Fig. 6, pi. 152.) Blue Field Madder. Stemsgrowing in tufts 3 to 10 in. long, weak. Leaves in 43, 5s or 6s, lance-BJiaped, sharp at apex. Flowers in terminal clu
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . ew. Fruit a double fleshy berry. Southern part of our 7. SHERARDIA, L. Resembles Galium, but flowers are funnel-form with a decided tube andleaves are spiny pointed. Calyx tube 4- to 6-parted. Corolla 4- to 4 or 5. S. arvensis, L. (Fig. 6, pi. 152.) Blue Field Madder. Stemsgrowing in tufts 3 to 10 in. long, weak. Leaves in 43, 5s or 6s, lance-BJiaped, sharp at apex. Flowers in terminal clusters, each subtended byan involucre, which is as long as the flowers. Corolla pink or in many places. June-July. 8. ASPERULA, L. Another Galium-like plant with white or pinkish flowers. Leaves fi to9 in a whorl, rough at tlie margins. Corolla funnel-sliaped. Fruit lapairs. Flowers in terminal nearly flat clusters. A. odorata, L. (Fig. 5. pi. 152.) Woodruff. Stem slender,erect, smooth. Leaves usually in 8s (less or more), lance-shaped, bristle-pointed. Flowers pink or white. Fruit hairy. Naturalized, in wastepla<;es. May-July. Madder family 589. Plate 1521. Galium trifidum. 2. G. concinnum. 3. G. kamtschaticum. 4. G. his-pidulum. 5. Asperula odorata. 6. Sherardia arvensis. 7. Sambucus cana-densis. 8. S. racemosa. 590 CAPRTFOLlACEAE Family II.—CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle Family Plants very closel} related to the Family Eubiaceae, the leavesin this last being usually accompanied by minute stipules or byleaf-like stipules, the Honeysuckle family nearly always destituteof stipules. These plants are nearly always woody. In our areathere are but two exceptions, one of which is the extremely in-teresting creeper, the Linnaea, the other, Triosteum. The leavesare opposite. Flowers have both stamens and pistils and are regu-lar or quite irregular in form. The corolla is composed of unitedpetals and takes different forms, but the border is always s
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