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ASPERULA.ASPERULA.Limb very short, 4-toothed, deciduous, or obsolete.Corollafunnel-shaped, rarely campanulate, 4-cleft, rarely 3-cleft. Styles2, joined at the base, and sometimes nearly to the apex. Fruitdidymous, not crowned with the calyx, almost dry.900. A. odorata Linn. sp. 150. Eng. Bot. t. 755. Smith Eng.Fl. i. 197. In woods throughout Europe. (Woodroof.)Root creeping.Stems simple, annual, a span high, angular, smooth,leafy. Leaves 7-9 in each whorl, usually 8, bright green, spreading,about an inch long, rough at the edges only. Panicles generally 3together, on longish stalks, forked, not much subdivided. Flowerspure white, with a short tube ; fragrant chiefly at night. Fruit rough,with ascending bristles. The herb while drying has the scent of newhay, approaching to bitter almonds, or Heliotropium peruvianum, ofwhich it retains a portion some time. Smith, It passes for a diuretic.44-7

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