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STELLATE. 
_ GALIUM APARINE.  CLEAVERS, or GOOSE GRASS. 
SYNONYMA. Aparine. Pharm. Murray.vi.24. Dale.133. Rutty. 
321. Aparine vulgaris. Bawh Pin. 3 34. Aparine. Ger. Limac. 1122. 
Park. Theat. 567. Ray. Syn. 225. Galium caule ferrato, foliis 
fenis linearibus lanceolatis ferratis, petiolis unifloris. Hall. Hit. 
Stirp. Helv. n. 723. Galium Aparine. Scop. Fl. Carn. 2. 157. 
Hudfon. Flor. Ang. 57. Withering. Bot. Arr.157. Lightfoot. Flor. 
Scot, 117. Flor. Dan, Icon. 495. Curt. Flor. Lond. , 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Liz. Gen. Plant. ‘125. 
Gen. Ch. Cor. 1-petala, plana, Sem. 2, fubrotunda. 
Sp. Ch. G, foliis o€tonis lanceolatis ‘Garinatis feabris retrorfum acu- 
_ leatis, geniculis villofis, fruGtu hifpido. | 
ROOT branched, fibrous, annual. - Stalk quadrangular, three or 
four feet in height, weak, climbing, jointed branched: angles befet 
with fhort prickles, which are bent backwards, and faften hold of 
‘neighbouring plants, Leaves ftanding at the joints of the ftalk 
fix or eight together, lanceolate, narrow, finely pointed, on the upper 
fide rough, with {harp prickles. Flowers {mall, white, on rough 
footftalks. Calyx none. Corolla very fmall, wheel-thaped, divided 
into four oval pointed fegments. Filaments four, white, fhorter than 
the corolla. Anthere yellow. Germen below the corolla, double, 
rough. Styles two, fhort. Stigmata globular. Fruit two dry 
roundifh berries, flightly adhering together, covered with hooked 
prickles. Seeds folitary, kidney-fhaped. ce 
Jt is common in cultivated ground and hed roducing its 
flowers from June till Septembage: aint - : 
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