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it more readily from H. pratense by attending to the fringed 
glume, and the greater length of the awns of the corolla of 
the lateral flower, than the awns of their calyx. j 
37. Hordeum pratense.—Near Warrington, August, 1825. 
—There is also in this a bristle at the base of the inner valve 
of the central corolla, as in H. murinum ; it is about half as 
long as the valve. In the lateral flowers, the calyx-valves are 
not fringed, and their awns are much longer than those of 
the corolla. - 
38. Montia fontana.— Wales, June, 1826.—Stem round, 
dichotomously branched. Leaves spathulate and sessile? 
Flowers in axillary branches: flower-stalh at first bent down- 
wards, but on the ripening of the seeds, erect and elongated, 
sometimes branched or divided.— Wales, May, 1828.—6 oF 
7 inches long, an ovate and rather pointed bractea åt the 
base of each cluster of flowers. Corolla, indeed, monopetalous, 
but cleft on one side almost to the base of the tube, between 
two of the smaller segments of the limb, as if an intermediate 
segment were wanting. Filaments inserted at the base of the 
segments, not at the “ base of the corolla.” Seed with a lateral 
embryo, bent round the albumen: outer skin granulated and 
lado d 
39. Galium palustre.—'The transition from the smooth to 
the rough state of this plant may be observed on the borders 
of pools, and it is only in very wet situations that it cot 
responds with the description in Eng. Fl. In dry place - 
especially by road-sides, in Wales, where the earth has been. 
recently disturbed, (in the neighbourhood of marshes,) 1t 
assumes the state of G. Witheringii, and is very luxuriant 
and branched. In marshes, not liable to be overflowed, and 
in boggy ground, it is in every respect like that described 
in Eng. FL under G. Witheringii. The leaves are 5 or 6 P 
a whorl, linear-obovate, blunt, and deflexed; the stem thick- 
ened above the whorl. | 
. 40. Rubia peregrina.— Wales, June, 1826.— Corolla rotate, 
not bell-shaped, (nor funnel-shaped as in R. tinctoria:) 9 
ments, after impregnation, spreading with convex surface? 
