TETRANDHIA-MONOGYNIA. Galium. 199 



have retained an obsolete and unmeaning name, for a plant 

 which might easily have had one more expressive. 



09. GALIUM. Bed-straw. 



Linn. Gen. 52. Juss. 196. Fl. Br. 1/3. Tourn. t.39. Lam, t. 60, 



Gcertn. t. 24. 

 Aparine. Tourn. t.39. 



Nat. Orel, see n. 67. 



Cat. superior, very minute, with 4 teeth. Cor. monopeta- 

 lous, wheel- shaped, in 4 deep, acute, often long-pointed, 

 segments, without a tube. Filam. from the base of the 

 corolla, awl-shaped, shorter than the limb. Anth. of 2 

 round cells. Germ, inferior, of 2 combined globes. Style 

 thread-shaped, the length of the stamens, cloven at least 

 half-way down. Stigm. capitate. Seeds 2, naked, com- 

 bined, globular, not crowned by the calyx. 



A genus, chiefly Europaean, more extensive than the last, 

 similar in habit. FL terminal or lateral, not sweet-scented. 

 The skin of the seed, as in Asperula, is either smooth, gra- 

 nulated, or bristly. In some species the /lowers are par- 

 tially imperfect ; in others partly 3-eleft, or 5-cleft. 



* Fruit smooth. 



1. G. crucialum. Cross -wort Bed-straw. Mug-weed. 



Leaves ovate, hairy, four in a whorl. Stem hairy, simple 

 above. Flower-stalks axillary, corymbose, with two 

 leaves. 



G. cruciatum. With. 186. Fl. Br. 173. Engl. Bot. v. 2. /. 143. 

 Hook. Scot. 5 1 . 



G. Cruciata. Scop. Cam. v. 1. 100. 



G. n.709. Hall. Hist. v. 1.314. 



Valantia Cruciata. Linn. Sp. PI. \49\. Willd.v. 4.951. Huds. 441. 

 Willem. Stell. 86. 



Cruciata. Ger. Em. 1 123./. Rail Syn. 223. Dod. Pempt. 357./. 



In thickets and hedges, common. 



Perennial. May. 



Root slender, creeping. Stem branched at the base, simple above, 

 12 or 18 inches high, square, hairy, supporting itself among 

 bushes, and beset with numerous whorls of soft, hairy, ribbed, 

 ovate leaves. Flowers small, yellow, about 8 on a slender co- 

 rymbose stalk, from the bosom of each leaf, and accompanied by 

 2 smaller ovate leaves, upon the stalk. Several of the,/, want 

 the pistil; some are 3-cleft ; a few occasionally 5-clcft. Fruit 

 quite smooth, concealed by the de flexed leaves. 



