200 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 



2. G. palustre. White Water Bed-straw. 



Leaves obovate, obtuse ; the upper ones four in a whorl, un- 

 equal in size. Stem weak ; branched in the upper part. 



G. palustre. Linn. Sp. PL 153. mild. v. 1. 585. Fl. Br. 174. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 26. t. 1857. Hook. Lond.fasc. 1 . t. 20. Scot. 51. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 423. Willem. Stell. 44. 



G. n.719. Hall. Hist. v. 1.317. 



Molluginis vulgatioris varietas minor. Raii Syn. 214. Buddie's 

 Herb, in the British Museum. 



In moist meadows, ditches, and the borders of rivers, among reeds 

 and other tall plants, common. 



Perennial. July. 



Stems smooth, much branched, weak, 3 or 4 feet high when sup- 

 ported. Leaves always obtuse, smooth except at the edges j the 

 lower ones, on the main stem, often 5 or 6 in a whorl j the rest 

 but 4, of which 2 opposite ones are always smaller. Panicles 

 terminal, widely spreading, imperfectly corymbose, partly um- 

 bellate, smooth. Cal. scarcely any. Cor. white, with broad, 

 acute, not pointed, segments. Fruit small, very smooth. Fruit 

 dotted, sparingly perfected. 



G. album, Ger. Em. 1 126, though cited by Ray and all following- 

 authors, appears by the figure to be some other species. 



3. G. Witheringii. Rough Heath Bed-straw. 

 Leaves about five in a whorl, widely spreading, lanceolate, 



fringed with bristles. Stem upright, slightly branched, 

 rough with reversed hooks. 



G. Witheringii. Fl. Br. 174. Engl. Bot. t;.31. t. 2206. Hull ed.2. 

 44. Hook. Scot. 5 1 . 



G. montanum. With. 128. t. 28, (incorrect) , from the author. 



In moist, heathy, rather elevated, spots. 



On the high but boggy parts of Handsworth heath, near Birming- 

 ham, (now inclosed and cultivated). Withering. Norfolk. Mr. 

 Rose. In Bank Meadow, at Rose Castle, Cumberland. Bishop 

 of Carlisle. In Anglesea. Mr. W. Wilson. 



" This appears , by a specimen in the herbarium of the late Rev. 

 H. Davies, to be his G. uliginosum , Welsh Bot. 15." Mr. Wilson. 

 It is more luxuriant than I ever before saw G. Witheringii, the 

 stem being two feet long. 



Perennial. July. 



Root creeping, slender. Stem upright, weak, about a foot high, 

 slightly branched, sometimes quite simple, quadrangular, leafy ; 

 the angles beset with minute hooks, curved downwards. Leaves 

 5, sometimes 6, in a whorl ; on the branches but 4 j spreading 

 or deflexed, small, elliptic-lanceolate, bluntish, often tipped with 

 a very small bristle, not a hair, scarcely perceptible, and fre- 

 quently wanting ; the midrib rough underneath with reversed 



