202 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 



pointed ; their edges rough, like the stem, with recurved 

 prickles. Fruit smooth, smaller than the corolla. 



G. uliginosum. Linn. Sp. PL 153. Wild. v. 1 . 595. Fl. Br. 1 75. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 28. t. 1972. Don H. Br. 102. Hook. Lond.fasc. 1. 

 t.2\. Scot. 5 1 . Ehrh. Herb. 1 02. Willem. Stell. 40. 



6. n. 7 13, Hall. Hist. v. 1. 31 6 ; from the son of the author. But 

 it can scarcely be Barreliefs t. 82. 



Aparine palustris minor parisiensis, flore albo. Dill, in Raii Syn. 

 225. 



In wet meadows, watery places, and ditches among reeds, &c. 



Perennial. August. 



Root and lateral shoots creeping. Whole plant of a rather bright 

 green, as in Professor Hooker's excellent figure, which it retains 

 when dry. The stems are brittle and weak, a foot high, sup- 

 porting themselves on other plants, and sticking by their rough 

 edges. Leaves pretty uniformly six in a whorl, except on the 

 weak, or ultimate, shoots ; lanceolate inclining to obovate, their 

 dilatation, if remarkable, being above the middle ; they end in 

 a pale bristle, and the tip of the leaf itself is discoloured ; the 

 edges are uniformly beset with minute, recurved, very sharp 

 prickles, often accompanied with a less complete row of similar 

 prickles, on the disk adjoining, directed the contrary way, which 

 may deceive an incautious observer. The main rib has recurved 

 prickles underneath, like the marginal ones. Fl. small, white, 

 on terminal, forked, smooth, slightly panicled, stalks. Anth. 

 pale. Fruit small, dotted. Willdenow places this among the 

 rough-fruited species ; but his synonyms: are so confused, it is 

 impossible to ascertain what he intended. 



If the points and prickles of the leaves, as well as their shape, be 

 duly observed, this plant can never be confounded with G. Wi- 

 theringii, for the characters thence derived, though much neg- 

 lected, are no less constant than curious. 



6. G. erectum. Upright Bed-straw. 



Leaves about eight in a whorl, lanceolate, bristle-pointed, 

 with marginal prickles all pointing forward. Stem weak, 

 slightly hairy under each joint. Fruit smooth and even. 

 Corolla taper-pointed. 



G. erectum. Huds. 68. Fl. Brit. ]76. Engl. Bot. v. 29. t. 2067. 



Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 17.2. Hook. Scot. 5 1 ? Willem. Stell. 47, 



excluding the syn. 

 In hedges and pastures, whether dry or somewhat moist, but not 



common. 

 On the bushy part of Heydon Common, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. In 



dry hedges at Portslade, Sussex. Mr. Borrer. 

 Perennial. June, July. 

 Stems \~ ov 2 feet high, weak, resting on other plants, branched, 



