204 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 



few recurved prickles. The leaves of these 3 species are more 

 or less revolute, at least when dry. 



8. G. aristatum. Bearded Bed-straw. 



Leaves six in a whorl, stalked, lanceolate, flat, reticulated 

 with veins, bristle-pointed, with minute marginal prickles 

 pointing forward. Stem much branched, spreading, 

 smooth. Seeds smooth, kidney-shaped, separated. Co- 

 rolla taper-pointed. 



G. aristatum. Linn. Sp. PL 152. 



G. foliis pluribus lanceolatis, pedunculis in summo caule floriferis. 

 Van Roy en Prodr. 256. 



G. album linifolium. Barrel, lc. v.\. 12. t. 356. 



Rubia laevis linifolia, floribus albis. Bocc. Mus. v. 1. 63. t. 75. 



On hilly ground in Scotland. 



In Angusshire, but not common. Mr. G. Don. 



Perennial. July, August. 



The root appears by Boccone's figure, of which Barrelier's is a copy, 

 to be woody. Both figures, except the solitary leaf, are dimi- 

 nished. The stems are numerous, a foot high, upright, with co- 

 pious spreading branches, square, very smooth. Leaves 6 in a 

 whorl on the main stem, and often on the branches, though 

 sometimes but 4 or 5 j the largest above an inch long, on short 

 broad stalks, elliptic-lanceolate, flat, pliant, deep green on both 

 sides, with many interbranching veins, smooth except the edges, 

 which are very minutely prickly. Fl. white, in terminal, forked, 

 aggregate, compound panicles, with perfectly smooth, slender, 

 but not capillary, stalks. Segments of the cor. spreading, each 

 tipped with a taper point of its own substance, as in the 2 last, 

 not with a real bristle. Seeds becoming kidney-shaped as they 

 ripen, with a central vacancy, smooth, or slightly granulated. 



This new addition to our Flora', sent by the late Mr. Don as G. erec- 

 tum, is undoubtedly the original G. aristatum, described by 

 Linneeus in Sp. PL 152, with which he afterwards confounded 

 his Icevigatum, Sp. PL 1667. But this latter proves on compa- 

 rison, as he himself suspected, the same with sylvaticum, remark- 

 able for its capillary panicle ; though it is the aristatum of many 

 succeeding authors, as far as they had any distinct ideas of that 

 little-known plant. The fruit of G. sylvaticum is a small double 

 globe, the globular seeds being closely combined j the leaves are 

 glaucous at the back ; the stem round ; in all which particulars 

 it differs abundantly from our true aristatum. Morison, cited 

 in Hort. Kew. does not prove the plant he mentions, whatever 

 it was, to have been cultivated in England - } for he only saw it 

 dry, brought from Paris by Sherard. 



9. G. verrucosum. Warty-fruited Bed -straw. 

 Leaves six in a whorl, lanceolate, with marginal prickles all 



