206 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 



now, and others, from confounding the two species, which in- 

 deed differ in other respects. The flowers .of the present are 

 greenish white, all three on each stalk generally perfect in 

 structure, though seldom all fertile. The fruit is a double globe, 

 covered with bristly granulations, and looks as if it had been 

 shaven with a razor. 



1 1 . G. spurium. Smooth-fruited Corn Bed-straw. 



Leaves about eight in a whorl, lanceolate, with reflexed mar- 

 ginal prickles, like those on the stem. Stalks axillary, 

 many-flowered, cymose. Fruit smooth, erect. 



G. spurium. Linn.Sp. PL 154. Engl. Bot. v. 26. t. 1871. Hook. 

 Scot. 52. Don H.Br. 104. Willem. StelL47. 



G. n. 724. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 318. Nomencl.66. Davall. 



Aparine vulgaris,, semine minori. Vaill. Par. 14. t. 4.f. 4 ; except b. 



In cornfields in North Britain. 



About Forfar, but sparingly. Mr. G. Don. 



Annual. June, July. 



This resembles the common G. Aparine, hereafter described, in 

 habit, but the leaves are sometimes shorter. Their general form 

 is linear-lanceolate ; and they are each tipped with a pale hair, 

 variable in length. They are from 6 to 8 or 9 in a whorl, naked 

 on both sides ; the edges and keel rough with small recurved 

 prickles, such as are found, much more sparingly, on the angles 

 of the square stem. Flower-stalks opposite, from most of the 

 whorls, rather longer than the leaves, not deflexed, but always 

 erect, or spreading, rough, corymbose, each bearing 6 or 7 small, 

 green, pevfectjlowers, with 1 or 2 floral leaves. Stigmas capi- 

 tate. Germen quite smooth. Fruit of 2 kidney-shaped seeds, 

 with a considerable central vacancy ; their surface smooth and 

 even, except a slight ruggedness, apparently caused by drying. 

 Vaillant's beautiful plate represents them hairy, which has caused 

 some doubts as to his synonym. They may vary in this respect, 

 like several others of this genus. His fig. b, still more hairy, 

 belongs to V. Aparine. 



12. G. pusillum. Least Mountain Bed-straw. 



Leaves eight in a whorl, linear-lanceolate, hair-pointed, en- 

 tire, somewhat hairy. Panicles terminal, forked. Fruit 

 very smooth. 



G. pusillum. Linn. Sp. PL 154. Willd. v. 1 . 589. Fl. Br. 1 77. Engl. 

 Bot. v. 2. t. 74. Hook. Scot. 52 ? 



G. scabrum. Jacq. Austr. v. 5. 10. t. 422. 



G. obliquum. Villars Dauph. v. 2. 320. t. 8 ; according to speci- 

 mens from the author, and from his fiend M. Chaix ; but the 

 flowers are not so much pointed as in his figure. 



G. album supinum multicaule. Rupp. Jen. 4. Dill, in Baii Syn, 224. 



