208 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 



Villars, if correctly drawn, must be different. His species require 

 an accurate scrutiny ; they are probably too many $ nor was 

 he or his pupils invariably correct in the specimens of this diffi- 

 cult tribe, which they sent named to their correspondents. 



13. G. verum. Yellow Bed-straw. 



Leaves eight in a whorl, linear, channelled, entire, rough. 

 Flowers in dense panicles. Fruit smooth. 



G. verum. Linn. Sp. PL 155. Willd. v. 1. 590. Fl. Br. 178. Engl. 



Bot. v. 10. t. 660. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. /. 13. Mart. Rust. t. 54. 



Hook. Scot. 50. Willem. Stell. 6 1 . 

 G. n.710. Hall. Hist. v. 1.315. 

 G. luteum. Ger. Em. 1 126./. Rati Syn. 224. 

 Galium. Matth. Valgr. v.2.47b.f. Camer. Epit.868.f. Fuchs. 



Hist. 196. f. Dad. Pempt. 355./. Mill. Ic. 93. t. 139./. 1. 



In hilly, bushy places, and about the borders of fields, in dry 

 ground, frequent. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root creeping, of a tawny hue. Stems 18 inches high, somewhat 

 woody, round, with numerous, opposite, square, leafy, often 

 downy, branches. Leaves narrow, deep green, revolute, deflexed, 

 rough with minute points, and each tipped with a hair. Fl. of 

 a golden yellow, extremely numerous, in dense tufted panicles, 

 smelling of honey, very strongly in the evening, or before rain. 

 Stamens short. Anth. brown in decay. Fr. small, round, blackish. 

 A kind of vinegar is said to have been distilled from the flowery 

 tops, and the herb was formerly used to coagulate milk, for 

 Cheshire cheese. Mr. Curtis reports that the roots yield a better 

 red than Madder, and that the whole plant dyes a good yellow. 



14. G. Mollugo. Great Hedge Bed-straw. 



Leaves eight in a whorl, elliptical, bluntish, bristle-pointed, 

 rough-edged. Flowers in loose spreading panicles. Co- 

 rolla thick-tipped. Seeds smooth, globular. 



G. Mollugo. Linn. Sp. PL 155. mild. v. 1 . 590. FL Br. 1 78. 



Engl. Bot. v. 24. t. 1673. Hook. Scot. 53. FLDan.t.4ob. Bull. 



Fr. t. 283. Ehrh. PL Off. 441. Willem. Stell. 32. 

 G. n.711. Hall. Hist. v. 1.315. 

 Mollugo. Dod. Pempt. 354./. 

 M. vulgatior. Raii Syn. 223. 



Rubia sylvestris. Ger. Em. 1118./. Fuchs. Hist. 28 1 ./. 

 )3. Galium scabrum. With. \90, from the author. 

 In hedges and thickets. 

 Perennial. July, August. 

 Stem 3 or 4 feet high, or taller if supported by bushes ; more dwarf 



upon open chalky hills ; square, swelling and pale just above 



