TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 209 



the whorls, smooth, or a little downy ; in (3 hairy, as well as the 

 foliage, though not very remarkably. Leaves elliptic-obovate, 

 deep green ; paler beneath ; generally very smooth, except the 

 edges, which are beset with small prickles, pointing forward. 

 Flowers abundant, milk-white, in terminal loose panicles. Seg- 

 ments of the cor. three-ribbed, each tipped with a tumid point, 

 not a bristle. Fruit small, often abortive. 



15. G. anglicum. Wall Bed-straw. 



Leaves about six in a whorl, lanceolate, pointed, fringed 

 with prickles. Stems straggling, rough. Flower-stalks 

 cloven. Fruit granulated, without hairs. 



G. anglicum. Hucls. 69. Fl. Br. 1/9. Engl. Bot. v. 6. t. 384. 

 Willem. StelL 48. 



G. parisiense. Relh. 67. 



Aparine minima. Raii Syn. 225. t. 9.f. J. 



On walls, and dry sandy ground. 



In Kent. Hucls. In several parts of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cam- 

 bridgeshire, especially on old ruins. 



Annual. June, July. 



Root small. Whole plant scarcely a span high, with many spread- 

 ing, square, slender and brittle stems, whose angles are rough 

 with deflexed bristles, as the little leaves are at their edges, and 

 sometimes other parts, with prickles directed forwards. The 

 lower leaves are obovate, coarsely reticulated with veins. Fl. 

 pale greenish yellow, not hair-pointed. Germen and fruit rough 

 with minute tubercles, but never observed to be hairy. In this 

 last particular, and the dark-purple corolla, G. parisiense of Lin- 

 naeus, G. litigiosum of DeCandolle, Ic. 8. t. 26, differs from our 

 plant 3 nor does the fruit of the latter, though densely hairy, 

 seem to be warty. I have G. anglicum, nevertheless, from Nar- 

 bonne, and it is G. divarkatum of Pourret. 



** Fruit bristly. 



16. G. boreale. Cross-leaved Bed-straw. 



Leaves four in a whorl, ovate-lanceolate, three-ribbed, 

 smooth, with rough edges. Stem erect. Fruit rough with 

 hooked bristles. 



G. boreale. Linn. Sp. PL 156. Willd. v. 1.595. Fl. Br. 180. Engl. 



Bot.v.2.t.\05. Hook. Scot. 53. H.Dan. 1. 1024. Ehrh. Herb. 92. 



Willem. Stell.Sl. 

 G. n. 722. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 318. 

 Mollugo montana erecta quadrifolia. Raii Syn. 224. 

 Rubia pratensis laevis, acuto folio. Bauh. Proclr. 145. 

 R. erecta quadrifolia. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 716./. 



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