TETRANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Galium. 209 



edges, which are beset with small prickles, pointing forward 

 tlowers abundant, milk-white, in terminal loose panicles See;- 

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

 not a bristle. Fruit small, often abortive. 



15. G. a?iglicu7)i. Wall Bed-straw. 



Leaves about six in a whorl, lanceolate, pointed, frin^red 



witii prickles. Stems straggling, rough. Flower-stalks 



cloven. Fruit granulated, without hairs. 



G. anglicum. Huds. 69. Fl. Br. 1/9. Engl. Bot. v. C / 384 

 Willcm. St ell. 48. 



G. parisiense. Ftelh. 67. 



Aparine minima. Rail Syn. 22.5. t. O.f. 1. 



On walls, and dry sandy ground. 



In Kent. Huds. ' In several parts of iNorfolk, Suffolk, and Cam- 

 bridgeshire, especially on old ruins. 



Annual. Ju}ie, July. 



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

 ing, square, slender and brittle stems, whose angles are rou2h 

 With defiexed bristles, as the little leaves are at their edoes and 

 sometimes other parts, with prickles directed forwards 'xhe 

 lovver leaves are obovate, coarsely reticulated with veins Fl 

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

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

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

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

 plant ; 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. divaricatum of Pourret. 



** Fniil bristly, 



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



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



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



hooked bristles. 



G boreale. Z^««. %P/. 156. Willd. v. 1.59.1. Fl.Br.]SO En-l 

 Bot.v.2.t. 105. Hook. Scot. 53. Fl. Dan. 1. 1024. Elirh Herb 92 

 Uillem. St ell. 31. 



G. n.722. Hall. Hist. v. 1.318. 



Mollugo montana erecta quadrifolia. Raii Syn. 224. 



Ilubia pratensis leevis, acuto folio. Bauh. Prodr. 145. 



R. erecta quadrifolia. Bauh. Hist, v 3. ;;. 2. 7 Ki. /; 



In rocky shady places, by rivers and lakes, in the north of England, 



and in Scotland, not uncommon. 

 Perennial. Juhj. 



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