200 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 



Engl. Bot. V. 26. t, 1857. Hook. Lorid.fasc. 1. t. 20. Scot. 51. 



Fl. Dan. t. 423. Willem. Siell. 44. 

 G. n. 719. Hall. Hist. V. 1.317. 

 Molluginis vulgatioris varietas minor. Rail Syn. 2\4. Buddie's 



Herb, in the British Museum. 



In moist meadows, ditches, and the borders of rivers, among reeds 

 and other tall plants, common. 



Perennial. July. 



Stems smooth, much branched, weak, 3 or 4 feet high when sup- 

 ported. Leaves always obtuse, smooth except at the edges ; the 

 lower ones, on the main stem, often 5 or 6 in a whorl ; the rest 

 but 4, of which 2 opposite ones are always smaller. Panicles 

 terminal, widely spreading, imperfectly corymbose, partly um- 

 bellate, smooth. Cal. scarcely any. Cor. white, with broad, 

 acute, not pointed, segments. Fruit small, very smooth. Fruit 

 dotted, sparingly perfected. 



G. album, Ger. Em. 1 126, though cited by Hay and all following 

 authors, appears by the figure to be some other species. 



3. G. JVitherins^ii. Rough Heath Bed-straw. 



Leaves about five in a whorl, widely spreading, lanceolate, 

 fringed with bristles. Stem upright, slightly branched, 

 rough with reversed hooks. 



G. Witheringii. Fl.Br. 174. En^L Bot. v. 31. t. 2206. Hulled. 2. 



44. Hook. Scot. h]. 

 0. montanum. With. 128. t. 28, (incorrect), from the author. 



In moist, heathy, rather elevated, spots. 



On the high but boggy parts of Handsworth heath, near Birming- 

 ham, (now inclosed and cultivated). Withering. Norfolk. Mr. 

 Rose. In Bank Meadow, at Rose Castle, Cumberland. Bishop 

 of Carlisle. 



Perennial. July. 



Root creeping, slender. Stem upright, weak, about a foot high, 

 slightly branched, sometimes quite simple, quadrangular, leafy ; 

 the angles beset with minute hooks, curved downwards. Leaves 

 5, sometimes 6, in a whorl ; on the branches but 4 ; spreading 

 or deflexed, small, elliptic-lanceolate, bluntish, often tipped with 

 a very small bristle, not a hair, scarcely perceptible, and fre- 

 quently wanting ; the midrib rough underneath with reversed 

 hooks ; the upper side, near the edges, with bristles pointing 

 forward, as are also the edges themselves, except near the base, 

 where there are often some reversed hooks. Panicles small, ter- 

 minal, forked, smooth, except the main stalk. Buds purplish. 

 Cor. cream-coloured; segments 3 -ribbed, acute, pointless. Anth. 

 at first pale yellowish green, but soon turning to a reddish 

 brown. Style deeijly cloven. Sligm. globular, green. Germen 

 ^n(\ fruit smooth. 



