TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 205 



Valanthi Ai)anne. Liwi. Sp. PL 1491. ffVld. v. 4. 950 j with 

 fault// synonyma. Schrad. Spicil. 5;3. t. i.f.3. Willem. Stell 87. 



Aparine semine coriaiulri saccharati. Toiini. Inst. 114. Vaill.Par. 

 t.4.f.3,b. 



A. minor saxatilis, verrucoso semine. Cupan. Pannh. ed. \.v.\. 

 t.2l. 



In cornfields, rare. 



In the Carse of Gowrie, and near Forfar, Scotland. Mr. G. Don. 

 Near Malton, Yorkshire. Mr. R. Miller. 



Annual. JiDie — August. 



Roof slender, reddish when dried. Stems several, spreading, a 

 span long-, slightly branched, rough at the 4 angles with reflexed 

 prickles, while similar ones on the margins of the leaves all point 

 forward. Fl. small, pale yellow. Fruit a large double globe, 

 beset with pyramidal warts, which give it the form of coriander 

 comfits. The two lateral powers generally have no pistil. 



10. G. tricorne. Rough-fruited Corn Bed-straw. 

 Three-flowered Goose-grass. 



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

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

 three-flowered. Fruit sharply granulated, drooping. 



G.tricorne. With.ed. 2. 153. Fl. Br. 176. Engl. Dot. v. 23. ^.1641. 

 Relh. 5G. 



G. spurium. Huds. 68. With. 190. Sibth. d9. Abbot 33. 



G. n. 72.5. Hall. Hist. v. 1.319. Davall. 



Valantia Aparine. Mart. Rust. f. 122. 



Aparine semine Iseviore. Raii Syn. 225. 



A. semine Isevi. Vaill. Par. 14. t. 4./. 3 j except b. 



A. coriandri semine, foliis asperis. Cupan. Panph. ed.2. t. 18. 



A. foliis brevioribus, et semine leeviore. Moris, v. 3. 332. 



In dry chalky fields, not common. 



In the isle of Thanet, in Surrey, and near Stamford. Hudson. In 

 Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Norfolk, and the isle 

 of Wight. FL Br. and Engl. Bot. 



Annual. July. 



Root small. Stems several, simple, weak, with four rough angles, 

 whose prickles are deflexed, as in the last. The edges and ribs 

 of the ^earei- are beset with similar prickles, all curved down- 

 wards, not, as in the preceding, directed towards the point. 

 This invariable character might have prevented Haller, W'illde- 

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

 deed differ in other respects, Th^ Jlowers of the present are 

 greenish white, all three on each stalk generally perfect in 

 structure, though seldom all fertile. The />Mi/ is a double globe, 

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

 siiaven with a razor. 



