406 

 455. Galium. L. 



Dec. Prodr. IV, p. 593. — Endlicher yen. p. 522. — Meisn, gen. p. 173. — 

 Comment. p. 120. 



Calycis limbus obsoletus. Corolla rotata, 4- rarius 3fida. Fructus 

 subgloboso-didymus , siccus, dicoccus : coccis indehiscentibus , mono- 

 sperniis. 



Sect. I. Leiogalium. Dec. 1. c. 



Flores hermaphroditi, albi. Fructus glabri. — Herbae perennes, 

 verticillis 6 — 10-, rarissime 4 — Sphyllis , inflorescentia cymosa-pani- 

 culata. 



1. G, sylvaticum (L. Sp. 1.55) tbliis oblongis v. subcuneato-oblon- 

 gis acuminato-mucronatis margine scabris ; caulinis octoiiis, caule erecto 

 tereti obtuse quadricostato glabro v. hirto ad genicula incrassato, pa- 

 nicula ampla, corollae laciniis ovatis mucronatis, pedicellis capillaribus 

 ante anthesin nutantibus; fructiferis erecto patentibus fructu glabro 

 subrugoso pluries superantibus, 



G. sylvaticuni. Dec. Prodr. IV, p. 593. — Georgi Beschr. d. nnss. R. III, 4. 

 p. 730, — JuNDz. Fl. lithuan. p. 42. — Mart. Fl. mosq. p, 28. — Besser 

 Enum. p. 7. 42, Nr. 167, — Luce Fl. osil. p. 32. — Eichw. Ski^sfse p, 153. 

 — Hohenack, Enum, Elisabelhpol. p, 216, — C. Koch in Linnaea XVII, p. 32. 



G, inflatuin, Gilib, Fl. lithuan, I, p. 11, — Ej, Exerc, yhytol, I, p. 22. 



/3. foliis angustioribus. 



G, intermedium. Eichw. Skizz-e p. 153 (an etiam Schult. ?). 



Hab. in Rossia media [ins. Osilia (Luce), Lithuania (Gilie., Jondz.), Volhynia 

 (Besser, Eichw.), Mosqua (Mart,)1 et australi [Podolia (Besser, Eichw.)] 

 inque provinciis caucasicis [iberia! (Wilhelms pl. exs.), territor, Eli- 

 sabethpol (Hohenack.)] ; — /3. in Lithuania et Podolia (Eichw,), pr. Witebsk! 

 (C. A. Meyer pl. exs.). 4. 



2. G. mulabile (Besser Enum, p. 42, Nr. 13,'»6) foliis oblongis 

 obtusis mucronatis margine scabris ; caulinis senis demum reflexis, 

 caule diffuso acute quadrangulari glabro ad genicula vix incrassato, 

 panicula ampla, corollae laciiiiis ovatis acurainato-mucronatis, pedicellis 

 capillaribus semper erectis fructum glabrum pluries superantibus. 



G, mutabile, Schult. Mant. ad Syst. veg. III, p. 167, — Eichw. SMzze p. 153. 



Hab. in Rossia australi [Podolia (Andrz. ex Besser, Eichw.) , gub, Cherson 

 Eichw.)]. 4- — Vidi cult. e sem, a cl, Besser communicatis. 



Flores primo flavicantes, demum in pallidum et albuin transeuntes, 

 — A cl. Dec. ad G. linifolium y. rigidulum cum? ducitur. 



3. G. hyrcanicum (C. A. Meyer Ind. cauc. p. 53) glaucescens 

 puberulum, caulibus nuraerosis suberectis subraraosis tetragonis laevibus, 

 foliis senis sublinearibus raucronato - acuminatis uninerviis laevibus, 

 umbellis terminalibus trichotomis, lobis corollae glabrae apiculo deciduo 

 inflexo terrainatis, pedicellis fructiferis erecto- patulis fructu glabro 

 Jaevi vix duplo longioribus. 



G, hyrcanicum. Hohenack. Enmn. Taliisch. p. 39. 



Hab, in provinriis rnucasicis [ai. Taliisch , alt. 800—1100 hexap. ! (C. A. 

 MEifKn, Houenack.;], 4. 



