TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Galium. 



IS* 



Var. 2. Leaves strap-shaped, 4 in a whirl. 



Resembles the preceding but smaller and hardly half so high. 

 Found on dry ground in Dudley Wood. The leaves being blunt 

 and quite entire, sufficiently distinguish this from the G. monta- 



num. and G. procumbent. 



White Ladies Bed-straw. Banks of rivulets and pools, moist 





meadows, wet commons. 



P. July- 



feeble, rough: leaves reflected. 



monta'num 



PLATE XXVIII. 



Of a middle size, between the G. molluginem and G. Glau- 



cum. Stem leaves five in a whirl, bent back. Branch leaves 

 four in a whirl. Corjmbus three cleft ; white, purplish on the 

 outside before they expand. Anthers brown. Linn. About 

 eight inches high, not at all branched, except sending off fruit- 

 stalks from the whirls of leaves. Stems feeble, rough. Leaves 

 5 in a whirl ; turned back, some so much so as to point down- 

 wards ; serrated with hairs, pointed with a hair, not with a rigid 

 bristle or prickle. Bloss. purple on the outside whilst young- 

 Anthers red brown. Pistil very short, cloven down to the base* 

 The plant now before me accords with the Linnsean character, 

 and also with the additional observations, but not with the Synon. 

 of Haller, Ruppius, or Pollich. So that it may prove to be a 



flew species. 



On high, but boggy, parts of Handsworth Heath. 



G. Leaves spear egg-shaped, 4, 



My- 



paneling: stem prostrate^ smooth. 



E. hot. &15—Pet. 30. 6. 



Stems and branches prostrate, smooth, matted together and 

 spreading on the ground. Flowering stem from 2 to 0" inches 

 high. Stems twisted, cylindrical, but with 4- rounded corners. 

 Leaves 4 in a whirl at the bottom, 5 about the middle, and 6 at 

 the top of the plant, unequal in size, edged with fine prickle- 

 shaped glands ; keel smooth. Flowers in umbels, lateral and ter- 

 minating, l, 2, or 3 from the whirls at the joints of the stem. 

 Bloss. white, sometimes purplish on the outside. Anthers yellow. 

 Pistil nearly as long as the Stamens, divided down to the base. 

 Seeds not rough but with a granulated surface. 



G. montium. Gmelin. Syit. veg. G. mont/mum. Huds. G. 

 Saxatile. E. bot. Trailing Goose-grass. Heaths and mountains. 

 Huds. — Also in marshy places. Ray. — I suspect, however, that 

 Ray's species comprehends also the G. Mollngo in its dwarf 

 state, which see variety 2. St. [On Heaths. Mr. SwAtWB. On 



Dudley Wood, I mile S. W. oi Dudley ; and on Handsworth 

 Heath.] July. 



procum'benii 



