1S3 TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Galium. 



Fruit-stalks bearing 3 flowers curved downwards. Hall. 

 Leaves from 6 to 8 ; upper surface smooth, keel rough. Fruit 

 roughish, beset with a number of minute tubercles, but which do 

 not end in hairs. Pollich. Umbels on fruit-stalks, generally 2 

 to a whirl, opposite, dividing into 3 branches ; not leafy at the 

 base, each bearing one seed. St. Pedicles sometimes with one 

 leaf at the base. Florets sometimes all three, not unfrequently 2, 

 though commonly only J hermaphrodite. Stems upright, a foot 

 high, or more ; not branched. The whole plant very harsh and 

 rough. Leaves serrated with strong prickles pointing backwards. 



Valantia Aparine. Linn. G. spurium* Huds. G. tricorne. Bot. 

 arr. ed. ii. Three-horned Corn Goose-grass. Cornfields. Monk 



Tryston, between Ferrybridge and Selby, on a limestone soil, 

 plentiful, and near Weatherby, Yorkshire. Mr. Woodward* 

 Cornfields, Puckle church, Gloucestersh. Mr. Swayne. 



A. June, July, 



scatmim. G. Leaves mostly 8 in a whirl, rough, dagger-pointed : 



(J acq.) furrowed : stem and leaves pubescent. Stokes, 



Jacq. austr. 422. 



Stems upright, closely beset with very short soft hairs. Leaves 



sometimes 7, those of the branches fewer, beset with soft hairs. 



* Fruit smooth. Stems above, smooth and shining. Jacq. but in 



his figure it is represented as beset with hairs, as are my speci- 

 mens, even to the last subdivisions. No appearance of prickles 

 on the stem or leaves. Flowering branches opposite, one always 

 shorter than the other. Fruit-stalks smooth. St. 



Downy-stalk Goose-grass. [Hedgerow in a marley soil on 



the side of Red-House-lane, near Worcester. St. J P. Aug. 



tre'rum, G. Leaves 8 in a whirl, strap-shaped, furrowed ; flower- 



ing branches short. 



hot. 66G-FI. dan. \\\6-Kniph. 6-Ludw. 39-Mill. 139- 

 l-Scheldr. 6l-Fuchs. 1<K : -J. B. iii. 720. \-Trag. V&* 

 Bod. 355. \~Lob. obs. 467 '. 3~Ger. em. 1120. l~Park. 



-Mi 



Ger. 967. 1-BIackw. ±35-Pet. 30. 8. 



Stem with large joints ; cylindrical, scored, a little woolly. 

 Leaves smooth, rolled back at the edges ; from 5 to , ( ) in a whirl, 

 but generally 8 upon the principal stem. Blosi. segments greatly 

 expanded. Styles cloven more than half wav down. Bloss. yellow. 



Yellow Ladies Bed Straw. Cheese Rening. Petty Muguet* 



Yellow Goose-grass. Sides of fields and roads, frequent. When 

 within the influence of the sea air it grows extremely small. 



P. July— Oct.* 



* The flowers will coagulate boiling milk. The French prescribe 



them in Hysterk and Epileptic cases. Bgilcd in *lum water they tinge 



wool 



