

TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Galium. 159 



G. Leaves about 6 in a whirl, spear-shaped, pointed, edged anglicum. 



with prickles, reflected : stems wide-spreading, rough 

 with prickles pointing downwards. (Hudson.) 



E. hot. 384-Kniph. IV-Ray Syn. Q.L 



Stems a foot long, feeble, 4-sided, rough when stroked up- 



j wards. Leaves J in a whirl, spear-shaped, dagger-pointed, rough, 



especially at the edge. Flowering branches opposite, short. 

 Fruit st. smooth, 2 or 3-flowered. Linn. Stems 1 to l£ foot high, 

 spreading, 4-cornered, branched ; flowering branches opposite. 

 Leaves bare* (except at the edge) sometimes 7 in a whirl. Huds, 

 Leaves, the prickly hairs at the edge pointing forwards, some- 

 simes a few scattered on the surface; those of the branches gene- 

 rally in pairs as in Ray's figure. Branches rough. Fruit-stalks 



smooth, generally dividing into 3, one of them supporting 2 

 lowers. St. Bloss. greenish yellow, smaller than the fruit, 

 which though less smooth than that of the other species in this 

 subdivision, is still not hispid. Linn, refers the above figure of 

 Ray to his G. parisiense, and also cites Tourn. inst. 064 as 

 another synonym, but Tournefort tells us his plant had a dark 

 purple blossom, it therefore cannot be the same as our's with a 

 yellow blossom. We therefore rather adopt Mr. Hudson's name 

 and character, leaving the parisiense to Tournefort's plant. Mr* 

 Relhan is now satisfied that the plant found on Chippenham Park 

 wall, and in Fl. Cantab, called parisiense, is no other than the 

 anglicum of Hudson. 



Aparine minima. Ray Syn. '225. Small Goose-grass. Tournefort's 



plant with a dark purple blossom cannot belong to this. As both 

 Hudson and Linne refer to the fig. of Ray, there can be no doubt 

 but they both speak of the same plant. At Hackney, on a wall. ' 

 H. ox. III. /. o33. Ray. — Sandy ground between Dartford and 

 Northfieet. On a wall at Farmingham, Kent. Huds. — [On the 

 tvalls of Bin ham church, Norf. Mr. Crowe. J A. June, July. 



(2) Seeds hispid. 



G. Leaves 4 in a whirl, spear-shaped, smooth, 3-fibred: boreale 



stem upright. 



Dicks, h. s.-Fl.dan. 1024-£. hot. \05-Kniph. 5.~Pet. 30. 7 



-J. B. hi. 716". 3. 



Bloss. of a beautiful white, but when dried turning to a dirty 

 yellow. Mr* Griffith. The 3 strongly marked veins or fibres 

 on the leaves afford a strong character. Leaves egg-spear- 



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wool yellow. The roots dye a very fine red, not inferior to madder, and 

 are used for this purpose in the island of Jura. Pennant, 1772, p. 214. 

 Sheep and goats eat it. Horses and swine refuse it. Cows are not fond 

 of it. — This plant is subject to a disease, in which the stem and branches 

 are set with fleshy balls, about the size of a pea: hollow within, and 

 soared with a purplish skin. 



