178 ORD. IX! Stellate. GALIUM APARINE:. 
Other species of Galium have been used for the purposes of medi- 
cine, especially the G. verum, or yellow lady’s bed-straw, the 
flowers of which have been recommended in hysteric and epileptic 
complaints. It has been asserted, that thesé flowers contain an acid, 
which coagulates milk; but neither Bergius, Cullen, nor Young, 
observed this effect from them, after repeated trials. 
Se 
SPIGELIA MARILANDICA. . PERENNIAL WORM-GRASS, 
aS , Or, INDIAN PINK. 
a 
SYNONYMA. Spigelia. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Periclymeni 
virginiani flore coccineo planta marilandica, spica erecta, foliis 
conjugatis. Catesby Carel. vol.ti.p. 78. Lonicera marilandica 
spicis terminalibus, foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis distinctis 
sessilibus. Sp. Plant. p: 249. Spigelia marilandica. fol: ovatis 
oppositis spica secunda terminali. Walter Flor. Carol. p. 92. 
- Vide Mantiss. Lin. ii. p. 338. Ess. & Obs. Phys. & Lit. vol. iii. 
p. 151. ‘Curt. Bot. Mag. 80. 
Class:Pentandria: Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 209: 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. infundibulif. Caps. didyma, 2-locularis, 
polysperma. 
Sp. Ch. S. caule tetragono, foliis omnibus oppositis. 
THE root is perennial, unequal, simple, sends off many slender 
fibres, and grows in an horizontal direction: the stalk is simple, 
erect, smooth, obscurely quadrangular, of a purplish colour, and 
commonly rises above a foot in height: the leaves are ovate, sessile, 
somewhat undulated, entire, of a deep green colour, and stand in 
pairs upon the stem: the flowers are large, funnel-shaped, and 
terminate the stem in a spike: the calyx divides into five long 
