Asperula.] LXI. RUBIACEZX. 445 
A. Gunnii, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 463 ; Fl. Tasm. i. 
168 Rather small and diffuse, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves 
mostly in whorls of 6 or here and there of 4, only in slender specimens, ob- 
long-linear or linear-cuneate, ot obtuse, rarely above A in. long. Flowers 
or in 
smaller than in 4. conferta, but Ste Sg Fruits globular or didy- 
mous, about 1 d diameter, not Sé ose. 
. Wales. Appin, Bac. 
Vic toria. e ranges d Moni venir? a Mueller 
e — Alpine ge quan was unfrequen 
Var. Smaller and more branched. ven pusilla, k. fin Hook. Lond. Journ 
i 464, a and Ti Tasm. i. 169. t p oki | in m èri subalpine Situations in Tas- 
ania, v D. Hooker 
ia. NER eg MD Town, Gunn. 
29. GALIUM, Linn. 
Calyx completely combined with the ovary, without any visible border. 
Corolla 3 ay the tube scarcely perceptible, with 4 spreading lobes valvate 
I ascending or laterally attached ovule in each cell. Fruit small, dry, 2-lobed 
(when perfect), indehiscent.— Herbs, with weak quadrangular stems. Leaves 
f 4 to 8 i 
in whorls o , of which 2 are real leaves and the remainder stipules, 
although ey similar in size and shape, in one species reduced to the 
(le es. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal trichotomous cymes or 
extensive genus, spread over the whole. of the temperate em of the globe, espe- 
n 
Cally abundant in Eu urope and northern Asia, with very few tropical species, and those 
y limited io 1 mountain regions. Of the five or six Kies —* one is perha 
Pw pm Zealand o ce another is probably int ntroduced from Europe, the remainder 
But the proper vegeta and lirhitation of géet in the whole 
ha very difficult and on disputed questio 
Fnit ph 
En l. G. geminifolium. 
our. x $ 
Owers white. Leaves narrow or — ovate. ; 2. G. Gaudichaudi. 
F Flowers yellow. a vate . ie NE 3. G. ciliare. 
ruit murieate or his 
od in -— ot four, mostly ovate or lanceolate. 
Plan scabro hispid, with short clin nging hairs. yy kw 
Laven v SA SE ith soft hairs not at all clinging . . + 5. G. albescens. 
no f five or e usuall yn narrow. Hairs of the m 
6. G. Aparine. 
z o oder Een Muell. in pee Tit. Inst. 1885, 147, and 
