Galium.] LXI. RUBIACER. 447 
at their base. Flowers of G. Gaudichaudi. Fruit small, more or less muri- 
cate or echinate, with hooked bristles. —Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 171; G. den- 
sum, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 461; G. erythrorhizum, F. Muell., 
Mig. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 115. 
Queensland. Warwick, Beck 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson P Wo olls 7). 
Victoria. Wilson's Promontory, F. Mueller 
qme N UM na Kincas d 2 7 Mue 
. Australia. ear Cudnaka a angaroo islan 
Var. Le Stems es foliage i hispid.—G. squalidum, Hook. f. in Hook. 
. Journ. vi. 462, and Fl. Tasm HS 
5. G. petris Hook. ei in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 462, and Fl. Tasm. 
i171. A slender diffuse plant, very near G. australe, a densely clothed 
with soft hairs not at all prehensile. Leaves small, ova n whorls of four. 
el of G. australe. Fruits rather larger, muricate or hispid with hooked 
bristles, 
geg Zeck places on Mount vere H Gunn. 
6. G. rine, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i 608; var. minor. A trailing or 
dimbing : n often several ft. long, but i in the Australian specimen under 
2 ft. , clinging by the recurved asperities or small prickles on n angles of 
stems and on the edges and midribs of the leaves. Leaves in the Aus- 
imens 5 or 6 in the whorl, in the larger forms 6 to " linear or 
inear-anecolate, often above 1 in. long.. Peduneles axillary, bearing a loose 
3 or more small greenish-white flowers, with 4] 
E the cyme. Fruits : covered with hooked bristles e prickles forming 
ve adhesive burrs 
ictoria. r river, F. Mueller ; Wendu valley, Glenelg pm, Robertson. 
S Anean Mount Gambier, F. Mul er. ae dile 
ae ustr: i . mm j m. ` ei ; 
The Species E EL 34 Leid o d northern and central Asia, whence it ye we 
carried with cultivation E — parts gn the world, and it is therefore probably pem 
ouly into Australia. Som the med ste Se small and bad, and perhaps not correctly 
distinguis shed from Zen vs specimens ^ num rale. The western ones, however, appear 
? me without doubt to be the G. Apa 
Orver LXII. ` COMPOSIT IB. 
Flowers or = sta ege together in a head (rarely reduced to a single 
d by an involucre o 
female (heads discoi Stamens 5, rarely 4, inserted in 
scoid but heterogamous). am 
the tube of the corolla, the adde linear and united in a sheath round the 
