JUNE. 193 
TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
CoROLLIFLORZ. GALIACES. 
GALIUM. (Bep-srraw.) 
Generic Character. See page 127. 
GaLium sAxaTILE. Smooth Heath Bed-straw. Ueathy 
places and hilly pastures are often white with this little plant 
during the summer months. The flowers are small, but 
purely white. Leaves six in a whorl. Stem very much 
branched and prostrate. Fruit smooth. This plant turns 
almost black in drying. 
Gatium mMoLiuGo. Great Hedge Bed-straw. This species 
flowers towards the end of the month, and is seen in hedges 
with its long straggling stems, and loose panicle of white 
flowers. Leaves eight in a whorl, rough at the margin, with 
prickles pointing forward. Fruit smooth. 
GALIUM APARINE. Goose-grass, or Cleavers. This species 
and another, G. doreale, are the only two that have rough 
fruit ; the name in English is derived from the circumstance 
of its clinging to everything that it touches, the bristles by 
which it is covered being hooked; by this means the plant 
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