GALIUM 259 



First record. Golden Crossivurt. It growes on ye sides of Botley Hills 

 in the pastures, MS. in Lyte's Herball, 1660. Medley wood, Sir 

 Joseph Banks, 1770. (Perhaps in Oxfordshire.) Galium cruciatum, 

 Mr. Bicheno, Dr. Noeliden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Buekland and Pusey, Boswell. Coleshill. Buscot. Cumnor. 



Wythani. 



2. Ock. Marcham, Walker. Tubney, Fl. Oxf. Near Pusey. 



3. Pang. Bradfield, Jenkinson. Yattendon, Weaver. Tilehurst, 



Tiifnail. Near Pangbourn. Ashampstead. Aldworth. Bucklt- 

 buiy. Basildon. Abundant near Bottom Farm. 



4. Kennet. Chapel Row, Bicheno, I. c. Mortimer. Aldermaston. 



Inkpen. Hungerford. KieverWood. Burghfield. Southcote. 



5. Loddon. Bisham Wood, Mill. Near Lord Downshire's, Penny. 



Shinfield, Tiifnail. Arborfield. Hurst. Near Loddon Bi'idge. 



Near Ashley Hill. Cookham, &c. 



The foregoing are only representative of a large number of localities. 



The var. laevipes, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 329 ^1837), with glabrous 



pedicels and peduncles, which occurs in Germany, should be looked 



for. Galium Cruciata occurs in all the bordering counties. 



G. verum, Linn. Sp. PI. 107 ,1753'. Yellow Bedstraw, Lady's Bedstraii: 

 Cheese Rening. GaVium lutewn, C. B. Pin. 335. 



Top. Bot. 210. Syme, E. B. iv. 214, t. 648. Nyman, 328. Fl. Oxf. 150. 



Native. Pascual. Dry pastures, field-borders, not only in dry sandy 

 places, but sometimes in clayey meadows. Frequent and widely 

 distributed, and a considerable factor in the colour effect of our 

 meadows and upland pastures. P. May-September. 



First record. G. verum, Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



An enumeration of localities is not needed since this well-known 



plant grows plentifully in all the districts and probably occurs in every 



rural parish. A pale-flowered form {f. pallidiflora) occurs with no trace 



of hybridity in it, and must not be confounded with G. Mollugo-venoa. 



The common form of G. verum with us is glabrous {G. glahrum, Req. 



MSS. in Gren. et Godr. Fl. France, ii. 19), but the stems in some 



instances are slightly pubescent, as in plants from Frilford. 

 G. verum occurs in all the bordering counties. 



G. erectum, Huds. Fl. Angl, 56 (1762). 



Top. Bot. 212. Syme, E. B. iv. 217, t. 649. Nyman, 324. Fl. Oxf. 148. 



Native or colonist. Pascual. Meadows and pastures. Very local and 



rather rare. P. July-September. 

 First record. Gallii species prope Oxonium a D. Buddie in Herh. du Bois 

 at Oxford, 1700. G. erectum. Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 2. Ock. Typical plants occur in a grass field near Marcham and at 

 Frilford. 



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