GALIUM 261 



Enum. Hort. Berol. 153 (1809' and Herb. n. 2721, which is considered 

 to be synonymous with the plant of Gaudin. 



We have another form of G. Molhigo which has a distinctly hairy 

 stem, especially under the lower whorls of leaves, and with more 

 patent panicle-branches. It is very near to the var, pubescens, Schrad. 

 Spic. Fl. Lips. 16 (1794), biit the leaves are not so long. Nyman 

 places the latter variety under G. eredum, but there is great diversity of 

 opinion respecting the limitation of the two species ; indeed Bentham 

 and other authorities have united them. 



A Galium was sent by Mr. Bolton King from wet meadows by the 

 Thames at Old Windsor with the following note : ' Mr. H. C. Watson 

 has examined specimens of this and thinks it may be the diffusuyn 

 [D. Don in Hooker, Fl. Scot. i. 52], the cinereiim of Smith, but he is 

 very doubtful about it. Prof. Babington thinks it is a form oi eredum, 

 while Dr. Boswell thinks it is Bakeri: See Bot. Exch. Club Report (1879), 

 and Rep. (1892) 373. Perhaps this may be identical with my plants from 

 Bray which I am inclined to refer to G. clumetorum, Jord. Pugill. 78. 



G. MoLLUGo X VEKUM — G. verum, var. ochroleucum, Syme, 1. c. 214, occurs 

 on a bank on the Abingdon Road between Oxford and Bagley Wood 

 with both of the assumed parents. It is nearer to verum than to 

 MollugOj the foliage being nearly that of G. verum, but it is a much 

 taller plant with larger greenish-white flowers. See Rep. of Bot. Exch. 

 Cluh, 1888. It has remained constant for eight years. The description 

 of G. ambiguum, Gren. et Godr. Fl. Fr, ii. 20, appears to be fairly 

 characteristic of our plant, but I have not been able to see an authentic 

 specimen. To this hybrid may also probably be referred the plant 

 described as ' G. verum, var. Jlore albo, in Sonning Lane. It differs from 

 G. verum by its higher growth, as well as in the colour of the flowers 

 and their not being so abundant,* by Mr. S. Rudge in Bot. Guide, 1805, 

 and Herb. Brit. Mus. The specimen is allied to G. approximatum, Gren. 

 et Godr. Lc, but the latter is said by Corbiere in NouveUc Flore de 

 Normandie, 302 (1893), to be a hybrid of G. verum and G. eredum. 



G. MoUugo occurs in all the bordering counties. 



G. hercynicum, Weigel. Obs. 25 (1772). Heath Bedstrcav. 



G. saxatile, Linn. Sp. PI. 154, ed. 2 (1762), not of ed. i, 106 (1753). 



Top. Bot. 212. Syme, E. B. iv. 219, t, 651. Nyman, 327. Fl, Oxf. 149. 

 Native. Ericetal. Heathy ground and open w^oods. Locally abundant 



and a conspicuous feature in the heathy districts, but absent from 



large tracts of the northern and eastern side of the county. P. 



May- August. 

 First record. Mollugo montana minor Gallia albo similis, Ray, Hist. 482. 



In pratis prope Chilswell, Br. Dillenius in Herb. Oxf. 1744. G.pro- 



cumbens, Dr. Noehden. Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



