Galium. 921 
A. Fruit on erect or reflexed pedicels, not covered by 
reflexed leaves. 
I. Mericarps globular. 
a) Fruits 2—6 mm long, twin. Corolla white. 
1. Leaves with retrorse hooked prickles . . 1. G. tricorne. 
2. Leaves not with retorse hooked prickles. 2. G. spurium. 
b) Fruits 0,5—1 mm long. Corolla greenish- 
VELIOW,; @altee. oe se sta eee t le tenes Ue ated Sac), nae 3. G. nigricans. 
i Mericarpspoblong, .or ovate.) tt. ata &  pieyt 4. G. murale. 
B. Fruit on recurved pedicels, covered by reflexed leaves 5. G. lanatum. 
1279. (1.) Galium tricorne With. Bot. Arrang., ed. II Vol. I 
(1787—1793) p. 153. — Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p.67. — Rehch. Ic. XVII, 
tab. 147 fig. 3. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Il. Flor. d’Eg., p.83 no. 497. 
— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 759. — Aschers. 
Flor. Rhinoc., p.797 no. 132. — An annual plant, 30—60 cm high, 
or sometimes somewhat more, glabrous; stems flaccid, procumbent, 
retrorsely scabrous. Leaves in sixes an eights, linear, tapering, 
long-mucronate, margins and nerves with retrorse, hooked prickles. 
Cymes axillary, 3-flowered, shorter than the leaves; flowers perfect; 
fruit twin, mericarps sometimes 6 mm broad, minutely tubercled. 
— Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. Mariut; Bringhi; Behig; Alexandria-West and -Hast; 
Mandara. — M. p. El-‘Arish. — N. d. N.f. N. v. O. Often in waste 
places and on way sides, rarely in sandy places. 
Also known from the Mediterranean region, whole Europe, Caucasia, 
Mesopotamia, Persia and Belutshistan. 
1280. (2.) Galium spurium L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 154. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. II, p. 69. — Galium infeste W. K. Plant. Hung. III, 
tab. 202. — Galium segetum P. Koch in Linnaea XVII, p. 33. — 
Galium aparinoides C. Koch in Linnaea XVII, p. 33. — Aschers.- 
Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., Supplem. p. 759. — An erect annual herb, 
40—50 cm high, or sometimes somewhat more, not swollen at the 
joints. Leaves in sixes and eights, linear-oblanceolate, 2—4 cm 
long. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves; flowers perfect; 
fruiting pedicels divaricate, straight; fruit small, 2 mm_ broad, 
glabrous or hispid. — Flow. March to May. 
D. a. sept. Wady Omm Khurm, in the Northern Galala. 
Also known from Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria. 
1281. (3.) Galium nigricans Boiss. Diagnos. Ser. Plant. Orient. I, 
fasc. III (1849) p.48. — var. brachychaetum Boiss. Flor. Or. III 
(1875), p.74. -— Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. @Eg., p.83 no. 498. 
