200 FLOWERS OF THE ROADSIDES AND HEDGES 
root, seeking support from the surrounding herbage. The stems are 
angular, four-sided, and rough, both the margins of the leaves and 
angles of the stems being rough. The leaves are 6-8 in a whorl, 
lance-shaped, coarsely hairy, and the midrib or central vein is also 
rough below, and the prickles are more or less general and turned 
back. The joints are finely hairy. The plant is a hook-climber. 
The flowers, which very quickly fall, are minute and white. The 
cymes are axillary, and contain up to nine flowers, borne on spread- 
ing flower-stalks. The flower-stalks are turned back in fruit. The 
rounded fruits are very rough and roughly hairy, purple in tint, and 
very clinging, a character implied by the second Greek name and the 
English one. 
The stem may reach a length of 3 ft. or more. It is in flower from 
May to August. The plant is annual and propagated by seeds. 
Here, as in other Galia, the flowers are white, but they are small, 
and, though they have honey, which is unconcealed, they are less 
likely to be visited by insects than any of the others. Usually the 
flowers are hidden away in a tangle of herbage, and the flower must 
rely on self-pollination for the perfection of its large and numerous 
fruits. The anthers and stigma are close together, when pollinated 
probably pollen is carried by the insects’ feet. 
The fruits are hooked and catch in the coats of animals and are 
thus dispersed, being distributed by the agency of animals. 
A sand soil suits Cleavers or Goose-grass best, and it is mainly a 
sand-loving plant, but it will grow also on clay and is a clay-loving 
plant, or more frequently on sandy loam. 
Three little fungi, Puccznza Galiz, Peronospora calotheca, Pseudo- 
peziza repanda, grow on it. It is also galled by Z77zophyes gala. The 
Humming-bird Hawk Moth, J/acroglossa steUlatarum, feeds upon it. 
It is called Airess, Airif, Airup, Aparine, Bedstraw, Beggar Lice, 
Beggar Weed, Bleedy Tongues, Blind Tongue, Bur, Bur-head, Bur- 
weed, Catch-rogue, Catch-weed, Chickweed, Claiton, Claver-grass, 
Cleavers, Cleden, Cleeiton, Cleggers, Clever-grass, Clider, Cling-rascal, 
Clitch Buttons, Clite, Clitheren, Clits, Cliver, Cly, Clyders, Errif, 
Geckdor, Gux Grass, Gentleman’s Tormentors, Goosebill, Goose- 
grass, Goose-heiriffe, Gooseshare, Goose Tongue, Gosling Grass, 
Gosling Scrotch, Gosling Weed, Grip-grass, Gull-grass, Gye, Hair- 
weed, Harif, Haritch, Harvest Lice, Hedge-burs, Jack-in-the-hedge, 
Lizzy-run-up-the-hedge, Robin-in-the-hedge, Robin-run-up-the-dyke, 
Soldiers’ Buttons, Stick-a-back, Stickle Back, Sweethearts’ Tivers, 
Tongue Bleeder, Withers Pail, Willy-run-hedge. 
