216 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



cuspidate. Fruit glabrous, not tuberculatc. Plant pale- (glaucous ?) 

 green. 



On the banks of the AYater of Leith, near Slateford, about 

 three miles from Edinburgh. Mr. G. Don. 



Scotland ? Perennial. Autumn. 



Stem apparently about 18 inches long, bluntly quadrangular. 

 Leaves 8 in a whorl on the stem, 6 on the branches, stiff, with a 

 rather thick central nerve, all curving upwards, 4 to f inch long, 

 with bristles pointing forwards on the margins which are revolute. 

 Cymes all stalked ; peduncles at the extremity of the stem and in 

 axils of the upper leaves naked at the base, with about 3 primary 

 divisions arranged in a sub-umbellate manner : the cymes combined 

 form a very lax panicle. Elowers ^ inch across, perfectly rotate, with 

 long narrow segments. 



Of this I have seen only the single specimen from Don contained 

 in Smith's Herbarium. I am unable to identify it with any of the 

 continental species ; from G. cinereum and G. erectum it is certainly 

 distinct ; it has quite the habit, stem, leaves and inflorescence of 

 G. glaucum, Lin7i. (Asperula galinoides, Bieh.), but the flowers 

 have not the distinct though short campanulate tube which distin- 

 guishes those of that species. It must be considered as a very 

 doubtful native, as no one except Don has found it. 



Diffuse Bedstraw. 



SPECIES v.— G ALIUM MOLLUGO. Lirin. 

 Plates DCXLIX. DCXLIX. {his) DCL. 



Perennial. Stem weak, decumbent or ascending, much branched 

 throughout ; branches ascending or spreading, glabrous or hairy. 

 Leaves 6 to 8 in a whorl, rather firm, straj)shaped-oblanceolate or 

 elliptical-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, mucronate, 1-nerved, gla- 

 brous or finely pubescent beneath, spreading or reflexed. Plowers 

 all perfect, white, in rather lax cymes, arranged in a lax panicle, 

 with ascending or spreading branches, much longer than the leaves 

 from the axils of which they spring. Corolla-lobes cuspidate. 

 Pruit glabrous, irregularly shagreened but not tuberculatc. Plant 

 green, not turning black in drying. 



