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SPECIES VL— GALIUM SAXATILE. Linn. 



Plate DCLI. 



Rekk Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCXCIV. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2077. 



G. Hercynicum, W&ig. D. C. Prod. Vol. IV. p. 598. 



Perennial. Stems weak, decumbent or prostrate, branched 

 throughout, especially towards the base, where there arc very- 

 numerous prostrate barren shoots ; flowering branches ascending, 

 glabrous. Leaves mostly 6 in a whorl, rather firm, obovate 

 on the barren shoots, oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate on the 

 flowering branches, abruptly mucronate, 1-nerved, glabrous, ciliated 

 with small prickles pointing forwards. Flowers white, in compact 

 cymes arranged in a rather lax panicle ; branches ascending, much 

 longer than the leaves from the axils of which they spring. Lobes 

 of the corolla not cuspidate. Fruit glabrous, granulated with 

 small tubercles. Plant turning black in drying. 



On barren heaths and commons, and in upland pastures, 

 borders of woods, and on rocks. Very common, and generally 

 distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Plant growing in rather dense tufts from the great number 

 of short prostrate barren branches produced at the base of the 

 stem : on these barren branches the leaves are small, 4 to 6 in a 

 whorl, l^to J inch long, and the internodes short. On the flowering 

 stem the internodes are elongated, the leaves are 6 in a whorl, 

 longer, narrower, and less enlarged towards the apex. Flowers 

 Yo inch across, pure white, in few-flowered compact cymes ; fruit- 

 pedicels divaricate. Fruit the size of the grains in a fig, 

 roughened all over with minute acute tubercles. Plant glabrous, 

 or nearly so. 



Seath Bedstraw. 



French, Gaillet des Eochers. German, Felsm Labhraut. 



SPECIES VII.-G A LIU M SYLVESTRE. Poll 



Plate DCLII. 



Rdch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCXCIII. Fig. 3. 

 G. pusillum, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 74 (non Linn.). 



Perennial. Stems slender, weak, spreading- ascending, slightly 

 branched throughout, with few barren shoots, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent below. Leaves 6 to 8 in a whorl, firm, linear-oblanceolate or 



