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prickles. Leaves firm, 4 to 8 in a whorl, oblaneeolate-strapsliaped 

 or linear-acuminate and mucronate at the apex, 1-nerved, glabrous, 

 strongly ciliated at the margins with recurved prickles. Flowers 

 all perfect, white, in small rather lax corymbose cymes disposed 

 in a narrow corymbose-topped panicle; branches spreading- 

 ascending, much longer than the leaves from the axils of which they 

 spring. Lobes of the corolla acute. Emit glabrous, shagreened. 

 Plant remaining green in drying. 



In ditches and wet places. Rather common, and generally 

 distributed. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Extremely like small rough states of the preceding, but a less 

 straggling plant, with the leaves much firmer in texture and 

 acuminate, not blunt ; the deflexed prickles on the stem and leaves 

 are much stronger than in any of the forms of the preceding, the 

 leaves firmer, narrower, and more numerous. The flowers are 

 smaller, the barren branches fewer, and not forming dense tufts, 

 and with 6 instead of 4 leaves in each whorl. The fruit is smaller 

 and rather more distinctly shagreened ; the panicle much narrower 

 and with fewer flowers. The leaves, both in G. palustre and 

 G. uliginosum, have a second row of prickles on the upper surface 

 near the margin ; in this inner row the prickles point forwards 

 instead of backwards, as those in the marginal row. 



Rough Marsh Bedstraw. 



French, Gaillet Fangeux. German, Morast Lahkraut. 



SPECIES X.-GALIUM ANGLICUM. Huds. 



Plate DCLVI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XVII. Tab. MCXCVI. Fig. 5. 



G. Parisieuse [Linn.), var. anglicum, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 197. Benth. 



Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 276. 

 G. Parisiense, var. leiocarpum, Tausch. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 63. 

 G. Parisiense, var. nudum, Gr. <fe Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 42. 



Annual. Stems spreading, diffuse, generally much branched, 

 rarely erect and solitary, slender, glabrous, with small hooked 

 prickles on the angles, without barren shoots. Leaves firm, 5 to 7 

 (generally 6), in a whorl, oblanceolate-strapshaped or linear-ellip- 

 tical-strapshaped, acuminate and mucronate at the apex, glabrous, 

 rough on the margins with small prickles pointing forwards. 

 Elowers greenish- white, in few-flowered corymbose cymes combined 

 into a narrow elongate lax panicle ; the branches spreading or 



