22i! ENGLISH BOTANY. 



spreading-asccnding, longer than tlic leaves from wLicli they spring. 

 Fruit glabrous, granulated with small tubercles. Plant turning 

 black in drying. 



On old walls and dry sandy places. Rare. Apparently con- 

 fined to the counties of Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cam- 

 bridge. 



England. Annual. Summer. 



Plant branching from the crown of the root, the stems weak, 

 ascending, 4 inches to 1 foot long, rarely when small with a single 

 erect stem. Leaves ^ to ^ inch long, at first spreading, afterwards 

 reflexed. Elowers extremely small and inconspicuous. Eruit 

 smaller than in any other of the British species. 



This appears to be a sub-species of G. parisiense, the typical 

 form of which has the fruit clothed with hairs curving inwards ; 

 but this hispid-fruited form has not occurred in Britain. 



Wall Bedstraio. 

 French, Gaillet des Anglais. German, Parisisches Lahhraut. 



SPECIES XI.-G A LIU M VAILLANTIL U.C. 

 Plate DCLYII. 

 Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCXCVII. Fig. 3. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2480. 



G. spurium, var. Vaillautii, Reich. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 160. Hook & Am. 



Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 198. Gr. k Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 44. 

 G. Aparine, var. Vaillantii, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 3G3. Benth. 



Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 277. 



Annual. Stems branched principally towards the base, diffuse, 

 trailing, glabrous, except sometimes immediately above the nodes, 

 rough on the angles with deflexed prickles. Leaves 6 to 8 in a whorl, 

 linear-strapshaped, slightly attenuated tow^ards the base, acuminate, 

 clothed with short distant hairs, very rough on the margins with 

 hooked prickles curved backwards. Elowers w^hitish -green, 3 to 9 in 

 axillary sub-umbellate cymes, wdth 2 or 3 bracts wdiere the pedicels 

 spring from the peduncle; peduncles divaricate, straight, rather 

 longer than the leaves from which they spring; pedicels 

 straight, not recurved after flowering. Eruit blackish-olive, of 

 2 grains about the size of rape-seed or less, finely shagreened, 

 thickly clothed with white hairs abruptly hooked at the point. 



In cultivated fields. . Ptare. About Saffron Walden, Essex. 



England. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 

 Stem G inches to 3 feet long, with numerous shorter branches 



