82 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
in all the Bedstraw species, in the Woodruff 
slightly recurved. 
The Woodruff and Crosswort Bedstraw pre- 
sent good examples of what is called a corymé, 
the peduncles or flower-stalks being gradually 
shorter towards the top, so that the flowers are 
all on a level; a raceme is a spike with stalked 
flowers ; a fanicle is a branched raceme, as in 
many grasses. The Sherardia, on the other 
hand, produces its flowers in an wmdéel, the 
tiny flowers being on stalks which all spring 
from one point and reach about the same 
level. 
The genus Galiwm supplies very much of 
the decoration of the banks and hedgerows. 
Even the troublesome plant called Cleavers, 
or Goose-grass, G. Afarine, with its small white 
flower, leaves with marginal backward prickles, 
and fruit covered with hooked bristles, causing 
the burs to cling to the unwary wanderer’s 
clothes, is truly ornamental when climbing 
among otherwise bare thorns; whilst the 
golden yellow panicles of G. verum, on erect 
stems with whorls of dark green linear leaves, 
mingling on the same bank with G. mollugo 
the great Hedge Bedstraw, whose dense white 
