140 RUBIACE^. 



IV. Bishop's Wood ! ; Irv. MSS. Stanmore. Scratch Wood, near Edg- 

 ware. Hampstead ; Pet. H. B. Cat. 30. Path by Julian Hill, 

 Harrow; Farrar. 



VI. Colney Hatch; Herb. Hardw. 1821; Bennett {v.s.). Forty Hill, 



Enfield. 

 VII. Cane ( = Ken) Wood!, Pulteney; Hill, 74. 



First record : Petiver, 1713. 



[A., arvensis, L. Asperula flore ccBruleo (Merrett). A. ccerulea (Budd.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 23. Syme E. B. iv. t. 662 (bis). IV. In the woods 

 near Hamstead ; Merrett, 1 ] . I much question whether this be 

 indigenous ; Budd. MSS. and Herb. The first notice of the plant's 

 occurrence in England. The specimen in Herb. Budd. vol. cxxi. fol. 3, 

 was gathered in Yorkshire.] 



GALIUM, Linn. 



317. G. cruciatum, With. Golden Mugwort. Crosswort. 

 Cruciata, Bod. (Ger., Johns., Blackst.). Valantia cruciata, L. (Mart.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 13. Syme E. B. iv. t. 647. 



Open hedgebanks ; rare. P. May — Jvily. 



I. Lane bet. Potter's Bar Station and North Mims Wood, 1856; Phyf. 

 N. S. i. 407. (Probably the station given in Fl. Herts. 138.) Hare- 

 field; Blackst. Fasc. 21. 

 II. Staines Moor Farm, Near Staines on the road to Hampton. Bet. 

 Sunbury and Walton Bridge. Abundant in a dry ditch by the 

 towing-path bet. Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge. 

 IV. Hampstead Heath ; Johns. Enum. In a wood bet. the Eiver Brent 

 and Finchley ; Irv. MSS. 

 VII. [Hampsteede Churchyarde and a pasture adjoining thereto, by a mill ; 

 Ger. 965, Park. Theat. 566, and others. It is lately lost in Hamp- 

 stead Churchyard ; Blackst. Sjpec. 16. Eefound there by Dr. Watson ; 

 Hill, 513.] 

 First record : Gerarde, 1597. 



318. G. Aparine, L. Cleavers. Goose-grass. 

 Aparine vidgaris, C. B. Pin. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 20. Syme E. B. iv. t. 658. 



Hedges and cultivated ground ; very common. A. June — September. 



In all the districts. 

 VII. Abundant in all the outskirts of town, and even in London itself. A 

 weed in most of the squares and on waste ground, but rarely grow- 

 ing to any size. 



First record: Blackstone, 1737. 



