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branches; flowers white. — Banks and pastures; not common. — 

 Fl. June and September. Perennial. 



5. G. Molli'igo (Hedge Bedstraw). — Stem ascending, square, 

 thickened at the nodes, smooth or hairy ; leaves 6 — 8 in a whorl, 

 oblong, with a bristly point and weak bristles on the margins; 

 cyme with the lower branches horizontal or reflexed ; flowers 

 white. — Common everywhere in England, but rare in Scotland 

 and Ireland. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



6. G. saxdtile (Heath Bedstraw). — A small, prostrate, much- 

 branched species ; stem smooth ; 

 leaves about 6 in a whorl, obovate, 

 mucronate, fringed with a few 

 prickles, which point forwards ; 

 cymes numerous, small, compact; 

 flowers white. — Fleaths ; abundant. 

 — Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



7. G. dsperiim (Mountain Bed- 

 straw). — A similar but more erect 

 and stiff species ; leaves 6 — 8 in a 

 whorl, linear, awned, with prominent 

 midrib and marginal hairs, not 

 bristles. — Limestone hills ; rare. — • 

 Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



8. G. palusire {Water Bedstraw). 

 — Stems I — 3 feet high, weak, 

 straggling, branched, smooth or 

 rough with recurved prickles ; leaves 

 4 — 6 in a whorl, blunt, linear, or 

 on dry ground, oblong, frequently 

 unequal, shining, with or without 

 rough edges ; flowers in loose, 

 spreading panicles, white. — Watery 

 places ; common. — Fl. June — 

 August. Perennial. 



9. G. iiligindsiim (Rough Marsh 

 Bedstraw). — A smaller species ; stems slender, brittle, about a foot 

 high, with recurved prickles on the angles ; leaves 6 — 8 in a whorl, 

 narrow, brisde-pointed, with recurved prickles on the margins ; 

 cymes few-flowered. — Watery places ; common. — Fl. July — 

 August. Perennial. 



■^■^■^ Leaves i-veined : cymes mostly axillary: flowers white: fruit 

 hispid or tubercled : annual. 



10. G. dnglicum (Wall Bedstraw). — A small, spreading, slender, 



GALIUM APARfxE {Goose-gross). 



