et. / 
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290 ON A YORKSHIRE GALIUM ALLIED TO G, ERECTUM. 
magnis, latitudine fere duplo longioribus, subprismaticis, fasci superiore 
profunde suleata quasi biloba, suleo pubescente una vel plurimis glan- 
dulis munito, spinis validis e mammillarum apice nascentibus, citrinis 
v. ssepe albescentibus, dein luteis v. rubris, brunneo- vel nigro-sphace- 
latis, interioribus 8 parum reflexis, centrali uno longissimo robustissimo 
recto, bacca elongata (2 poll. longa) pallide lutea. 
Mammillaria Scheerii, Mühlenpf. in Otto and Dietrich’s Allg. Gar- 
tenzeitung, 1847, p. 97, cum icon.; Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. P | 
133; Scheer, in Seem. Bot. Herald, p. 289; Engelmann, in Emory* 
Boundary Survey (Cacteæ), p. 10.— Tab. nostr. n. X. 3 
Groce. Distr. Around Chihuahua (Potts /), where it grows in red 
sandy loam; sandy ridges in the valley of the Rio Grande, from El 
Pasco to the Cañon; also at Eagle Spring and on prairies at the 
of the Limpia (Charles Wright). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. 
Representing Mammillaria Scheerii, from a living plant formerly in the garden 1 
of the Prince of Salm-Dyck.—Fig. l. A mamma. 2. Diagram, showing the dispo — 
sition of the spines. 3. Longitudinal section ofa flower. Fig. 1, slightly magnified. ; 
ON A YORKSHIRE GALIUM ALLIED TO @. ZRZCTUM 
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By J. G. BAKER, ESQ. 
I have found this summer a Galium allied to G, Mollugo and oe 
tum, especially to the latter, but which presents points of difference — 
which appear to be noteworthy. I obtained it near à fi get 
called Cleves, four miles east of Thirsk, upon the borders of a steeply 1 
sloping cornfield, where not long ago was a bank of brake, and bram- 
ble, and furze, the elevation of the locality being about, 500 feet abore 
the sea; and Gormire, the only lake, if lake it may be called, of No 
East Yorkshire, being not above 100 yards distant. ‘ 
The following are the characters of this plant ;— The stems are pt | 
feet long, quadrangular, slightly thickened at the nodes, SE 
throughout or somewhat hairy below, prostrate, and rooting 3" ~ 
base, spreading, or loosely ascending above, with numerous §P gut 
ing branches from the lower part, so that the stems form a tue 
