ON A YORKSHIRE GALIUM ALLIED TO G. ERECTUM. 291 
and entangled mass. Leaves on the primary stem seven or eight in 
a whorl, spreading at right angles from the stem, or reflexed. Well- 
developed leaves of the primary stem about a line broad, the broad- 
est part being about two-thirds of the distance from the base to 
the apex, narrowed gradually from this towards the base, and slightly 
also towards the mucronate apex, in colour grass-green, the edges 
rough with forward-pointing prickles, the midrib opaque, or in the 
younger leaves translucent, Branches of the stem varying from erecto- 
patent to divergent at right angles, in luxuriant plants even the lower 
ones producing flowers, the separate panicles narrowly pyramidal and 
not numerously flowered, and the whorls of bracts of the upper branches 
often half as long as the peduncles they subtend. Lobes of the 
corolla spreading or reflexed, in colour almost pure white or slightly 
cream-coloured, or tinged with pink, broadly lanceolate, with an apicu- 
lus, in well-developed flowers one-sixteenth of an inch broad by one- 
eighth deep. Styles varying much in adhesion, free to the base, or 
united up to the middle in the same plant. Fruit-pedicels always erecto- 
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patent, the angle not exceeding forty-five degrees, the pedicel two to 
four times as long as the fully matured fruit. Fruits oval, beautifully 
Shagreened under a lens, but smooth to the touch. 
G. erectum is a plant I have never seen growing, but, judging from 
the descriptions and a good series of dried specimens, it has slender 
erect stems one to two feet high, branched but little from their lower 
part, the lower branches of the panicle all placed above the middle of 
the stem, comparatively short and but slightly leafy, and not spreading 
at an angle of more than forty-five degrees, In the Cleves plant the 
Stems are longer and more robust, spreading vaguely or at most loosely 
ascending, with such an abundance of long leafy branches from their 
lower part that the stems form a tangled closely-interlacing mass. 
“ng leafy branches, which spring at a right angle from the lower 
part of the stem, often bear small panicles of flowers, so that the main 
Panicle is much more diffused over the whole plant than in erectum, 
and remarkably mixed up amongst the leaves. In all my specimens of 
Stine erectum the leaves are erecto-patent, and so thick that, as the 
descriptions usually insist, the midrib is opaque. In the Cleves plant 
the leaves are as in Mollugo, either spreading or reflexed, and the 
midrib, especially in the young leaves, is translucent. In the shape 
of the lea 
ves, the direction of the fruii-pedicels, and characters of the 
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