5'2 TETRAND. MONOG. 



ing forwards, panicle much branched trichotomous, stem gla- 

 brous flaccid. E. B. t. 1972. 



HAB. Fish-wives Causeway, near Portobello, Maugh. Fl. July. If. . 



Larger than G. uliginosum, with which it agrees in habit and shape 

 of the leaves. Fruit .smooth. 



8. G.diffusum (spreading smooth-stalked Bed-straw), (f leaves 

 about S in a whorl linear aristate glabrous their margins ob- 

 soletely serrated" (rough with prickles pointing forwards), 

 " panicle corymbose, stems diffuse very much branched." 

 D. Don. MSS. ined. 



HAH. Near Kinnaird, Angus-shire, G. Don. Fl. . If. .' 

 Stews many, diffuse, very much branched, from a span to a foot 

 high, angular, glabrous, shining, swelling at the joints. Leaves 

 8 in a whorl, linear, plane, glabrous, aristate at the point, with the 

 margin obsoletely serrulate. Branches and branchlets opposite, 

 subdecussate, striated. Flowers corymbose, white. Fruit glabrous. 

 Very like G. austriacum of Jacq., but differing in the above cha- 

 racter." Don's MSS. 



9. G. yerrucosum (warty -fruited Bed-straw}, leaves 6 in a 

 whorl lanceolate their margins rough witli prickles pointing- 

 forwards, peduncles axillary 3-flowered, fruit warted droop- 

 ing. G. Don's Fuse. 5, 103 (G. Tricorne). E., B. t. 2173. 



HAB. Corn-fields Carse of Cowrie, and near Forfar, G. Don. FL 

 July. 0. 



Prickles of the stem deflexed. The two lateral Jlowers on each pe- 

 duncle sterile, falling away and leaving their pedicels, one on each 

 side the large warted fruit, which together with the marginal 

 prickles of the leaves pointing forwards essentially distinguish this 

 from the English tricorne. 



10. G. spurium (smooth-fruited Corn Bed-straw), leaves 6 8 

 in a whorl their margins as well as the stem rough with reflex- 

 eel prickles, peduncles axillary many-flowered, fruit smooth 

 spreading. E. B. t.\S7\. 



HAB. Corn-fields ne&r Forfar, rare, G. Don. Fl. July. . 



Habit of the preceding. Leaves hispid on the upper surface. Pe- 

 duncles much longer than the leaves, bearing several flowers. 

 Partial ^flower-stalks not bent back with the fruit, which is smooth. 



11. G. pusillum (least Bed-straw)^ " leaves about 8 in a whorl 

 linear-lanceolate, mucronate entire subpubescent, peduncles 

 dichotomous, fruit very smooth" (Sm.). E. B. t. 74. 



HAB. Habbies How, in the Pentland hills, and lower rocks of Clova, 



Angus-shire, G. Don. S-trathblane hills N. of Glasgow, D. Don. 

 Fl. July, Aug. I/ . 



I confess myself to be but imperfectly acquainted with this species, 

 and have seen no Scotch specimens. Mine under this name, from 

 Ireland, are totally free from pubescence, and have the leaves very 



' closely imbricated all the way up, in which particular it does not 



