184 GALIUM. [ctASS IV. OllDEll I. 



Leaves about eight in a whorl, linear-lanceolate, bristle-pointed, 

 hairy; panicle loose, branched, spreading; segments ol the co- 

 rolla acute. 



English Botany, t. 74. English Flora, vol. 5. p. 206. Lindley, Sy- 

 nopsis, p. 129. Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 67. 



Root with slender, creeping underground stems. Stems erect, nu- 

 merous, branched, from four to twelve inches high, square, slender, 

 varying from quite smooth and shining to thickly clothed with short, 

 pale, rigid hairs ; the hairiness, however, is limited to the lower part of 

 the stem ; the upper, as well as the branches, quite smooth, except 

 occasionally a few hairs about the joints. Leaves about eight in a 

 whorl, crowded in the lower part of the stem, lanceolate, tapering at 

 the base, the point acute, terminating in a pale bristle, the margins 

 somewhat recurved ; the lower leaves scattered, or thickly clothed with 

 short hairs, the hairiness diminishing in the upper whorls of leaves, 

 which are not unfrequently quite smooth, and sometimes the whole 

 plant is altogether free from hairs ; at other times the leaves may be 

 observed with a few hairs on the margins and towards the extremity, 

 which are either spreading or pointed downwards. Inflorescence in 

 terminal and lateral branched, spreading panicles. Flowers white, 

 with acute, three-nerved segments. Fruit small, globular, smooth, 

 and granulated, of a dark-brown colour. 



Habitat. Kendal, Westmorland. Matlock Bath : on the rocks and 

 crevices of the walls opposite Saxton's Hotel, &c., plentiful ; Ashwood, 

 near Buxton, and other places in Derbyshire Mr. Marnock. Hab- 

 bie's How, in the Pentland Hills ; Strathblane Hills ; and the lower 

 rocks of Clove, in Scotland G. and D. Don. Rocks at Mucruss, 

 Killarney, near Corrofin, and at Rock Forest, County Clare, Ireland. 

 Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 



This plant is extremely variable in its hairiness. Some specimens 

 which I collected this last summer (1836) at Matlock, have the whole 

 of their leaves thickly clothed with hairs; other specimens have the 

 leaves hairy only on the margins ; while others again are quite free 

 from the least pubescence : in other respects, however, they entirely 

 agree with those plants 1 have from Habbie's How and other places. 



11. G. Parisien'se, Linn. (Fig. 232.) Wall Bed-straw. Leaves about 

 six in a whorl, lanceolate, bristle- pointed, rough on the margins; 

 flowers in small axillary clusters, with slender spreading branches; 

 stems slender, spreading, rough. 



Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 67. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 130. 

 G. gra'cile, Mertens and Roch. 



. Fruit hispid. G. Paris'iense, Linn. 



P. Fruit smooth, slightly tuberculated. G. Angli'cum, Hudson. 

 English Botany, t. 384. English Flora, vol. i. p. 209. 



