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I am much mistaken. The petals are M'hite, 

 spreading, and acute. The partial umbels 

 are broad. The general one has very rarely 

 one or two (leaves of an involucrum ?). 



3. Galium parisicnse {uUginosum), with 

 a square, furrowed, procumbent stem. The 

 leaves are lanceolate, broader towards the 

 extremity, acute, armed with little prickles 

 as well as the stem. The flower is not tu- 

 bular, nor the seeds prickly. The latter 

 are white, as is also the flower. Four 

 leaves grow together in the lower part of 

 the stem, but in the upper part six. Under 

 the little umbels of flowers are either four 

 or two. 



4. Gal'ium album (boreale). Stem square, 

 erect, branched, especially in the upper 

 part. Leaves four together, sessile, rather 

 broader towards their base, three-nerved, 

 slightly reflexed at the margin. There are 

 two leaves to each of the lesser umbels. 

 Seeds two, roundish, joined into a didy- 

 mous shape, downy. Flower not tubular. 

 5. Criiciata, if I am not mistaken. (G«- 



