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GREAT HEDGE BEDSTRAW. Galium mollugo. 



Plate 1, fig. 19. 

 Flowers white. Leaves eight in a whirl. Fruit smooth. 



Growing in a straggling manner over bushes. The flowers 

 are collected in little tufts, near the top of the various branches. 

 Leaves eight in a whirl, of a long oval shape, rough at the edges, 

 and pointed. The petals are also pointed, by which this species 

 is directly known from the two former; besides which the 

 flowers are in closer bundles, and larger. The fruit is quite 

 smooth, and the stems of the plant very long. 



GOOSEGRASS BEDSTRAW. Galium aparine, 



Plate 1, fig. 20. 



Flowers white. Leaves eight or ten in a whirl. Fruit prickly. 

 The Goosegrass, Clivers, Cleavers, or Catchweed, for it is 

 known by all these names, struggles among the bushes of the 

 hedge -rows. It is neither elegant nor useful ; and yet shows 

 one of those beautiful contrivances for the welfare of the plant, 

 which in botany are so often presented to our notice ; reminding 

 us at every stem we take, that " He who made them is divine." 

 The seeds are covered with curiously-formed hooks, by which 

 they adhere to the skins of animals, or any thing else that touches 

 them, and thus are carried along, and the plant distributed to a 

 distance. Some of its names arise from this property, and 

 because young geese are fond of it, it is often called Goosegrass. 

 The stem is square, woolly at the joints, prickly, long, and 

 trailing, with spear-shaped f rough leaves. The flowers very 

 small, and only one or two grow together. 



O. S. Cross-wort Bedstraw, a yellow flower with four leaves together ; 

 Marsh Bedstraw, a white flowered kind, which like the last is often found; 

 Upright Bedstraw, Grey Bedstraw, Bearded Bedstraw, Mountain Bed- 

 straw, Wall Bedstraw, Warty Fruited Bedstraw, Rough Fruited, and 

 Smooth Fruited Corn Bedstraw, all white and very rare ; and Northern 

 Bedstraw, also white and rare. 



CORNEL TREE. CORNUS. 



DOGWOOD, OR COMMON CORNEL TREE. Cor nus sanguine a. 



Plate 2, fig. I. 



This conrmon shrub grows very slowly, seldom reaching 

 ten feet in height, though it lives so long, and its wood is so 



