XLVIII. 



GALIUM APARINE. 



Cleavers or Goose-grass. 



Class IV. Tetrandria. — Order 1. Monogynia. 



Nat. Ord. Rubiace,^. 



Gen. Char. Calyx an obsolete superior margin. Co- 

 rolla rotate, four-cleft. Fruit a dry two-lobed, indehis- 

 cent pericarp. 



Spec. Char. Leaves six to eight in a whorl, lanceolate ; 

 the margin and midrib hispid with reflexed bristles. 

 Stem weak, hispid at the angles. Fruit hispid. 



S Y N O N Y M E S . 



Greek TecXiov ; A-ptaptr/i. Dioscorides. 



^Aparine vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 334. 

 Latin 'Apariue. Ger. Em. 1122. Rati. Syn. 225. 



(^ Galium Aparine. Lin. Sp. PI. 157. 

 French .... Grateron ; Rieble ; Philantrope. 

 ItuUan .... Aparine ; Speronella. 

 Spanish .... Aspergula ; Amor del Hortelano. 

 Portuguese . Amor do Hortelano. 

 German .... Klebekraut ; Kletterndes Labkraut. 



Butch Kleef'kruid ; Klet ; Klatte-Klaauwen. 



Danish .... Snerre ; Snerregraess. 

 Swedish.... Snarjegras; Snarpegras. 

 Polish .... Spona ; Ostrzyka. 



Russ Smolnaja Trawa. 



Hungarian. Ragadaly ; Ragado-fu. 



Description. — The roots are annual, slender, somewhat four- 

 sided, and furnished with a few short delicate fibres. The 

 stems are weak, trailing, jointed, quadrangular, very rough at 

 the angles with reflexed bristles, and from two to six feet long, 

 straggling among bushes. The leaves are plane, lanceolate, hairy 



