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On the Occurrence of Galium montanum of Villars in Yorkshire. 
By Joun G. Baker. 
During a recent visit to my valued friend John Tatham of 
Settle, we had the good fortune to meet with another Galium 
unreported as British, nearly allied to G. commutatum, published 
in this number of the ‘ Phytologist,’ viz. G. montanum of 
Villars, first described in the second volume of the ‘ Histoire des 
Plantes de Dauphiné’ (1787), the G. /eve of Thuillier and other 
authors. It grows at an elevation of between two and three 
hundred yards above the level of the sea, along with abundance 
of G. pusillum, amongst the débris below the range of steep 
limestone cliffs known by the name of Giggleswick Scars, that 
mark the line of the immense dislocation called by geologists 
the “Craven Fault,” for about a couple of miles westward of the 
town of Settle. The station is already known to botanists as 
a locality for several rare plants, of which Epipactis ovalis and 
Mieracium hypocheridoides are perhaps the most remarkable. 
As in G. pusillum, the stems of this species form masses, matted 
and densely interlaced, but the smaller proportion which the 
panicle bears to the leafy portion of the stem gives the tufts a 
different appearance to those of the former species; and besides, 
montanum is two or three weeks later in season than the other, 
and was still partly in flower at the time of my visit, when the 
corollas of pusillum had fallen, and the seeds were mostly drawing 
near to perfection. Such being the case, and as it possesses re- 
cognizable distinctions, I do not think that, although the plants 
of this genus afford scope for considerable diversity of opinion as 
regards their limitations, we shall incur much risk of error in 
receiving it as a distinct species into our British lists. 
i have endeavoured below to select the best diagnostic cha- 
racters of the four supposed species of the section to which it 
belongs. Be it observed that Grenier and Godron, mostly fol- 
lowing Jordan’s ‘Plantes nouvelles, rares, ou critiques, enu- 
merate for France no less than twenty-one. 
G. saxatile. Stems procumbent or slightly ascending, smooth, 
glabrous. Leaves finely nerved, clothed on the border with a 
row of prickles pomting forward; lower obovate, upper oblong- 
lanceolate, suddenly mucronate; about six in a whorl. Panicle 
much branched ; fructiferous pedicels erecto-patent ; lobes of the 
