482 253. Galium. 42. RUBIACE^. Blex.caL 



a fine red; flowers antispasmodic, with alum dye a fine 

 yellow, and coagulate milk when boiled in it. 



2. Galium cruciatum. Crossed cheese-renmt. 

 Stem simple at top, hairy ; leaves 4 in a whirl, ovate, 



hirsute, 3-ribbed ; peduncle 2-leaved ; flowers polygamous ; 

 corolla 4-cut. 



Cruciata, Uan Syn. 223, 1 ; Ger.em. 1123, 1. 

 Cruciata vulgaris, Park. 566. 

 Valantia cruciata, Lin. S. P. 149. 

 Galium Cruciata, Scop. Cam. 1, 100. 

 Crosswort. Mugweed. 



Woods and hedges ; perennial ; May. 

 Stem weak ; leaves soft, light green, deflected when in 

 fruit I flowers corymbose. 



3. Galium spurium. Bastard cheese-rennet. 

 Stem bent back, prickly ; leaves 6 or 8 in a whirl, edge 



prickly; prickles bent back ; peduncles cymose, axillary ; fruit 

 upright, entirely smooth ; seed kidneyshape. 



Galium spurium, Lin. S. P. 154. 



Fields ; annual ; June and July. 



Corolla greenish ; ovary quite smooth ; fruit upright, or 

 not bent back. 



4. Galium tricorne. Three-horned cheese-rennet. 

 Stem trailing, simple ; leaves 6 or 8 in a whirl, lanceo- 

 late ; edge bent back, prickly ; peduncles axillary, S-flowered ; 



fruit drooping, tubercular. 



Aparine semine laeviore, Raii Syn. 225, 2. 

 Aparine laevis. Park. 567. 

 (Galium spurium, Huds. Fl. Angl. 68. 

 Galium tricorne, With. Bot. Arr, 153. 

 Valantia spuria, Persoon Syn. 129. 



Fields; annual; July. 



b. Corolla white; fruit hald^ not tuber cled. 



5. Galium palustre. Marsh cheese-rennei. 

 Stem depressed, 4-sided, above branched, smooth ; leaves 



4 or 6 in a whirl, reverse ovate, blunt, unequally. 



MoUugo vulgatior minor, Raii Syn, 224, 2; Park. 565. 

 Galium album, Ger.em. 1126,2. 

 Galium palustre, Lin. S. P. 153. 

 White ladies' bcdstraw. 



Fields and pastures ; perennial ; July. 

 Leaves mostly rough on the edges j peduncles umbeUed, 

 3-forked, 3-flowercd. 



