TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 205 



Valantia Aparine. Linn. Sp. PI. 1491. Willd.v.A. 950 j with 



faulty synonyms. Schrad. Spicil. 55. t. l.f. 3. IVillem. Stell. 87. 



Aparine semine coriandri saccharati. Tourn. Inst. 114. Vaill. Par 



t.4.f.3,b. 

 A. minor saxatilis, verrucoso semine. Cupan. Panph. ed. \.v 1 



t.2l. 



In cornfields, rare. 



In the Carse of Govvrie, and near Forfar, Scotland. Mr. G. Don. 

 Near Malton, Yorkshire. Mr. R. Miller. 



Annual. June — August. 



Root slender, reddish when dried. Stems several, spreading, a 

 span long, slightly branched, rough at the 4 angles with reflexed 

 prickles, while similar ones on the margins of the leaves all point 

 forward. Fl. small, pale yellow. Fruit a large double globe, 

 beset with pyramidal warts, which give it the form of coriander 

 comfits. The two lateral^^owers generally have no pistil. 



10. G. tricor?ie. Rough-fruited Corn Bed-straw. 

 Three-flowered Goose-grass. 



Leaves about eight in a whorl, lanceolate, with reflexed mar- 

 ginal prickles, like those on the stem. Stalks axillary, 

 three-flowered. Fruit sharply granulated, drooping. 



G. tricorne. With. ed. 2. 153. Fl. Br. 176. Engl. Bot. v. 23. M 641 . 

 Relh. 56. 



G. spurium. Fluds. 68. With. 190. Sibth. 59. Abbot 33. 



G. n. 725. Hall. Hi&t. u. 1 . 3 19. Davall. 



Valantia Aparine. Mart. Rust. t. 122. 



Aparine semine Iseviore. Rail Syn. 225. 



A. semine Isevi. Vaill. Par. 14. t. 4./. 3 ; except b. 



A. coriandri semine, foliis asperis. Cupan. Panph. ed. 2. t. 18. 



A. foliis brevioribus, et semine laeviore. Moris, v. 3. 332. 



In dry chalky fields, not common. 



In the isle of Thanet, in Surrey, and near Stamford. Hudson. In 

 Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Norfolk, and the isle 

 of Wight. Fl. Br. and Engl. Bot. 



Annual. July. 



Root small. Steins several, simple, weak, with four rough angles, 

 whose prickles are deflexed, as in the last. The edges and ribs 

 of the leaves are beset with similar prickles, all curved down- 

 wards, not, as in the preceding, directed towards the point. 

 This invariable character might have prevented Haller, Willde- 

 now, and others, from confounding the two species, which in- 

 deed differ in other respects. The powers of the present are 

 greenish white, all three on each stalk generally perfect iu 

 structure, though seldom all fertile. The fruit is a double globe, 

 covered with bristly igranulations, and looks as if it had been 

 shaven with a razor. , 



