TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Galium. 209 



edges, which are beset with small prickles, pointing forward. 

 Flowers abundant, milk-white, in terminal loose panicles. Seg- 

 ments of the cor. three-ribbed, each tipped with a tumid point, 

 not a bristle. Fruit small, often abortive. 



15. G. ajiglicum. Wall Bed-straw. 



Leaves about six in a whorl, lanceolate, pointed, fringed 

 with prickles. Stems straggling, rough. Flower-stalks 

 cloven. Fruit granulated, without hairs. 



G. ansjlicum. lluds. 69. Fl. Br. 1/9. Engl. Bot. v. 6. t. 384. 



Willem. Stell. 48. 

 G. parisiense. Rclh. 67. 

 Aparine minima. Raii Syn. 225. t. 9./. 1. 



On walls, and dry sandy ground. 



In Kent. Huds. In several parts of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cam- 

 bridgeshire, especially on old ruins. 



Annual. June, Julij. 



Root small Whole plant scarcely a span high, with many spread- 

 ing, square, slender and brittle !,tems, whose angles are rough 

 with deflexed bristles, as the little leaves are at their edges, and 

 sometimes other parts, with prickles directed forwards. The 

 lower leaves are obovate, coarsely reticulated with veins. FL 

 pale greenish yellow, not hair-pointed. Gerrnen imA. fruit rough 

 with mir}ute tubercles, but never observed to be hairy. In thi.9 

 last particular, and the dark-pur])le corolla, G. parisiense of Lin- 

 nsEus, G. Ufigiosum of DeCandolle, Ic. 8. t. 26, differs from our 

 plant ; nor does the fruit of the latter, though den.sely hairy, 

 seem to be warty. I liave G. anglicum, nevertheless, from Nar- 

 bonne, and it is G. divaricatum of Pourret. 



** Fruit bristlij. 



16. G. boreale. Cross-leaved Bed-straw. 



Leaves four in a whorl, ovate-lanceolate, three-ribbed, 

 smooth, with rough edges. Stem erect. Fruit rough with 

 hooked bristles. 



G boreale. Linn. Sp. PL lo6. TVilld. v. 1.59.5. R Br. 180. EngL 

 Bot.v.'Z.t. 105. Hook. Scot. 53. FL Dan. 1. 1024. Ehrh.Herb. 92. 

 Willem. StelL 31. 



G. n.722. HaU. Hist. v.\.3\S. 



Mollugo raontana erecta quadrifolia. RaiiSyn. 224. 



Rubia pratensis leevis, acuto folio BnuJi. Prodr. 145. 



R. erecta quadrifolia. Bauh.Hist. v 3. p. 2. 716. f- 



In rocky shady places, by rivers and l.ikes, in the north of England, 



and in Scotland, not uncommon. 

 Perennial. July. 



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