214 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Common in England and the South of Scotland, hut ahscnt in the 

 extreme North of the latter country. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Spring and Summer. 



Rootstock creeping. Stem dividing at the hase into numerous 

 weak slender hairy brandies, 6 inches to 3 feet long. Lowest 

 leaves small, in approximate whorls, increasing in size and becoming 

 more distant in the middle of the stem, and again decreasing and 

 becoming more approximate towards the apex, the largest -| to 1 

 inch long. Cymes in whorls of 4, few-flowered, the lateral flowers 

 mostly male, all rather pale-yellow, | inch across. Fruit about the 

 size of sago-grains, one of 'the two often abortive. Plant pale- 

 green, retaining its colour when dried, softly hairy. 



Mugioort. 



French, Gaillet Croisette. German, Kreuz Lalkraut. 



SPECIES III— GALIUM VERUM. Linn. 



Plate DCXLVIII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XV II. Tab. MCLXXXVII. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1494. 



Perennial. Stem stiff, erect, ascending or decumbent, branched 

 throughout, with the branches ascending. Leaves firm, 8 to 12 in 

 a whorl, linear-strapshaped or linear, 1-nerved, generally rough 

 above, pale and shortly pubescent beneath, reflexed at the margins, 

 mucronate. Flowers all perfect, yellow, arranged in a rather com- 

 pact leafy terminal panicle, with the branches longer than the 

 leaves from which they spring. Pedicels spreading after flowering. 

 Fruit smooth, glabrous. 



Var. a, Inteum. 



Flowers bright-yellow. Plant turning black when dried. 

 Var. 0, ochroleucum. 



G. decolorans? Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 19. 



Flowers whitish-yellow. Plant remaining greenish when dried. 



In pastures and hedge-banks, especially on sandy soils. Common, 

 and generally distributed. Var. /3 growing with var. a and Galium 

 elatum, on Deal Sandhills, Kent. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 

 Rootstock stoloniferous, producing numerous stems, more or 

 less erect from a decumbent base, 8 inches to 3 feet high, or when 



