220 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



narrowly strapshaped or linear-acuminate, mucronate, 1 -nerved, 

 glabrous, or the lower ones with short stiff hairs, commonly ciliated 

 with small prickles or hairs directed outwards or curved back- 

 wards. Flowers all perfect, white ; in rather lax cymes arranged 

 in a somewhat lax panicle, frequently sub-corymbose at the top ; 

 the branches ascending, much longer than the leaves from the 

 axils of which they spring. Lobes of the corolla acuminate, not 

 cuspidate. Fruit glabrous, granulated with small tubercles. Plant 

 generally not turning black in drying. 



Var. a, montanum. Vill. 



Plate DCLII. 



Billot, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 377. 



G. montanum, Vill Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 33 (mm Linn.). 



G. pusillum, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 74 (uon Linn.) (plate only). 



G. montanum et G. sylvestre (part), Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. pp. 1G1, 1G2. 



G. lseve, Thuil. Jord. Frag. III. p. 1.50. 



Stem glabrous, rather stiff, not flexuous, sharply quadrangular. 

 Leaves linear-oblanceolate, rather suddenly acuminate and aristate, 

 glabrous, with the margins smooth or ciliated, slightly revolute ; 

 dorsal nerve prominent beneath and slender. Flowers in lax lew- 

 flowered corymbose cymes arranged in a blunt-topped panicle, with 

 the branches rather short ascending. 



Mountain Bedstraw. 



French, Gaillet du Picmout. German, Heide Lablcraut. 



(?) Var. /3, nitidulum. Thuill. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 378. 



G. sylvestre, Vitt. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 33. Jord. Frag. IIT. p. 145. 

 G. sylvestre (part) et G. commutatum, (?) Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 102 (uon Jord. 

 Frag. III. p. 149, nee Gr. &. Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 33). 



Stem weak, flexuous, glabrous, or hairy towards the base, 

 bluntly quadrangular. Leaves nearly linear, glabrous, or the lower 

 ones hairy, with the margins generally ciliated with recurved 

 prickles, strongly revolute ; dorsal nerve prominent beneath and 

 slender. Flowers in rather compact corymbose cymes arranged 

 in a lax panicle, with the branches spreading-ascending, the lower 

 ones spreading. 



In pastures and upland districts, heaths, and on rocks. Rather 

 rare in the midland and northern counties of England and in 





