Galium.'] 



XLIII. RUBIACE^ 



197 



G. diffusum Do7i. 



( 



narrower. 



E. B. S. t 2783. 



Hedges and pastures, not common. In Norfolk ; at Portslade, 

 Sussext and near Cambridge. Portobello, Dalraahoy, and Slate- 

 ford, near Edinburgh. Wood, west of Kinnaird mill, Forfarshire. 

 fi, Slateford near Edinburgh; Kinnaird, Forfarshire. G. Doiu 2/.. 



g[ Xn all the specimens we have seen the stem Is hairy at the very 



base, but it is sometimes quite glabrous above, although in England 

 is is usually hairy there also, at least on the angles. 



8. G. Mollugo L. {great Hedge B,) ; leaves 6—8 in a whorl 

 oblonf^'-lanceolate or obovate mucronate rough at the margin 

 with prickles pointing forward and lower branches of the pani- 

 cles spreading horizontally, stem flaccid, segments of the corolla 

 taper-pointed, fruit-stalks divaricated. — a. stem glabrous, leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, floral ones small. E. B. t. 1673. — (3. stem 

 and leaves hairy. — y. stem glabrous, leaves obovate, floral ones 



Winander 



large. G. Insubricum Gaud, 



Hedges and thickets, less frequent in Scotland. — y. 

 Mere: Bev. C. A. Stevens. If-, 7, S.— Stems very long and strag- 

 o-ling, thickened above the joints. Small specimens of this have 

 sometimes the panicle close, when they cannot be distinguished from 

 G. erectum, a species it must be confes^d not satisfactorily distinct. 

 Dr. Bromfield found a var. in the Isle of Wight with greenish 

 flowers. 



*** Moot perennial Flowers ivldte. Fruit hispid. 



9. G. horedle L. 



) 



lanceolate 3-ncrved glabrous, stems erect, fruit covered with 

 hooked bristles. E. B. t. 105. 



Moist rocks, frequent in the north of England, Wales, and Ire- 

 land. ^. 6,7. In very shady places and clefts of rocks, the 



stems are long and straggling. 

 Bristles of t\\Q fruit hooked. 



Flowers numerous, crowded, white. 



'^^^'^ Root annual Flowers white or greenish. 



10. G. Parisiense L. (Wall B.) ; leaves about six in a whorl 

 lanceolate bristle-pointed rough at the margins with prickles 

 pointing forwards, peduncles axillary their branches divaricated 

 slender subtrichotomous, stems slender rough with decurved 



prickles 



a. fruit hispid. G. Parisiense L. G. litigiosuin IX C. 



Huds ^ ^ 



/3. fruit glabrous granulated. 

 384. 



)3. Walls and dry sandy soils, rare ; in Kent and various parts 

 of the east and south-east of England, especially on old walls. ©. 

 6, 7. 



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11. G. ^sacchardtum All. (warty -fruited B.) ; leaves 6 in a 

 whorl lanceolate their margins rough with prickles pointing 



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