TETRANDRIA iMONOGYNIA. Galium. 37 



linear, four in a whorl ; the upper ones very unequal. 

 Flowers all four-cleft. Fruit smooth. E. B. 33. 

 Synanchica. G. E. 1120. 



Dry, chalky hanks. * Bullingdon Green, Stokenchurch Hills, 



Wychwood Forest. Sb. Headington Quarry, Shooter's Hill, 



Pangbourn, Berks. R. W. 

 Per. July. 

 Stems four to six inches, generally trailing, erect at the extremities. 



Fl. white, or blush-coloured, elegantly marked with red lines. 



Ls. upper ones three, or two at a joint. 



GA'LIUM.' Bed-straw. 



* Fruit smooth. 



G. crucidtum. Gross-wort^ Beds. Mug-weed. Leaves 

 eg"g"-shaped, hairy, four in a whorl. Stem hairy, 

 simple above. Flowers axillary, clustered from the 

 side of the stalks, with two leaves. E. B. 143. Cru- 

 ciata. G. E. 1123. 



Tliickets. Tar Wood, Wychwood Forest. Sb. 



Per. May. 



Stems one foot and a half, branched at the base, resting against 

 bushes, &c. weak. Fl. in small corymbs, polygamous, yellow, 

 variable in structure : segments from three to five. Ls. light 

 green. Plard, particularly the roots, to dye red : astringent. 



G. palustre. White Water IB. Leaves oblong-spear- 

 shaped, blunt ; the upper ones four in a whorl, unequal 

 in size. Stem weak ; spreadingly branched. E. B. 

 1857. H. L. 1. 20. 



Moist meadows, ditches, borders of rivers. — 



Per. July. 



Stem among tall water plants, rising to three or four feet, four 

 cornered. Fl. white, three cleft, and somewhat umbellate, and 

 again sub-divided. Panicle large, loose, at the base two leaves 

 or one. Segm. of Cor. broad, acute, but not pointed. Ls. some- 

 times more than four in a whorl. 



G. saxdtile. Smooth Heath B. Leaves six in a whorl, 

 inversely egg-shaped, blunt with a small point. Stem 

 much branched, trailing, smooth. Fruit granulated. 

 E. B. 815. G. procumbens. Sb. 59. 



Heaths, hilly ground. 

 Per. June. 



' From Gala, milk, Gr. because one at least of the genus, Gal. verum, coagu- 

 lates milk. 



