38 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Galium. 



Plant small. Stem two to six inches, very slender at the base. FL 

 panicles terminal, and lateral, three forked, smooth, milk-white, 

 small. Fruit small, studded with minute gi^anulations. Ls. 

 roughish at the edges. 

 Discriminated by its granulated fruit, which is found also in Gal. 



tricorne, a very different species. 



G. uliginosum. Rough Marsh B. Leaves six in a 

 whorl, inversely egg-spear-shaped, rigid, bristle-pointed; 

 their edges rough, like the stem, with prickles pointing 

 backwards. Fruit smooth, smaller than the corolla. E. 

 B. 1972. H. L. 1. 21. 



JVet meadotvs, &c. 



Per. July. 



Stem one foot or more, branched, rough, weak, and brittle. Ls. 

 from the side of the stem, adhering to almost every thing in con- 

 tact with them. FL small, white, terininal, and from the side, 

 cloven. F)'. small, dotted. Ls. variable in number. 

 Discriminated by prickles at the edge of the Ls. and the sharp 



bristle point, from G. saxatile. 



G. erectum. Upynght B. Leaves whorled, about eight, 

 spear-shaped, bristle-pointed ; rough at their edges with 

 prickles, all pointing forward. Stem weak, a little 

 hairy under each joint. E. B. 2067- 



Mountainous Pastures. Henley. Sb. 



Per. June. 



Pan. close, terminal. Cor. white, taper-pointed. Ls. scarcely 

 inversely egg-shaped, except some of the lower ; slightly glaucous, 

 much veined with net- work, smooth on both sides ; the edges, 

 and adjoining portion of the disk above with a double row of 

 hooked prickles. Stems one and a half to two feet ; plant larger 

 than G. uliginusum. 



G. tricorne. Rough-fruited Corn B. Three-jiowered 

 Goose-grass. Leaves about eight in a whorl, spear- 

 shaped, with marginal prickles, bent back, like those on 

 the stem. Stalks axillary, three-flowered. Fruit 

 sharply granulated, drooping. E. B. 1641. G. spu- 



rium. Sb. 59. 

 Dry, chalky fields. Headington Field, Stanton Harcourt, South- 



leigh. Sb. Between Cowley Marsh and Rose Hill. R. W. 



Wheatley Road, and Headington Quarry. Between Tackley 



and Northbrook. B.i\ 

 Stems one foot or more, weak, simple. Fl. stalks scarcely so long 



as the Ls. three-cleft, with mostly three/, and a pair of bracteas. 



Fl. cream-coloured. Stalks after flowering curved downwards. 



Fr. appearance of having been cut with a sharp instrument. 



