TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. G41ium. 39 



G. verum. Yellow B. Leaves eight in a wliorl, linear, 

 channelled, entire, rough. Flowers in close panicles. 

 Fruit smooth. E. B. 660. C. 6. 13. G. luteum. 

 G. E. 1126. 



Dry ground. Var. white fl. Sonning, Berks. Ttir. 

 Per. June. 

 , Stems about one foot and a half, seldom quite upright, without sup- 

 port, roundish, smooth. Ls. pointing downwards, dark green, 

 Fl. stalks much branched, smaller ones short, Fl. yellow- 

 golden. 



A strong decoction of the plant, a good rennet to curdle boiling 

 milk. The root to dye red. Flowers smell strongly before rain, 

 and wind. Fl. Suec. The whole herbage to dye yellow : sup- 

 ports the finest verdure in the dryest weather. 



G. Mollugo. Great Hedge-B. Leaves about eight in a 

 whorl, elliptical, bluntish, bristle-pointed, rough-edged. 

 Flowers in loose, spreading panicles. Corolla thick- 

 tipped. Seeds smooth, round. E. B. 1673. Rubia 

 sylvestris. G. E. 11]8. 



Hedges, thickets. 



Per. July. 



Stems weak, and sometimes rising to three or four feet, with sup- 

 port; branched, leafy, swollen, and pale above the joints, mostly 

 smooth, i^/. numerous, pure- white. Cor. segments, each tipped 

 with an erect point. Fl. stalks terminal, rising from the whorls 

 of the Ls. Leaf prickles pointing forwards. Ls. of the lower 

 whorls very blunt, almost oblong-battledore-shaped, with a very 

 short sudden point. 



( Galium anglicum. See Appendix.) 



G. Aparine. Goose-grass^ or Cleavers. Leaves eight 

 in a whorl, spear-shaped, keeled, rough, fringed with 

 prickles bent back. Stem weak. Fruit bristly. E- 

 B. 816. C. 2. 9. Aparine. G. E. 1122. 



Hedges. 



A"n. July. 



Stem remarkably adhesive, long, four-cornered, joints woolly, 



branches opposite. Fl. few, pale-w^hitish, from the bosom of the 



Ls. Fr. a double globe, bristles hooked, and seeds thus dispersed 



by adhering. 



Leaves and branches, a filter for milk. Four ounces of the 

 expressed juice, night and morning, taken internally for several 

 weeks, to remove what have commonly been styled scorbutic com- 

 plaints. The roots dye red. The seeds instead of coffee. 



