EEDSTRAW FAJIILY 



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not common. - 



prostrate, 



much- 



branches ; flowers white. — Banks and pastures : 

 Fl. June and September. PerenniaL 



5. G'. MoUi'igo (Hedge Bedstraw). — Stent ascending, square, 

 thickened at tlie nodes, smooth or hairy ; leaves 6 — S in a whorl, 

 oblong, with a bristly point and weak bristles on the margins ; 

 cvme with the lower branches horizontal or reflexed ; flowers 

 white. — Common everywhere in England, but rare in Scotland 

 and Ireland. — Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



6. G. saxdiiU (Heath Bedstraw). — A small, 

 branched species ; stei)i smooth ; 

 leaves about 6 in a whorl, obovate, 

 niucronate, fringed with a few 

 prickles, which point forwards ; 

 cymes numerous, small, compact ; 

 flowers white. — Heaths; abundant. 

 — FL June — August. Perennial. 



7. G. dsperitm (Mountain Bed- 

 straw). — A similar but more erect 

 and stiff species ; leaves 6 — S in a 

 whorl, linear, awned, with prominent 

 midrib and marginal hairs, not 

 bristles. — Limestone hills ; rare. — 

 Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



S" G. paliistre (\A'ater Bedstraw). 

 — Steins I — 3 feet high, weak, 

 straggling, branched, smooth or 

 rough with recurved prickles ; leaves 

 4 — 6 in a whorl, blunt, linear, or 

 on dry ground, oblong, frequently 

 unequal, shining, with or without 

 rough edges ; flowers in loose, 

 spreading panicles, white. — Watery 

 places ; common. — Fl. June — 

 Aiagust. Perennial. 



9. G. iiUgiiwsum (Rough Marsh 

 Bedstraw). — A smaller species ; stems slender, brittle, about a foot 

 high, with recurved prickles on the angles ; leaves 6 — S in a whorl, 

 narrow, bristle-pointed, with recurved prickles on the margms ; 

 cymes few-flowered. — \^'atery places ; colnmon. — Fl. July — 

 August. Fereiuiial. 



*** Leaves i-veiiied : cymes mostly axillary ; flowers white : fruit 

 hispid or tnberded : annual. 



10. G- dngliaim (Wall Bedstraw). — A small, spreading, slender, 



g.4lu'M AP.^RixE (Gi:'^se-^r,rss). 



