Galiu7n.] rubiace^e. 239 



In moist woods, meadows, ditches, the weedy margins of ponds, rivers and 

 other low, wet, marshy places ; extremely oommi)n. J^V. June, July. !(.. 



/3. Abundant in a wet wood near the western side of Blackpan common. Un- 

 der a moist hedge near Coppid Hall. Freshwater village and Alum Bay, Rev. 

 G.E.Smith. ^ 



5. G. uliginostim, li. Rough Marsh Bed-straw. "Leaves 6 — 8 

 in a whorl linear-lanceolate bristle-pointed, their margins and the 

 stem rough with reflexed prickles." — Br. Fl. p. 187. E. B. t. 

 1972. 



In damp marshy or boggy places like the last, hut much less frequent. Fl. 

 July, August. If. 



E. Med. — Between Ryde and Ashey common. Willow-thicket near Lang- 

 hridge, by New church. Wet spot on Briddlesford heath. Plentiful on a moor 

 close to Stone farm. Willow-bed near Budbridge farm, in plenty. Wood near 

 St. John's turnpike, Ryde, Rev. G. E. Smith. [Stapler's heath, near Newport, A. 

 G. More, Esq., Edrs.]' 



W. Med. — Willow-thicket by Bagwick. In the marsh at Freshwater gate. 

 In a bog close to Cockleton farm, near Cowes. 



Root slender. Stems a foot or 18 inches high, weak, brittle, quadrangular, the 

 corners very prominent, and rough with short prickles pointing downwards. Leaves 

 in whorls of 6 or 8 (the uppermost with never less than 5), linear-lanceolate, quite 

 glabrous, bright green, armed beneath along their slightly inflexed edges with a 

 single row of prickles pointing downwards and backwards, and tipped with a fine 

 very distinct bristle or raucro. Flowers while, in small 3-forked panicles at the 

 end of the stem and branches ; occasionally some of them are 5-cleft, their pedun- 

 cles and the ultimate divisions of the panicle smooth. Segments of the corolla 

 scarcely pointed. Anthers at first yellow, then brownish, of 2 round lobes. Stig- 

 ma 2-lobed. Fruit small, minutely granulated or dotted. 



The whole plant is more slender than G. palustre, and does not, like it, turn 

 black in drying, 



6. Gr. saxatile, L. Smooth Heath Bed-stratv. " Leaves about 

 6 in a whorl obovate mucronate, stem much branched smooth 

 usually prostrate, panicles corymbose small, pedicels erecto- 

 patent, petals slightly acute, fruit granulated." — Br. Fl. p. 187. 

 E. B. t. 815. Fl. Dan. x. t. 1633. 



On dry, barren, sandy heaths and commons ; abundantly. FL June — August. 



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7. G. tricorne, With. Rough-fruited Corn Bed-straw. Three- 

 horned Corn Goose-grass. " Leaves 6 — 8 in a whorl linear-lan- 

 ceolate their margins midrib and angles of the stem rough with 

 reflexed prickles, peduncles axillary 3-flowered, fruit reflexed 

 granulated."— 5r. Fl. p. 190. E. B. t. 1641. 



In dry and especially chalky cornfields and other cultivated ground ; not unfre- 

 quent. Fl. June — October. Fr. September, October. 0. 



E. Med. — Cornfields above St. Lawrence, and above Sandown bay. At Bon- 

 chnrch. Once found by me near Ryde, between Binstead and Ninham. Amongst 

 turnips in a field between Kerne and Ashey down. 



W. Med.— In a field near Street Place. Very widely dispersed, and sometimes 

 profusely, in cornfields about Thorley and Wellow. Very plentifully in a field 

 near WestoT«r. Not unfrequent amongst corn near W. Cowes, as at Broadfield 

 farm, &c. Frelds near Carisbrooke, Mr. D. Turner, Fl. Vect., and Mr. Borrer 

 in litt. [Brighslone, near Moortown, Dr. Bell-Salter, Edrs.] 



The whole herb of a pale yellowish green, strongly resembling the much more 



