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Leaves 6 or 8, mostly pointed. 
Leaves nearly smooth. F , : 4 . & G. saxatile. 
Leaves very rough . 4. G. uliginosun. 
Annuals. Stems very rough at the ody ges, with adhesive hair 8 
or minute prickles. 
Small, very slender plant. Fruit very small, granulated 7. G. anglicwm. 
Coarse plants, very adhesive. Fruit rather lar ge, usually 
covered with stiff hairs or tubercles. 
Flowers 3 or more, in axillary panicles longer than 
the leaves, Fruitin g pedicels straight . 
Flowers 1 or 3, on axillary peduncles, shorter than 
the leaves. Fruiting pedicels rolled inwards . 10. G. tricorne. 
1, G. Cruciata, Scop. (fig. 471). Crosswort or Maywort.—Stock 
perennial and slender, with a few short, prostrate, or creeping barren 
shoots ; the flowering stems erect or ascending, 6 to 18 inches long, 
and hairy. Leaves in whorls of 4, ovate, 6 to.9 lines long, hairy on 
both sides. Flowers small and yellow, in little leafy cymes or clusters, 
shorter than, or scarcely so long as the leaves. Many of these flowers 
are males only, and soon fall off, their reflexed pedicels remaining 
till the stem withers. Fertile flowers few, and often S-lobed. Fruits 
small, smooth, almost succulent. 
On hedgebanks, and in bushy places, in central and <oneeeee Europe, 
and eastward to the Caucasus. Common in England, and extending 
into mid Scotland, but very rare in Ireland. Fl. spring and early 
summer. 
2. G. verum, Linn. (fig. 472). Ladies’ bedstraw.—Rootstock woody, 
often shortly creeping, the whole plant glabrous and smooth, or with 
only a slight asperity on the edges of the leaves. Stems much 
branched at the base, decumbent or ascending, 6 inches to above a 
foot long, ending in an oblong panicle of very numerous small, yellow 
flowers. Leaves small, linear, numerous, in whorls of 6 or 8. Fruits 
small, and smooth. 
On banks and pastures, throughout HKurope and central and Russian 
Asia, except the extreme north. Abundant in Britain. Fl. the whole 
summer. 
3. G. palustre, Linn. (fig. 473). Marsh G.—A weak and slender, — 
glabrous perennial, more generally blackening in drying than any of 
the following. Stems a foot or more long, with few spreading branches, 
almost always rough on the angles. Leaves mostly 4 in a whorl, 
occasionally 5, very rarely 6, linear or oblong, obtuse, without the 
small point of the three following species; mostly, but not always, 
rough on the edges. Flowers small, and white, not very numerous, in 1 
spreading panicles ; the lobes of the corolla without the fine point of —_ 
G. Mollugo. Fruit rather small, slightly granulated. ; 
In marshes and wet places, often quite in the water, but sometimes __ 
also in drier situations, and even hanging from the clefts of rocks, 9 
extending all over Europe and Russian Asia, from the Mediterranean 
to the Arctic Circle. Common in Britain. Fl. swmmer. 
4, G. uliginosum, Linn. (fig. 474). Swamp G.—Differs from G. 
palustre in its leaves, either 6 or 8 in a whorl, usually narrower, 
terminated by a fine point, and less disposed to turn black in drying ; 
from the slender varieties of G. saxatile, in its stem very rough on the 
angles, and often 1 to 2 feet long. a 
Dispersed over Hurope and Russian Asia, and oceurs in various parts: 2 
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. G. Aparine. 
