390 



THE STELLATE TRIBE. 



Fig. 466. 



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 spreading panicles ; 

 the lobes of the corolla without the fine 

 point of the hedge G. 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, extending all over Eu- 

 rope and Russian Asia, from the Medi- 

 terranean to the Arctic Circle. Common 

 in Britain. Fl. summer. 



4. Swamp Galium. Galium uliginosum, Linn. (Fig. 467.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1972, and G. Witheringii, Eng. Bot. t. 2206.) 



Differs from the marsh G. in its leaves, 

 either 6 or 8 in a whorl, usually nar- 

 rower, terminated by a fine point, and 

 less disposed to turn black in drying ; 

 from the slender varieties of the heath 

 G., in its stem very rough on the angles, 

 and often 1 to 2 feet long. 



Dispersed over Europe and Russian 

 Asia, and occurs in various parts of Bri- 

 tain, but not a very common plant, for 

 although indicated in almost all Floras 

 within the geographical range of the 

 marsh G. and the heath G., it is pro- 

 bable that varieties of the one or the other 

 are often mistaken for it. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 467. 



