STELLATE. 



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8. Northern Galium. Galium boreale, Linn. (Fig. 471.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 105.) 



Eootstock creeping; the stems more 

 firm and erect, and less branched than 

 in the other species, from \ to 1^ feet 

 high, glabrous or slightly hoary. Leaves 

 4 in a whorl, lanceolate or linear, rather 

 firm, with 3 longitudinal ribs, smooth or 

 scarcely rough at the edges, and often 

 an inch long. Mowers numerous, in 

 oblong terminal panicles, white, and ra- 

 ther larger than in the hedge G., with 

 very short, inflected points to the lobes. 

 Fruit covered with hooked hairs or 

 bristles. 



On moist rocks, and in mountain 

 pastures, all over northern Europe and 

 Russian Asia to the Arctic regions, con- 

 fined to mountains in southern Europe 

 and central Asia. Frequent in Scot- 

 land, northern England, Worth Wales, and Ireland 



Fig. 471. 



Fl. summer. 



9. Cleavers Galium. Galium Aparine, Linn. (Fig. 472.) 



(Eng. Bot, t. 816. Cleavers. 



Although an annual, this plant often 

 extends to several feet, scrambling over 

 bushes, to which it clings by the recurved 

 asperities or small prickles on the angles 

 of the stem and on the edges and mid- 

 ribs of the leaves. Leaves 6 or 8 in a 

 whorl, linear or linear-lanceolate, often 

 above an inch long. Peduncles oppo- 

 site and axillary, rather longer than the 

 leaves, bearing a loose cyme of from 3 

 to 8 or 10 small, greenish-white flowers, 

 with 3 or 4 leaves at the base of the 

 cyme. Pedicels 2 to 4 lines long, straight 

 and slender, or but slightly recurved 

 and thickened. Fruits usually covered 

 with hooked bristles, forming small, 

 very adhesive burrs, but sometimes al- 

 most or entirely without them. 



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