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(aparine) a certain herb, a name of doubtful origin. The English 

 name Cleavers, from the whole plant being thickly covered with 

 hooked bristles. Engl. Bot. t. 816. 



Locality. Hedges, A. Fl. June, August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 

 Abundant in all the Districts. Plant straggling among bushes 

 under surface of the leaves, smooth, except the midrib. Flowers, 

 few, pale, buff-coloured. Fruit a double globe. 



4. Gf. Mollugo, (Linn.) great hedge Bed-straw. The tallest of 

 our native species of galium. Mollugo is a word used for some 

 plan„ by Pliny, (derived from mollis, signifying soft,) and refers 

 probably to the leaves, which are hairy, but never rough to the 

 touch, as most of the other species of this genus are. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1673. 



Locality. Hedges and thickets. P. Fl. July, August. Area, 

 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Generally distributed. Stem, 3 or 4 feet high, or 

 taller if supported by bushes ; more dwarf upon our open chalky 

 downs. Leaves generally very smooth, except the edges, which 

 are beset with small prickles pointing forwards. Segments of the 

 corolla three-ribbed, each tipped with a tumid point, not a bristle. 

 Fruit small, often abortive. The copious milk-white flowers of the 

 great Hedge Bed-straw, very conspicuously adorn our hedge- 

 rows in the latter months of summer. 



5. G. erectum, (Huds.) upright Bedstraw. Engl. Bot. t. 2067. 

 Locality. Banks, and pastures, rare. P. FL June, August. 



Area, * * 3. 4. * 



South Division. 



3. South-west District, " Borders of New Hall Park," Major Smith. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, " Meadows about South "Wraxhall," Mr. 

 Sole. MSS. Flor. Somerset. 



Very local in Wilts. A doubtful species, and perhaps not dis- 

 tinct from G-. Mollugo. Some botanists can distinguish it from the 

 latter by its more upright stem, more slender habit, smaller, and 

 less diffuse panicle, and somewhat glossy and narrower lower leaves, 

 but in all these particulars I fear there are intermediate states. 

 Scarcely any genus requires illustration more than Galium. 



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