Order I* 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
93 
Corollas 5-fid. 
1569 Hoary, CoroU. radiant. Stem many-flowered. Radical leaves ovate lanceolate entire, Cauline pinnatifid 
1570 Calyx very short, Cauline leaves bipinnate filiform 
1571 Coroll. radiant. Radical leaves ovate or lyrate pubescent crenate, Cauline pinnate setaceous 
1572 C(Holl. radiant. Radical leaves oblong crenated. Caul, pinnatifid : the pinnte linear lanceolate spreading 
1573 Coroll. radiant, I^eaves smooth, Radical ovate oblong serrate or lyrate, Caul, pinnate : the segm. lin. cut 
1574 Coroll. equal shorter than calyx, Leaves lyrate pinnatifid hairy. Stem branched divaricating 
1575 Leaves pinnate : the upper linear. Calyces 1-leaved 5-cleft 
1576 Coroll. radiant shorter than calyx. Leaves pinnated the upper linear entire 
1577 Silky, Lower Ivs. stalked roundish or cuneate rugose cren. upper pinnat. Florets uniform longer than invol, 
1578 Hoary very soft. Radical leaves obi. crenated upper caul, pinnatifid with ovate or lane, crenated segm. 
1579 Coroll. radiant, Lvs. cut, Recept. of fruit roundish, Outer limb of calyx broad membran. Stem branched 
1580 Coroll. radiant. Flowers subsessile. Stem dichotomous. Leaves oblong lanceolate nearly entire pubescent 
1581 Coroll. radiant. Leaves cut. Receptacles of the flower subulate 
1582 Coroll. radiant, Leaves pinnatifid. Segments linear, Peduncles very long, Stem rounded 
1583 Calyx multifid urceolate, Coroll. radiant. Leaves fleshy pinnatifid with linear stiff pinnte 
1584 Coroll. equal. Stem shrubby, Leaves simple erect 
1585 Coroll. radiant. Leaves undivided elliptical serrated shining stalked 
1586 Coroll. radiant. Leaves lanceolate nearly entire, Stem shrubby 
1587 Coroll. radiant. Leaves linear lanceolate entire, Stem herbaceous 1-flowered 
1588 Coroll. radiant. Radical leaves lanceolate stalked entire, Cauline pinnated, Stem 1-flowered 
1589 Coroll. radiant. Segments entire. Lower leaves oblong coarsely serrated upper pinnatifid at base 
1590 Coroll. radiant, all the segments trifid. Leaves undivided subserrate the upper pinnatifid at base 
1591 Coroll. radiant longer than calyx, Leaves bipinnate longer than stem 
1592 Coroll. radiant, Radical leaves pinnatifid, Cauline linear fringed at base 
1593 Coroll. radiant, Radical leaves bipinnate with linear leaflets, Cauline pinnate with perfoliate stalks 
1594 Coroll. radiant. Radical leaves lyrate, Cauline sub-bipinnate. Calyxes as long as disk 
1595 Leaves cut, Cor. 5 longer than calyx 
1596 Upper leaves lanceolate entire. Cor. 10 as long as calyx 
Fruit smooth. 
1597 Leaves 4 ovate lanceolate 3-nerved beneath scabrous. Stem erect simple 
1598 Leaves 4 obovate unequal obtuse. Stems diffuse 
1599 Leaves 5 reflexed lanceolate awned ciliated. Stem erect simple scabrous 
1600 Leaves linear smooth mucronate. Stems 4-cornered diffuse 
1601 Leaves 6 linear mucron. roughishj Peduncles trichot. Stems prostrate diffuse 4 angular winged branched 
1602 Leaves 8 lanceolate prickly serrate forwards, Panicles trichotomous. Stems smoothish flaccid 
1603 Leaves 8 hispid lanceolate linear acuminate subimbricate. Peduncles twice dichotomous 
1604 Leaves 8 linear furrowed with stem smooth to the touch. Branches flexible, the flow.-bearing ones short 
1605 Leaves 8 elliptical lanceolate obtuse mucronate at the edge rough horizontally spreading. Stem flaccid 
1606 Leaves 8 smooth lane, scabrous beneath, Floral in pairs. Panicle term. Ped. capill. Stem rounded smooth 
1607 Leaves 8 linear lanceolate very smooth. Peduncles panicled capillary, Stem rounded 
1608 Leaves whorled linear above scabrous. Panicle divaricating, Stem erect rounded pilose roughish 
1609 Leaves 8 lanceolate smooth mucronate. Panicle capillary, Petals awned. Stem 4-eornered weak 
1610 Leaves 8-6 obovate lane. mucr. rough at edge. Peduncles 3-flow. Petals awned. Stem 4-cornered smooth 
1611 Leaves whorled linear. Peduncles dichotomous flower-bearing from the top of the stem which is smooth 
1612 Leaves whorled linear setaceous. Peduncles capillary longer than the leaves 
1613 Leaves whorled linear spreading. Peduncles very short 
1614 Leaves 6 lanceolate keeled rough aculeate backwards joints simple 
1615 Leaves 6 or 8 lanceolate prickly serrate backwards mucronate stiff. Cor. larger than fruit 
1616 Leaves 6 linear lanceolate mucronate thin, edges and the stem scabrous. Peduncles bifid, Fruit granular 
Fruit rough or hispid. 
1617 Leaves 4-6 oblong with short point rough at edge. Panicles close. Stem weak short smooth 
1618 Leaves 8 lane, at edge and stem aculeate backwards. Peduncles axillary 3-fl. Fruit granular nodding 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
nerally axillary, but sometimes panicled. G. verum, petit Muget, Fr. is called bed-straw, from the verb to 
strew, strow, or straw ; being one among a variety of odoriferous herbs which were formerly used to strew 
beds with. The bruised plant is sometimes put in milk intended for cheese to give it a flavor and color. Boiled 
in alum-water, the flowering stems dye a good yellow color, and the roots a red equal to madder. They were 
once cultivated like that plant, at the recommendation of the Committee of Council for Trade, and yielded 
12A cwt. of dried roots per acre. G. mollugo, of which there are several varieties, and G. sylvaticimi and 
Ooreale have similar qualities, though in a less degree. 
G. aparine, (from «T«/|a, to lay hold of), has the fruit set with hooked bristles which adhere to whatever 
they come m contact with, whence it was called by the Greeks PMlanthropon (man-lover), and by us cleavers, 
catch-weed, scratch-weed, &c. ; and from being a favorite food or medicine with geese, goose-grass, &c. Lin- 
naeus informs us, that they use the stalks in Sweden as a filtre to strain their milk through. Dioscorides re- 
lates, that the shepherds made the same use of it in his time ; and certainly it is no bad thing to take hairs 
irom milk, where a sieve is not at hand. It is reckoned to purify the blood, and for that purpose the tops are 
