GALIUM. 
387 
DC. iv. 581 ; Koch 358 ; WB. ii. 189 ; Seub. FI. Az. 34, 35 (var. 
jmbescens Hochst.) ; Bab. 155. — Herb. ann. Mad., PS., reg. 1, 2, 
3, ccc. In vineyards, cornfields, waste and cult, ground or by 
road-sides everywhere ; not observed in the Desertas. March- 
June, but here and there at most seasons. — A small unprofit- 
able weed with rather pretty bright lilac fl. inclining oftener 
to bl. than pink and sometimes very pale or even w. Whole 
pi. setosely scabrous and more or less hirtosely pubescent. St. 
prostrate sometimes cespitose, the ends ascending, 3-9 in. long, 
sharply 4-angular, pubescent or sometimes almost hirfose. L. 
4-6 in a whorl bright full gr. hirtosely pubescent all over above, 
on the midrib and edges only beneath, rather broadly and 
shortly lanceolate sharply cuspidate, very scabrous. Fl. small 
4-8 together in little terminal crowded sessile heads surrounded 
by 8 spreading nearly smooth but scabrous bracts shaped like 
the 1. but larger or broader and in fr. dilated pale and connate 
at the base, forming a persistent invol. Teeth of cal. in fr. 
enlarged ciliato-setose narrow-acuminate. Fr. setoso-scabrous, 
dark brown or black. 
4. Galium L. 
§1. Platygalium Koch. L. 3-nerved; root per.; st. un- 
armed without defiexed prickles; fl. in terminal panicles. 
1. G. elliptic um Willd. 
Suffrutescent hairy-pubescent or glabrescent ; st. horizontally 
hirtoso-pilose or lanuginoso-villous ascending or diffuse, much 
branched and shrubby downwards, the fl. -branches elongate 
and suberect ; 1. 4-nate subsessile or shortly petiolulate oval or 
elliptic, the lower broad obtuse abruptly mucronate, the upper 
narrower and more pointed or acute, all pale gr. or hoary re- 
ticulate subcoriaceous persistent, more or less piloso-pubescent 
principally on the nerves and margins, the latter ciliate with 
longer stiller hairs, all pointing forwards; panicles terminal 
' eafy composed of many-fld. trichotomouslv compound cymes, 
the branches ped. and pedic. of these finely capillary and at first 
upright, then divaricately spreading; fl. pale greenish-y. or 
cream-col. ; fr. subglobose more or less uncinato-setulose. 
ex. lucidum ; shining more or less glabrescent ; st. thinly or 
hirtosely pilose ; 1. mostly with the nerves and edges onlv 
ciliato-pilose nearly or quite sessile, mostly obtuse ; branches 
of panicle, ped., pedic. and fl. nearly or quite smooth. — G. 
ellipticum Willd. “ Enum. Suppl. (1813);” DC. iv. 599; Gren. 
et Godr. ii. 17. G. ellipticum Willd. var. glabrescens E. Bour- 
geau! Bl. Can. ex. Itin. 2 do (Coss.) in HK., HB. and Herb. 
Mus. Paris. G. rotundifolium Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2. p. 156 
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