GALIUM. 
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a. Cymes on axillary stalks longer than the leaves or short 
subabortive side-branches, more or less compound, leafy ; 
paniculate or subpaniculate, forming a more or less dis- 
tinct panicle. 
3. Cf. pahisiense L. 
St. slender brittle suberect or ascending smooth but rough 
at the 4 angles with numerous minute deflexed prickles ; 1. 5-8- 
(mostly 7-) nate at first erect, then spreading or deflexed linear or 
linear-lanceolate aristate or bristle-pointed, the margins serru- 
late and the nerve or sometimes more of the upper surface 
hispid or rough with forward-pointing spinules ; cymes small 
few-fid. on short remote leafy stalks or side-branches nearly all 
the way up the st. forming an interrupted irregular indistinct 
sort of oblong elongate panicle, 2-3-chotomously twice or thrice 
forked with capillary divaricated branches and pedic., the latter 
smooth 3-4 or even 5 times the length of fr. ; fl. very small 
2-3-nate ; pet. erecto-patent ovate subobtuse ; fr. small hispid 
or smooth and finely granulate. — Linn. Sp. 157 ; Vill. PI. 
Daupli. ii. 332 ; WE. ii. 184 ; Koch (ed. 2) 363 ; ejusd. y di- 
varication 1025 (excl. syn.) P 
/8. leiocarpum , Tausch, Koch 1. c. ; fr. smooth or naked and 
minutely granulated. G. parisiense (3. anglicum WB. ii. 184 ; 
eorund. y divarication (excl. syn.). G. parisiense b. Vill. 
Dauph. 1. c. G. parisiense a nudum Gr. et Godr. ii. 42. G. 
'parisiense Lam. Enc. ii. 584; Bab. 157. G. anglicum Huds. EB. 
t. 384 ; Sm. E. El. i. 209 ; DC. iv. 607 ; Seub. Fl. Az. 34. “ G. 
anglicum a Koch (ed. 1) 354;” Coss. et Germ. El. Par. ii. 363; 
eorund. var. /3. erection (excl. syn.)? G. minidijiorion Holl ! 
Mad. List (not Brot.). Aparine minima llav Syn. 225. t. 9. 
f. 1. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, 3, c; PS. reg. 3, 4, rr. On 
walls about Funchal, dry rocky banks in ravines, open moun- 
tain pastures, &c., in Mad. everywhere. I 11 PS. 011 the rocky 
summit of P. do Eaclio, N. side of P. da Cabrita and rocks 
above the church of N. S. da Gra^a. May- July. — A small 
inconspicuous shortlived fragile delicate smooth pi., with slen- 
der brittle st. mostly 3-6 and rarely more than 8-10 in. long, 
and small remotely whorled 1. St. diffusely suberect some- 
times procumbent one or many (often about 3) from the crown 
of the rather long fibrous root stronglv aeuleolate and clinging: 
by tne numerous deflexed prickles at their 4 angles, sometimes 
very finely filiform and capillary, but still much oftener erect 
than procumbent or ascending. L. reticulate rather dark gr., 
the lower 4- or 5-nate broader or obovate, acute, the upper 
mostly 7 -nate narrower or finely linear and produced into a 
fine bristly point, the disk above and nerve beneath mostly 
sprinkled with a few forward-pointing setules like those of the 
