482 253. Galium, 42. RUBIACEiE. PI. ex. cal 
a fine red; flowers antispasmodic, with alum dye a fine 
yellow, and coagulate milk when boiled in it. 
2. Galimn crucialum . Crossed cheese-rennets 
Stem simple at top, hairy; leaves 4< in a whirl, ovate, 
hirsute, 3-ribbed ; peduncle 2-leaved ; flowers polygamous ; 
corolla 4-cut. 
Cruciata, Rail Syn. 223, 1 ; Ger.eni. 1123, 1. 
Cruciata vulgaris, Parle. 566. 
Valantia cruciata, Lin. S. P. 149. 
Galium Cruciata, Scop. Cam. 1, 100. 
Crosswort. Mugweed. 
Woods and hedges ; perennial ; May. 
Stem weak; leaves soft, light green, deflected when in 
fruit; flowers corymbose. 
3. Galium spurium . Bastard cheese-rennet. 
Stem bent back, prickly; leaves 6 or 8 in a whirl, edge 
prickly; prickles bent back ; peduncles cymose, axillary ; fruit 
upright, entirely smooth ; seed kidneyshape. 
Galium spurium, Lin. S. P. 154. 
Fields; annual; June and Jply. 
Corolla greenish ; ovary quite smooth ; fruit upright, or 
not bent back. 
4. Galium tricorne . Three-horned cheese-rennet. 
Stem trailing, simple ; leaves 6 or 8 in a whirl, lanceo- 
late; edge bent back, prickly; peduncles axillary, 3 -flowered ; 
fruit drooping, tubercular. 
Aparine semine Iffiviore, Rail Syn. 225, 2. 
Aparirse loevis, Park. 567. 
Galium spurium, Huds. FI. Angl. 68. 
Galium tricorne, With. Bot. Arr. 153. 
Valantia spuria, Persoon Syn. 129. 
Fields ; annual ; July. 
b. Corolla white; fruit laid , not tulercled . 
5. Galium palustre . Marsh cheese-rennet „ 
Stem depressed, 4-sided, above branched, smooth ; leaves 
4 or 6 in a whirl, reverse ovate, blunt, unequally. 
Mollugo vulgatior minor, Raii Syn. 224, 2 ; Park. 565. 
Galium album, Ger. em. 1126, 2. 
Galium palustre, Lin. S. P. 153. 
White ladies' bedstraw. 
Fields and pastures; perennial; July. 
Leaves mostly rough on the edges ; peduncles umbelled, 
3 -forked, 3 -flowered. 
