PI, ex, cal. 
42. RUBIACEAE. 253. Galium. 
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6. Galium Witheringii. Withering’s cheese-rennet , 
Stem upright, simple, rough ; leaves 5 in a whirl, lan- 
ceolate, reflexed, fringed, awned. 
Galium montanum, With. Bot.Arr. 187 ; not of Linnaeus. 
Galium Witheringii, Smith FI. Brit, 174. 
Damp mountain heaths ; perennial ; July. 
Stem 9 inches high ; panicles terminal, forked ; flowers 
before opening purplish, afterwards white ; anthers red. 
7. Galium vulgar e. Common cheese-rennet. 
Stem weak, angular, branched ; branches very much 
spread ; leaves 8 in a whirl, ovate, linear, much spread, 
xnucronate, edge rough \ flowers panicled; panicles spread. 
Mollugo vulgatior, Raii Syn. 223, 1 ; Park. 565. 
Rubia sylvestris, Ger. em. 1118. 
Galium Mollugo, Lin. S. P. 155. 
Wild madder. Great bastard madder. 
Woods and hedges; perennial; July and August. 
Stem 4 feet high, rather smooth, thick above the joints ; 
leaves rather bald ; panicles forked, much branched. 
/3. scabrum. Stem and leaves pubescent. 
Galium scabrum, With. Bot. Arr. 190; not of Jacquin. 
8. Galium scabrum. Rough cheese-rennet . 
Stem tufted, swollen, diffuse, ascending, tomentose at 
bottom ; leaves 6 or 8 in a whirl, linear, lanceolate, rather 
rough, mucronate ; lowest leaves very small, withering, 
elliptical; peduncles threeforked or in threes. 
Mollugo q. Galium album supinum multicaule Florae Jenensis, Raii 
Syn. 224, 5. 
Galium pusillum, Lin. S. P. 154. 
Galium scabrum, Jacq. Austr. 
Chalky hills ; perennial ; July and August. 
Stems 9 inches high, rarely bald ; leaves slightly revo- 
lute; uppermost bald; corolla white, not pointed ; fruit 
smooth, bald. 
9. Galium erectum. Upright cheese-rennet. 
Stems smooth, flaccid ; leaves 6 or 8 in a whirl ; lanceo- 
late, bald, bent back, acutely serrated, mucronated ; panicles 
8-forked. 
Galium erectum, Huds. FI. Angl. 68. 
Damp fields and pastures; perennial; June and July. 
Stem much branched, rather upright, panicled at top ; 
leaves awned ; panicles terminal and lateral, leafy, many- 
flowered ; corolla white, pointed. 
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