Galium Verum. Yellow Ladies-Bedstraw. 
Litm. Gen. P 1. Tetrandria Monogynia. 
Cor. monopetala, plana. Sent, duo, fubrotUnda. 
Rah Syn. Gen. 12. Herb.® Stellat.e. 
GALIUM carnis floriferis brevibus. Un„. Syft. V*. el H . 
GALJUM fia Hn-ritaj. per^uffis, caenis, racemis multifloris, (picaris. M llifl. ?la 
GALLfUM * A “4- 
RADIX perennis, repens, tenuis, fublignofa, lute, | ROOT perennial, creeping, (lender, fomewhat woody 
CAULIS pedalis, ad bipedalem, ereBus obfolete te I STAI K f * ydl ° W “'““L , • , 
tragonus, parum flexuofus geniculatus fca t TALK £ ° ne to , tw ° f ? et hl §^ upnght, flightly 
ber, inferne minus fupernc mams pubefeens S' four-cornered, a little crooked, jomted, rough, 
pallide viridis, verful fummitatem^amofus ■ * 5 T *1' ght L above more obvioully pube- 
I r s to^rillSn^^^: 
alterni multo breviores, patulo-erefli, flokri! | 
» alternate ones much the Ihortefl, betwixt up- 
rouA uS - 1 LEAVE CS^j- *, 
r fj... ’ 6““ 5 v - iij cuiaiuni mierta, § 
lelltlia, verttcillata, reffcxo-patula, linearia, I 
obtubulcula, fubmucronulata, baft attenuata f 
margine utrmque revoluto, aculeifque minu- I 
tis oculo armato tantum confpicuis furfum f 
alpero, (upra rugofiufcula, obfeure viridia, * 
nitentia, (ubtus canaliculata, pallidiora, in- C 
feriora, plerumque oftona, non raro dena, f 
iupenora feptena, fena, quina, quaterna fu- % 
prema terna, bina, et ad ultimos pedicellos f 
lingula, | 
, . , *■ aiiici Lcu inio tnc 
edge of the joints, fcflile, whorled, fpread- 
mg and fomewhat turned back, linear, blunt- 
ifh, with a flight point, narrowed at the bafe 
the edge on each hde rolled back, and rough 
with minute prickles turned upwards, which 
are vifible only with a magnifier, above flightly 
wrinkled, of a deep green colour, glofly, un- 
derneath hollowed, of a paler colour, the low- 
ermoft growing ufually eight in a whorl, not 
'infrequently ten, the upper ones decreafing 
I to . 7- 6< 5, 4, 3, 2, and even i at the extre- 
FL0RES li^^“’ ^ P- f -OWLrT“ ± “ricle, numerous, fmafl, 
PANICULA e ramis floriferis 'compofita, fpithamea, $ PANICLll^t^^tSg W^'about 
et ultra interrupta, ramofa, ramis multifloris, f a fpan in lenmh intern, K l a 
m^uabbus, foliofis, foliolis pedicellorum $ 
PAT yy nr\ r * * fmall leaves of the pedicles fino-le 
rORof T a" conf P lc “ us ’/^- i- | CALYX fcarcely vifible, Jg.i. , °* 
COROLLA monopetala, rotata, patens, ungue nulla ; « COROLLA monopetalousT wheel-fliaped fpreadinv 
lacinns quatuor, plants lubreflexis, diflanti- | without any claw, dirid“d in» fourKTI’ 
bus, oval, bus, acutls, fig. 2. j which are flat, a little turned back, Sam! 
STAMINA : Filamenta 4, capillaria , ereSa, co- | STAMINA ^fom ^apilhS/V, laments upright 
rollabrevrora j Anthee* rotundatas, flavK, I (horter than the corolla ; Anthers! round’ 
PISTIT Tf™ a °r ffia ° fUrC c I ilh, yellow, finally brownifh. Jig. 3. 
I IS 1 ILLUM . Germen fubrotundum, didymum, | PISTILLUM: Germen nearly round double flat 
compreffum glabrum; Stylus profunde | tened, fmooth; Style deeply divided into 
PFRIPARPnm US R^ TIGM ^ TA £ a P ltata ’ flS- 4> 5> 6- f two ; Stigmata two little heads fir a c 6 
1 ERICARPIUM : Baccas duas, flee*, globofe, coa- $ SEED-VESSEL : two, dry <d 0 bular JS ‘ 4 ’ 5 ’ 
QFiv/TTMA rT-' • ri r • f BERRIES united together. 
SEMINA folitana, fubremformia, rugofa. | SEEDS Angle, fomewhat kidney-fhaped and wrinkled. 
Grows plentifully in the neighbourhood of London, in dry hilly failures, and on the borders of fields 
flowering m June, July, and Auguft. 110», 
We have leen the foliage of this plant, when all the furrounding herbage has been parched up fupport the 
“ may ^ “ W "“ d “ on fuch lawns as afe.apVn dry 
An ingenious gentleman converfant in dying, afTured me that it was a plant highly defending of culture as an 
aIl I" hat u U i nC f l t t at th a r0 ? tS ’ tho , u g h , not fo Iar ge a s thofe of Madder, produced a brighter colour 
an l" who, e f. the herbage dyed a good yellow, in which refpea it had the advantage over Madder 
1 he flowers of this plant have a moderately ftrong, not difagreeable fmell, the leaves little or none : they 
both difeover to the tafle a fenfible acidity, which they manifeft alfo by changing the juices of blue flowers to a 
red, and by coagulating boiling milk: they are faid to. be in fome places commonly made ufe of in this lafl 
intention, whence one of the common names of the plant Cbeefe rennet. Their acid matter appears to be (if 
Bo r rich ius s experiment is to be depended on) of a more fubtle kind than that of Sorrel, and than the other 
native vegetable acids that have been examined ; the flowery tops committed to the flill as foon as gathered 
giving over a pretty ftrong acid liquor in a moderate heat, wherein Sorrel yielded only an infipid phlegm The’ 
reflnngent and refrigerating virtues afenbed to this plant appear from thefe experiments to have fbme founda- 
tion. Lewis's Mat. Med. p. When it diffufes a ftronger odour than common, it denotes,, according to Loeskj 
rainy and tempeftous weather. . a , 
This plantis fubjeft to a difeafe, in which the Hem and branches are fet with flefhy balls, about the fize of a 
pea, hollow within, and covered with a purplifh fkin. Withering. 
