222 TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Galium. 
not with a rigid bristle or prickle. Blossom purple on the outside whilst 
young. Anthers red brown. Pistil very short, cloven down to the base. 
(On the stem may be observed a few pellucid hairs, decidedly pointing 
upwards, though perhaps rather too strongly and too numerously ex¬ 
pressed in former impressions of our figure. The roughness of the stem 
when stroked upwards is moreover occasioned, as noticed by Smith, by 
the minute hooks, curved downwards,” with which the four angles tire 
beset. These bear a general resemblance in form to the prickles on a 
common Briar or Bramble, or the beak of an eagle, are semi-transparent, 
but in our specimens, scarcely perceptible to the naked eye, and therefore 
not expressed in our plate. We have renewed our examination, and 
been led to the above result by a stricture in Eng. FI. and further take 
leave to remark that the leaves on the stem of our plant are more deci¬ 
dedly reflexed than in the fig. of E. Bot. as observed also by Prof. Hooker. 
Rough Heath Bed-straw. G. Witheringii. FI. Brit. G. montanum. 
With, to Ed. 5.; though the Author then suspected his plant might prove 
a new species, distinct from G. montanum of Linn, which opinion has 
been confirmed by Sir J. E. Smith, who has been pleased to name the 
plant after its discoverer. E.) On high, but boggy, parts of Hands- 
worth Heath, near Birmingham, (since drained and inclosed. E.) (On 
Bank meadow, Rose Castle, Cumberland. Bishop of Carlisle, in E. Bot. 
Walkington Wood, near Beverley. Teesdale, in Bot. Guide. Below 
Castle-head wood, near Keswick. Mr. Winch. Ochill hills, above Dun- 
ing, Perthshire. Mr. D. Hon. East end of the lake at Forfar. Mr. 
Maughan. Hook. Scot. E.) July. 
(G. saxa'tile. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, six in a whorl; dagger- 
pointed ; stem prostrate, smooth, much branched: fruit granulated. 
E. Bot. 815. E.)— Pet. 30. 6. 
Leaves sometimes nearly strap-shaped. FI. Brit. Stems and branches pros¬ 
trate, smooth, matted together and spreading on the ground. Flowering 
stem from two to six inches high. Stems twisted, cylindrical, but with 
four rounded corners. Leaves four in a whorl at the bottom, five about 
the middle, and six at the top of the plant, unequal in size, edged with 
fine prickle-shaped glands ; keel smooth. Flowers in umbels, or panicles, 
lateral and terminating, one or two, or three from the whorls at the joints 
of the stem. Blossom white, sometimes purplish on the outside. Anthers 
yellow. Pistil nearly as long as the stamens, divided down to the base. 
Seeds not rough, but with a granulated surface, (reddish after the flowers 
fall. Leaves varying in size. E.) 
(Smooth Heath Bed-straw. G. saxatile. Linn. Sm. Willd. Hook. 
Grev. G. procumbens. With. Sibth. Abbot. Purt. E.) G. montium . 
Gmel. G. montanum. Huds. On heaths and mountains, frequent. 
P. July. 
G. uligino'sum. Leaves in sixes, spear-shaped, bristle-pointed, rigid, 
bowed backwards; serrated with recurved prickles; blossoms 
larger than the fruit. 
(Hook. FI. Lond. — E. Bot. 1972. E.)—Kniph. 10—Barr. 82— J. B. iii. 
216 . 2 . 
(Stems fragile, about a foot high, supporting themselves on other plants. 
E.) Leaves free from hairs, terminating in a thorn-like point. Seeds 
smooth. Linn. Leaves sometimes seven or eight in a whorl. Huds. 
