TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Galium. 223 
Blossom white, with a tinge of rose-colour. Hall. The leaves are dis¬ 
posed to turn back and point downwards, as in G. montanum. 
Var. 2. Upper leaves six, lower ones four in a whorl; not dagger-pointed. 
All the leaves strap-shaped, but not ending in a thorn-like point. 
Flowers in a three-cleft umbel, the middle spoke but half the length of 
the other two. Anthers purplish red. 
Found growing with G. palustre, but does not at all agree with that, and 
probably will prove a distinct species. 
The prickles at the edge of the leaves and the sharp dagger-like point 
readily distinguish the first of these from G. montanum , and the smooth 
stem separates it both from montanum and palustre. 
Marsh Goose Grass. (Rough Marsh Bed Straw. (Welsh: Gwen - 
don arw y migyn. E.) Meadows, pastures, and wet heaths. On the 
lower bog at Chisselhurst. Ray. (Not uncommon in Norfolk. E. Bot. 
On Beamish Moor, near Madomsley, and near Winch Bridge, Durham. 
Winch Guide. Feckenham Bog, Worcestershire: Coleshill Bog, War¬ 
wickshire. Purton. Green’s Grove, Hatton; do. Perry. Anglesey. Welsh 
Bot. E.) 
G. pusil'lum. Leaves eight in a whorl, rough with hairs, strap¬ 
shaped, tapering to a point; whorls crowded at the base of the 
stem; fruit-stalks forked. 
E. Bot. 74. 
Stems numerous, angular, a finger’s length. Leaves six or eight in a 
whorl, strap-shaped, or between spear and strap-shaped, sharp, rough, 
as are also the stems, with expanding hairs. Branches few, alternate. 
Whorls of leaves often so thickly set as partly to tile the stems. Panicle 
thin set, mostly terminating, upon twice forked fruit-stalks. Linn. 
Leaves seven or eight in a whorl; tiling the lower part of the stem. 
Flowers white. Seeds small, smooth. Huds. Angles of the stem , and 
edges and mid-ribs of the leaves rough with expanding hairs. Leaves 
rarely so many as eight. Woodw. Approaches near to G. uliginosum , 
but may be known from that by the blossom not being pinky on the out¬ 
side, by the fruit-stalks being either smooth or only hairy and not rough 
and harsh with prickles ; but notwithstanding these differences, I doubt 
whether the two plants which our Botanists have called pusillum and 
uliginosum be really distinct species. (Pubescence variable. Flowers 
small, numerous. E.) 
Least Goose Grass. Least Mountain Bed Straw. Limestone hills, 
near Kendal, Westmoreland. Near the bath at Matlock. Sir J. E. 
Smith. (Fields at Shefford, Bedfordshire. Abbot. Common in Cumber¬ 
land, and Lancashire. Mr. Woodward. Peebles on Tweed, and Settle, 
Yorkshire. Mr. Winch. Habbies How, in the Pentland hills. Greville. 
Near the Lake of Kiliarney. Rev. Mr. Butt. E.) P. July—Aug. 
G. erec'tum. Leaves mostly eight in a whorl; spear-shaped, with 
fine prickly serratures; panicles with three divisions; stem 
rough, flaccid. Huds. (Stem weak, slightly hairy under each 
joint. Fruit smooth and even. Sm. 
E. Bot. 2067. E.) 
Stems rather upright; swollen at the joints; quadrangular, the edges 
roughish; somewhat hairy, branched; flowering branches opposite. 
