224 TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Galium. 
Leaves eight, sometimes six in a whorl; sessile, spear-shaped, and be¬ 
tween strap and spear-shaped; bare. The terminal panicle divided 
into three. Flowers white, four-cleft. Seeds small, smooth. Huds. 
Leaves in whorls, from four to five inches distant from each other; 
reflexed ; serratures directed towards the point of the leaf, and not bowed 
back as in the rest of the rough-leaved species. St. ( Stems upright when 
they meet with support, but weak and flaccid, much branched, leafy, 
panicled, many-flowered, often quite smooth, sometimes more or less 
clothed with soft hairs. E. Bot. E.) 
Upright Goose Grass. (Upright Bed Straw. E.) Meadows and 
pastures. Heydon Common, Norfolk. Mr. Bryant. (In dry hedges at 
Portslade, Sussex. Mr. W. Borrer. E. Bot. Causeway near Portobello, 
Edinburgh. Greville. E.) P. June—July. 
(G, cine'reum. Leaves six or eight in a whorl, linear, bristle-pointed, 
with marginal prickles all pointing forward. Stem weak, much 
brancked, smooth. Fruit smooth. Blossom taper-pointed. 
Allion. Fed. 77. 4. 
Stems many, diffuse, very much branched, from a span to a foot high, an¬ 
gular, glabrous, shining, swollen at the joints. Leaves plane, glabrous, 
margin obsoletely serrulate. Branches and branchlets opposite. Flowers 
white, corymbose. 
Grey Spreading Bed Straw. G. cinereum. Allion. G. diffusum. Hook. 
Near Kinnaird, Angus-shire, and on the banks of the river Leith, near 
Slateford, three miles from Edinburgh. Mr. G. Don. 
P. Aug. Sm. Hook. E.) 
(G. a&ist'atum. Leaves six in a whorl, stalked, lanceolate, flat, reti¬ 
culated with veins, bristle-pointed, with minute marginal 
prickles pointing forward. Stem much branched, spreading, 
smooth. Seeds smooth, kidney-shaped, separated. Blossom 
taper-pointed. 
Barr. Ic. 356— Bocc. Mus. 75. 
Stems numerous, a foot high, square.' Leaves sometimes only four or five 
in a whorl; the largest above an inch long, pliant, deep green on both 
sides, smooth except the edges, which are very minutely prickly. Flowers 
w r hite, in compound panicles, with perfectly smooth, slender, but not 
capillary stalks. Seeds becoming kidney-shaped as they ripen, with a 
central vacancy, smooth, or slightly granulated. 
Bearded Bed Straw. G. arista,turn. Linn.: with which he afterwards 
confounded his G. Icevigatum, which is the same with G. sylvaticnm, the 
G. aristatwn oi many succeeding authors. Communicated by Mr.G. Don, 
(as G. erectum,') from hilly ground in Angus-shire. Sm. E.) 
G. mollu'go. Leaves eight in a whorl, egg-strap-shaped, dagger- 
pointed : somewhat serrated, greatly expanded; stem feeble; 
branches greatly expanding. (Seeds smooth, globular. E.) 
FI. Fan. 455— (F. Bot. 1673. E.)— Ger. 967. 4 — Fuchs. 281— Loh. Ic. 802. 
2—J. B. iii. 716. I— Lob. Obs. 468. 1 — Ger. Em. 1118. 2—Pet. 30. 4— 
Matth. 921. 
Stem four-edged, branched; thickest just above the joints, nearly smooth. 
Leaves from six to eight in a whorl; unequal in size, oblong-egg-shaped. 
