TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Galium. 225 
a little hairy on the back and at the edges. Flowers very numerous, on 
fruit-stalks rising from the whorls of leaves ; generally two long and two 
short flowering branches from each whorl. Blossom white. Seeds two, 
smooth; one generally much larger than the other. In a cultivated state 
it grows quite upright, strong, and three or four feet high. 
Var. 2. Leaves very entire, reflexed; seldom exceeding three or four inches 
in height. Scop. Mollugo rnontana minor , Galio albo similis. R. Syn. 
224, seems at least to comprehend this variety as well as G. procumbens. 
Malvern Hills. Stokes. 
(Var. 3. G. scabrum. With.; but not of Jacquin, according to Smith. 
G. Mollugo (3. FI. Brit. 
Stems and leaves closely beset with short soft hairs. Fruit-stalks smooth ; 
Dr. Stokes, by whom this hairy variety was observed in a hedge row in 
marley soil on the side of the Red-house lane, near Worcester. E.) 
Madder Goose Grass. White Ladies’ Bed Straw. Great Bas¬ 
tard Madder. (Great Hedge Bed Straw. E.) Hedges, roughs, 
and heaths, frequent. (On open chalky hills it is of more humble 
growth. E.) P. June—Aug. 
G. tricor'ne. (Leaves about eight in a whorl, lanceolate, with re¬ 
flexed marginal prickles, like those on the stem: stalks axillary, 
three-flowered: fruit sharply granulated, drooping. Sm. 
E. Bot. 1641. E.)— Vaill. 4. 3. 
Fruit-stalks bearing three greenish white flowers curved downwards. 
Leaves from six to eight; upper surface smooth, keel rough. Fruit 
roughish, beset with a number of minute tubercles, but which do not 
terminate in hairs. Pollich. Pedicles sometimes with one leaf at the 
base. Florets sometimes all three, not unfrequently two, though com¬ 
monly only one, hermaphrodite. Stems upright, a foot high, or more; 
not branched. Whole plant harsh and rough. Leaves serrated with 
strong reflexed prickles. 
Three-flowered Goose Grass. (Rough-fruited Corn Bed Straw. 
G. spurium. With. Ed. 3 and 4. G. tricorne. With. Ed. 2. Neither Va- 
lantia aparine of Linn, nor exactly G. spurium of Huds. or of Linn. Sm. 
E.) Corn-fields. Monk Tryston, between Ferrybridge and Selby, on a 
lime-stone soil, plentiful; and near Wetherby, Yorkshire. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. Corn-fields, Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire. Mr. Swayne. (Fields 
lie hr Carisbrook, Isle of Wight. Mr. Turner. Fulwell Hills, near Sun¬ 
derland. Mr. E. Robson, in Winch Guide. E.) A. June—July. 
G. ve'rum. Leaves eight in a whorl, strap-shaped, grooved; flowers 
in dense panicles. 
{Curt. — E. Bot. 660— FI. Dan. 1146. E.)— Kniph. 6— Ludw. 39— Mill. 139. 
1— Sheldr. 61— Fuchs. 196— J. B. iii. 720. 1— Trag. 492— Dod. 3 65. 1 
— Lob. Obs. 467. 3— Ger. Em. 1126. 1— Park. 564. 1— H. Ox. ix. 21. row 
2. 1. Galium—Matth. 1131— Ger. 967. 1 —Blaclcw. 435— Pet. 30. 8. 
Stems with large joints, cylindrical (eighteen inches high, somewhat woody, 
square. E.), striated, rather downy. Leaves smooth, rolled back at the 
edges; from five to nine in a whorl, but generally eight upon the princi¬ 
pal stem. Blossom segments greatly expanded. Styles cloven more than 
half way down. Blossom yellow; numerous, (smelling of honey, very 
strongly in the evening, or before rain. Fruit small, globose, blackish. 
Sm. E.). 
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