GALIUM ULIGINOSUM. BOG GOOSE-GRASS, OR
ROUGH MARSH BED-STRAW.
GALIUM uliginosum foliis serais, lanceolatis, acuminulatis, lsevibus, marginibus retrorsum aculeatis;
caulibus erectiusculis, subscabris; fructu glabro, corolla minore.
GALIUM uliginosum, foliis senis lanceolatis retrorsum serrato-aculeatis mucronatis rigidis, corollis
fruCtu majoribus. Smith Fl. Brit. ml. Y.p. 17 5 .
GALIUM uliginosum. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 153. FI. Suec. n. 127. Pollich Pal. n. 150. Hofm.
Gef'tn.p.49. Roth Germ. ml. 1. p. 64. ml.-Q. p. 179. ILuds. Angl. p. 68. Sibth.'Ox.
p. 58. Relh. Cant. p . 65. With. Bot. Arr. ed. 4. ml. 2. p. 186. Light?. Scot. p. 115.
Engl. Bot. t. 1972. Georgii FI. Baikal, p. 199- Willd. Sp. Pi. ml. 2. p. 595. Lamarck
Fl. Fr. cd. 3. ml. 4. p. 259. Lam. Fl. Gall. Syn. p. 300. Deslongch. Fl. Gall. p . 81.
Pers. Syn. PI. ml. 1. p. 126. Wahl. Fl. Lapp. p . 47. Alton Hort. Kero. ed. 1. ml. 1.
p . 142. ed. 2. ml. l.p . 239. Jacq. Vind.p. 24.
GALIUM supinum ß . Lamarck Diet. ml. 2. p . 579.
GALIUM caule subaspero, foliis quaternis et senis spinula terminatis. Hall. Goet. p. 189.
GALIUM album minus. Petiv. Herb. p. SO. f . 6. Vaill. Par. p. 78. et p. 14. (fide Lam.) C. Bauh.
p. 335. v J
GALIUM foliis margine ciliato-scabris. Tourncf. Inst. Rei Herb. p. 114.
GALIUM aquatjeum, flore albo. Barrel. Ic. p. 82.
APARINE foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis rigidis, corollis fructu majoribus. Roy. Lugd. B at.p. 255.
APARINE palustris minor Parisiensis, flore albo. Dill, in Raii Syn. p. 225.
ALSINE minor palustris Parisiensis, flore albo. Linn. Fl. Lapp. p. 58.
MOLLUGO montana minor gallio albo similis. Raii Hist. p. 482.
RUBIA quffidam minor. J. Bauh. Hist. ml. S.p. 716.
Ü H ^ fa a . Fanniira. Muggi. Mugguragulm. Nonv. Smammur. Smaasmrt.
Welsh. Gzoe/idon arzo y migyn.
Class a n d Ojbdee. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
[Natural Ord er. EUBIACEÆ, Juss. Decandolle. APARINES, Adam. STELLATÆ, Linn.]
Ge n . Cha r. Cor. monopetala, plana. Semina duo, subrotunda.
Radix perennis, repens.
Cadlis debilis, pal maris et ultra, erectiusCulus, basi ple-
rumque decumbens, flexuosüs, subramosus, ge-
niculatus, quadrangulatus, angulis scabriusculis,
aculeis minutissimis, remotis, retrorsum reflexis.
Folia verticillata, sena, varie patentia, sæpe reflexa,
magnitudine æqualia, lanceolata, apice acuminu-
lata, rigida, subnitentia, uninervia, margine, ner-
voque subtus interdum, aculeis retrorsum spec-
tantibus scabra ; reliqua omnino glabra. Color,
etiam in exsiccatione pallide flavo-viridis.
Flores in ramulis lateralibus terminalesque. Paniculi
parvi, subcorymbosi, laxi', trifidi, basi foliosi,, fouis
senis, ultimis solum modo binis.
vuuujiirA• » Hrosui aAi..aA, -. ama, tructu r ityui, q u au rmu a , segmen-
WÊÊ tis ovatis, acutis.
Stamina quatuor. Filamenta brévia. Antheræ rotun-
datæ, flavæ.
Germen inferum. Stylus bifldus, segmentis divergenti-
bus. Stigma capitatum.
I'Rüctüs bilobus, lobis rotundatis, glabris. Semina duo.
Root perennial, creeping.
Stem weak, six inches or more in length, nearly erect,
a t the base generally decumbent, flexuose, somewhat
branched, geniculate, quadrangular, having
the angles rough with minute, distant aculei,
which are bent backward.
L eaves vertieillate, six together, variously patent, often
reflexed, equal in size, lanceolate, acuminulate
at the apex, rigid, somewhat shining, one-nerved,
with the margin and sometimes the nerve beneath
rough, the rest altogether smooth. Colour even
in the dried state pale-yellow green.
Flowers upon lateral ramules and likewise terminal.
Panicles small, somewhat corymbose, lax, trifid,
leafy at the base, with the leaves six together,
the uppermost only two.
Calyx adhering to the fruit.
Corolla rotate, white, larger than the fruit, quadrifid,
with the segments ovate, acute.
Stamens four. Filaments short. Anthers roundish,
yellow.
Germen below the Corolla. Style bifid, with the segments
diverging. Stigma capitate.
Fr u it two-lobed, the lobes rounded, smooth. Seeds two.
Fig. 3. Flower magnified. Fig. 4. Anthers. Fig. 5. Germen with the style°and stigma. ’
! that t0 which our present plant is most nearly allied is undoubtedly
selves o X T f f j P P the of Withering (not of Linnæus). Possessing no speciméns ourliave
H H po,nt only such discriminating characters as those with which the authors just mentioned
In the former Hip' So,m.e f # s'of d,fference indeed are observable between the figures o f Withering and of Smith,
merely said to H K f • b,e s -em a’.'e r®Pr“ e1nt®d 88 pointing upwards, whUe in the description the,stems are
! «re said to be HSÉ1 - P M f Lnghsb Botany they P0,nt downwards, and in the description the stems
bristleTorh o o ^ i u ■ ' f , l i f t | S?th, however accord in the margins of the leaves being rough with
to a species rest! Ti I H Up !'ds ; and ^ 1S ?haracter>lf constant, seems to be the only one on which its claim
Sir i B B i | Ü leaf accord‘ng to Withering is tipped with a hair, and not with a rigid bristle or prickle :
\ to be red-brown ’„ 'Vo c°nt*'ary> says it ls often tipped with a bristly point. The anthers are, by Withering, said
I be at first of 1 É B f® :Pl l to I cI° T t0 the base 5 whilst in English Botany the anthers are stated to
than balfwavdL-n" n •°'y 5reen’ reddlsh or red-brown, and the pistil is represented as not divided more
Galium samtUp ) c trust at some future opportunity to be better acquainted with this species.
|. many chamois ; ^ o f Withering, and montanum of Hudson,) deserves mention here, from its having ,
; Bent plant, aid thou^Tf h" f t ? ullShwmm- Independently of its different place of growth, it is a procum-
lanceolate ) and termin i l!mbei. SIze m.ore robust in habit ; its leaves are more closely set, obovate, obtuse, (not
1 c°mpactly’clnstr!ri 0!u a S°,rt po,nt| tbe aculej of til.eir margins point upwards, and the flowers are more
G. pusillim it diffpr« •ac|ded. t0 which, the whole plant in drying becomes nearly black, like G. palustre. From
I to be only smiwK P , avmS *ew®r leaves< and in the roughness of the stalk and leaves, both of which are said
Lamarck i l • p m G- Podium.
I us that it is S niade the.G* uliSinosum of Linnæus the vai-iety (3. of his G. supinum, assuring
! having the leaves P shable fl'om hls «• 111 having the stems “ un peu velues, pu hérissées inférieurement,” and in
mined them to |J M ■ boidci ,But Decandolle in the last edition of his Flore Française has deters
! m°re erect growth - ! ï nct that G. uliginosum may be known from supinum by its larger size and
! Ü H naked 4 f ^yi by the a”gles of th.e stem beinS so rou8h with curved aculei that they are visif
With us G ni' ye> wbl .t-in the last-mentioned species they are smooth.
[ dine as that speaKT*™* *S abundan^in ^ wet places, such as produce the G. palustre, flowering about the same