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G A L I UM aristalum.
Bearded Bedstraw.
TE TR ANDRIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cor. of one petal, flat, superior. Seeds
2, roundish.
Spec. Char. Leaves six in a whorl, stalked, lanceolate,
flat, reticulated with veins, bristle-pointed,
with minute, marginal prickles pointing forward.
Stem much branched, spreading, smooth. Seeds
smooth, kidney-shaped, separated. Corolla taper
pointed.
Syn. G. aristatum. Linn. Sp. PI. 152. Sm. Engl.
FI. v. 1.203. Lindl. Syn. 129. Hook. Brit.
FI. ed. 2. 66.
G. foliis pluribus lanceolatis, pedunculis in sumrao
caule floriferis. Van Royen Prod. 256.
G. album linifolium. Barrel. Ic. v. 1. 12. t. 356.
Rubia Levis linifolia, floribus albis. Bocc. Mus.
v. 1. 83. t. 75.
D r AWN from specimens collected by Mr. G. Don in
Angusshire and preserved in Sir J . E. Smith’s herbarium.
“ The stems are numerous, a foot high, upright, with copious
spreading branches, square, very smooth. Leaves six
in a whorl on the main stem, and often on the branches,
though sometimes but four or five, the largest above an inch
long, on short, broad stalks, elliptic-lanceolate, flat, pliant,
deep green on both sides, with many interbranching veins,
smooth except the edges, which are very minutely prickly.