GALIUM tricorne.
Corn Bedstraw.
TETRANDRIA Monogynia.
G en. Char. Cor. of one petal, flat, superior. Seeds 2,
roundish.
Spec. Char. Leaves about eight in a whorl, their margin,
as well as the stem, rough with reflexed prickles.
Flower-stalks axillary, three-flowered. Fruit granulated,
drooping.
Syn . Galium tricorne. With. ed. 2, 153. Sm. FL
Brit. 176. Relh. 56.
G. spurium. Huds. 68. With. 190. Sihth. 59.
Abbot. 3 3 .
Valantia Aparine. Mart. Rust. t. 122.
Aparine semine laeviore. Raii Syn. 2 2 5 .
G A TH E R E D in June 1806, by Mr. D. Turner and Mr.
W . Borrer, in fields near Carisbrook, Isle of Wight. It has
been found occasionally in various parts of England, in dry
chalky fields, and generally taken for G. spurium of Linnseus,
a species distinct from this, which we have received from
Mr. G. Donn, who found it near Forfar, since the publication
of FI. Brit. We hope to obtain living specimens, in order to
publish a figure at some future opportunity.
G. tricorne has a small annual root, producing several weak
simple leafy stems, whose angles are rough with prickles
pointing downwards. The leaves grow commonly 8 in a
whorl, and their edges, sometimes their keels, are rough with
similar prickles. Flowerstalks axillary, solitary, alternate,
scarcely s c long as the leaves, prickly in the same manner,
three-cleft, bearing mostly 3 flowers and a pair of bracteas.
The flowers are cream-coloured, rarely all fertile. Stalks
curved downward after flowering. Fruit rather "large, granulated
with little points, and looking as if it had been shaved
with a razor.