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G A L I U M anglicum.
Small Ladies-ledjlraw.
T E T R A N D R 1 A Monogynia.
G en. C har. Cor. of one petal, flat. Seeds two,
roundith.
Spec. C har. Leaves about fix in a whorl, lanceolate,
pointed, ciliated with prickles. Stems ftraggling,
rough. Flower-ftalks cloven. Fruit without hairs.
Syn . Galium anglicum. Hudf. FI. An. 69. Witi.
Bot. Arr. 153.
G. parifiente. Relh. Cant. 67. Linn. Sp. PI. 157-
Aparine minima. Rail Syn. 2,2$. t. 9.ƒ. 1.
S e N T from Cambridgefhire by the Rev. Mr. Hemfted. It
is found alfo in Norfolk and Suffolk, though very rarely, for the
moft part upon walls in a dry fandy foil, flowering in June and
July, after which the plant is foon dried up and periflies.
Root fmall, annual. Stems feveral, fpreading, branched,
fquare, their angles rough with reflexed bridles. Leaves fmall,
about 6 in a whorl, reflexed, lanceolate, pointed, their edges,
and fometimes their upper furface, rough with bridles pointing
forwards. Flower-dalks terminal, flender, fmooth, forked,
with a pair of leaves at their fird divarication, and here and
there a minute folitary leaf above. Flowers pale greenifli yellow,
very fmall, with pointed ribbed petals. Germen and fruit
deditute of hairs, but when magnified they appear rough with
minute tubercles.
This may poflibly be, as Dr. Stokes fufpefted, merely a
variety of the G. parifienfe. of Linnseus ; for no difference is
difcoverable between his original fpecimens and ours, except
the fruit of the former being thickly clothed with prominent
hairs. Whether the abovementioned tubercles on the fruit of
G. anglicum may, in any circumdanees, produce fuch hairs, has
not yet been afcertained. In the mean while we here exhibit
what is undoubtedly Mr. Hudfon’s plant, as well as Ray’s, that
there may be no uncertainty about that part of the queftion in
future.