galium

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A bouquet of shaded colors, with a few sprays of galium or the perennial gypsophila, makes one of the choicest of table decorations Deep, mellow soil, early planting, and heavy mulching suit them admirably.

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  1. A plant of the genus Galium.
  2. [capitalized] A large genus of rubiaceous herbs, with square slender stems, verticillate estipulate leaves, small tetramerous and usually white flowers, and a single seed in each of the two cells of the fruit, which is dry or sometimes berry-like. The stems are often retrorsely hispid, and the fruit is frequently armed with minute hooked prickles. The roots of many species yield a purple dye. There are about 200 species, found in all temperate regions, over 30 occurring in the United States. The goosegrass or cleavers, G. Aparine, is a common species very widely distributed around the globe. Various species are popularly known as bedstraw. The yellow or lady's bedstraw, G. verum, has yellow flowers, as has also the crosswort, G. cruciatum. The former is employed in some parts of Great Britain for coagulating milk.

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  1. New Latin, from L. *galium, galion, from Greek γάλιον, galium (so called in allusion to the use of Galium verum in curdling milk), from γάλα, milk: see galactic.
 

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