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Bedstraw

noun

Any of several plants of the genus Galium.

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"Bedstraw" Quotes from Famous Books

... mingled with the beauty of the present evening to brighten his spirits. The marsh was all pied with white—pearly white of blowing cotton-grass; thick, deader white of water-cress in full flower; faint blurred white of thousands of the heath-bedstraw's tiny blossoms. Phoebe in her white gown sprang onto swaying tussocks and picked plumes of cotton-grass to trim herself a garden hat, and Ishmael steadied ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

... The bedstraw (Galium) also includes many species which from time to time produce twisted stems. I have found them myself in Holland on Galium verum and G. Aparine. Both seem [649] to be of rare occurrence, as I have not succeeded in getting any repetition ...

— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries

... of the Elephant feed on the plant called Ladies' Bedstraw, (Galium palustre), from which they are often shaken by the wind into the water. When this happens, they dexterously turn themselves on their backs, make head and tail meet, and float in this posture ...

— The Emperor's Rout • Unknown

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