LADIES-BEDSTRAW, in botany, a genus of the tetrandra monogynia clas. The corolla consists of one plane petal; and the seeds are two, and round. There are 23 species, 11 of them natives of Britain, viz. the verum, or yellow ladies-bedstraw; the mollugo, or wild madder; the montanum, or mountain ladies-bedstraw; the uliginosum, or marsh goose-grass; the erectum, or small mountain bastard madder; the pulillum, or least ladies-bedstraw; the palustris, or white ladies-bedstraw; the spurius, or goose-grass with smoother seeds; the aparine, cleavers, or goose-grass; the parviflora, or least goose-grass; and the boreale, or crosswood madder.