1910] Fernald & Wiegand,— Two new Galiums 77 
from pubescent to sparsely pilose; leaves sometimes glabrous, some- 
times with scattered hairs. 
Agropyron Richardsoni (Vrin.) Schrad. var. ciliatum Scribn. & 
Sm. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. no. 4, 29 (Feb. 6, 1897). 
Specimens examined: New Yonk ?, Ex Coll. G. W. Clinton, “ Buf- 
falo, N. Y." 1: ONTARIO, Near Shannonville, Hastings Co., June 2, 
1865 (J. Macoun, no. 3): Iowa, Jewell Junction, July, 1895 (G. W. 
Carver, no. 255): MowvTraNa, Hound Creek Valley, August 1, 1883 
(F. Lamson Scribner, no. 422); Dry Fork of Belt Creek, August 14, 
1896 (P. A. Rydberg, no. 3352): Norra Dakota, Leeds, July 8, 1901 
(J. Lunell): British Corvwnpia, Field, August 19, 1904 (J. Macoun, 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 64790). 
TWO NEW GALIUMS FROM NORTHEASTERN AMERICA. 
M. L. FERNALD and K. M. WIEGAND. 
UxriL twelve years ago the group of slender, flaccid, blunt-leaved 
plants, of which Galium trifidum L. is the type, was supposed to be 
represented in North America by G. trifidum itself with two varieties 
and by the little known G. Brandegei Gray of the southern Rocky 
Mountains. In 1897, however, it was shown to consist of seven cl arly 
marked species and several varieties; and subsequently one of the 
plants of northeastern America, then considered a variety, has been 
found worthy of specific rank as G. labradoricum Wiegand.’ 
For several years there has been collected, chiefly on salt marshes 
and brackish soils about the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in eastern New- 
foundland and in eastern Maine, a plant which, in habit and elongate 
arching pedicels, is clearly a phase of Galium trifidum. But this 
plant of saline soils is almost invariably smooth, in all the material 
examined nearly or quite lacking the retrorse-scabrous character of 
true G. trifidum; and it has slightly larger fruit, the mature carpels 
being 1.5-1.75 mm. in diameter. On the other hand, all the material 
of G. trifidum from situations which are not saline is harsh with minute 
1]t is uncertain whether ‘‘ Buffalo, N. Y.," is only the collector’s address or also the 
place of collection. 
2 Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xxiv. 389-403 (1897). 
3 RuHopona, vi. 21 (1904). 
