1912} Long,— Galium labradoricum in Pennsylvania 199 
GALIUM LABRADORICUM IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
BAYARD LONG. 
In the summer of 1910 it was my fortune to make the acquaintance 
of Galium labradoricum Wiegand in its native bogs along the lower St. 
Lawrence in the Province of Quebec, Canada. Among the host of 
interesting plants new to me, this humble little bed-straw, for some 
reason, was always of particular interest whenever it was found at a 
new locality. Doubtless its comparatively late recognition and its 
perfect distinctness from allies which at one time were a fertile source 
of considerable confusion, made it a pleasing species to know in the 
field. 
When, during the following winter, in examining and identifying 
some local collections of Mr. Harold W. Pretz of Allentown, Penn- 
sylvania, I came upon several sheets of this same little Galium, I 
naturally at once wrote him for more data and information regarding 
its occurrence, since to the best of my knowledge the species had not 
been known south of west-central New York! and northwestern 
Connecticut.’ 
I learned that Mr. Pretz’s plants had come from Monroe County, 
Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Saylorsburg. Through his kindness, 
I was enabled on August 6, 1911, to visit the locality with him. Mr. 
Pretz’s original collection was on June 13, 1909, when the plant was 
found in good flower, but this second time in 1911 we were not so 
fortunate: the flowering-season was past and even good fruit was rare. 
The locality lies in the terminal-moraine region just north of the 
main ridge of the Blue Mountains, between Wind Gap and Saylors- 
burg. There is a line of bogs here near the head of Aquashicola * 
Creek, supporting species like Salix candida and Lobelia Kalmii, 
plants which ordinarily find the southern limit of their range within 
1 Wiegand, Ruopora, vi. 21 (1904); Haberer, Ruopora, vii. 109 (1905). 
2 Bissell, Ruopora, v. 33 (1903). 
3 The United States Official Postal Guide has been followed in the spelling of this 
name, since there would seem to be no logical reason why the name of the creek should 
be spelled differently from that of the village, and since considerable discrepancy 
was found to occur upon the various maps consulted. "The spelling used in the Second 
Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (G5. p. 29) and in J. L. Smith's Topographical, 
Township and Railroad Map of Pennsylvania is Aquanchicola. 
