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GALIUM TINCTORIUM LABRADORICUM DN. var. 
Low and strictly erect, 5-25 cm. high; branches few, ascend- 
ing, mostly from the upper nodes; stem as in the type; leaves 
small (7-8 mm. long), linear, reflexed; flowers large. 
In sphagnous bogs; Connecticut, New York and Wisconsin, 
northward to Labrador. 
Type in Herb. Cornell Univ.; Oswego Co., N. Y., Rowlee and 
Wiegand (1895). 
Connecticut: Torr. Herb. 
New York: Torr. Herb. 
Wisconsin: Lapham. 
Lake Superior: Lorings. 
Newfoundland: Waghorne (1893). 
Labrador: Storer. 
3. Gatium BranDEGEEI Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 12: 58. 1877- 
Perennial and cespitose forming dense mats; stems low and 
prostate or ascending (5-12 cm. long), slender and rather densely 
leafy, smooth or nearly so; branches when present solitary ; leaves 
in fours, unequal, obovate-spatulate, small (10 mm. or Jess), round- 
ed at the apex, cuneate at the base, somewhat fleshy, dull on both 
surfaces, veins indistinct, margins and midrib glabrous; flowers 
lateral, commonly gemmate, on glabrous arcuate pedicels which 
are as long or longer than the leaves; corolla of medium size, 
white 3—parted, lobes broadly oval, obtuse; fruit glabrous, endo- 
sperm spherical, hollow, annular in cross-section. 
This species is closely related to G. trifidum subbiflorum, but 
is distinguished by its peculiar matted habit, commonly glabrous 
stem, thicker leaves and stouter glabrous pedicels. In one of the 
Colorado plants the corolla shows a tendency to become 4-parted. 
Some California specimens have rough stems, 
Northern New Mexico and Arizona to California and the Sas- 
katchewan. 
New Mexico: Brandegee (1875) type. 
Arizona: 
California: Lemmon, no. 1217 (1875); Bolander, no. 5025 
(1866) ; Parish, no. 3320 (1894). 
Colorado: Crandall, no. 281 (1894). 
Wyoming : Nelson, no. 1763 (1895). 
Saskatchewan: Macoun (1885). 
