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its more robust habit, clustered terminal flowers and stouter gla- 
brous pedicels. The southern Atlantic specimens have broader 
leaves and more slender pedicels than the type. 
Swamps, Massachusetts and New York to North Carolina, 
Texas, Michigan and Nebraska. 
Massachusetts : Boott (185 3). 
New York: Dudley and others. 
Virginia: Small (1892); Heller (1893); Britton (1892). 
North Carolina: Beardslee and Kofoid (1891); Torr. Herb. 
Ohio: Sullivant. 
Michigan: Farwell, no. 758 (1890). 
Mlinots : Eggert (1891). 
Nebraska: Rydberg, no. 1840; Clements no. 2554 (1893). In 
part. 
Texas: Reverchon (1876). 
New Mexico: Wright, no. 1115 (1851). 
v6, GALIUM CYMOSUM nD. sp. 
Perennial; erect or ascending, 3-8 dm. high; stem 4-angled, 
more or less roughened, internodes long (4-6 cm.), diffusely 
branched, branches in 2’s or 3’s; leaves in 5’s or 6's, linear, 10-17 
mm. long, obtuse, thin, scabrous on the margin and midrib, scarcely 
papillose ; flowers numerous, in terminal and lateral cymes; bracts 
foliaceous, small ; pedicels short and slender, in flower mostly di- 
varicate, in fruit strongly so; corolla white, large (2 mm. diam.), 
'3-parted, lobes triangular-ovate, obtuse; fruit glabrous ; endosperm 
spherical and hollow, in cross-section annular. : 
Plant with an aspect intermediate between G. Clayfoni and G. 
asprellum. 
Oregon to British Columbia. 
Type in Herb. Cornell Univ. Tacoma, Washington, J. B. 
Fleet (1896). 
Oregon: Hall, no. 232 (1871). 
Lritish Columbia: Scouler. 
7. GALIUM PALUSTRE L. Sp. Pl. 105. 1753. ° 
Fl. Dan. p/. 423. G. trifidum (in part) and G. “nctorium (in 
part) of American authors. 
? G. trifidum bifolium Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, 202. 1884. 
Perennial, erect and rather slender, about 40 cm. high; inter- 
nodes very long (middle 6-7 cm. long), short branches mostly in 
