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er, and giving- off at the same time a minute leaf. Fruit a little 

 burr with its short footstalk reflected, as in Circaea, with uncinate 

 bristles. June, July. Perennial. 



* GALIUM TORREYI. Acuminate Galium. 



G. caule erecto ; foliis quaternis lanceolatis, 

 acuminatis; pedunculis paucifloris; fructu hispido. 



Stem erect ; leaves in fours, lanceolate acuminate ; 

 peduncles few flowered ; fruit hispid. 



Syn. GALIUM CIRCAEZANS -var. lanceolalum. Torrey. N. Y. Cat. 



This species is a congener of the preceding, and closely re- 

 sembles it in its mode of flowering and fruit. Its leaves, how- 

 ever, are narrower, twice as long, and attenuated to a long 

 point, giving it a very different aspect. It is generally less cili- 

 ate. From G. septentrionale it differs in its leaves being lan- 

 ceolate, not linear, and three or four times as large. The fruit 

 also is scattered, and nearly sessile on virgated stalks, not form- 

 ing a thick panicle as in that species. Woods. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



This plant and the preceding are sometimes called Liquorice 

 by the country people. 



GALIUM TRTFIDUM. [Villd. Small Cleavers. 



Stems procumbent, rough backward ; leaves of the 

 stem in fives, of the branches in fours, linear, obtuse, 

 rough on the edge ; flowers mostly trifid ; fruit 

 smooth. 

 Syn. GALIUM CLATTONI. MX. 



This is our smallest species, and its corollas have frequently 

 but three segments. It agrees sufficiently well with the Euro- 

 pean plant figured by Oeder, though some have separated it. 

 Wet grounds. July. 



GALIUM TRIFLORUM. MX. Three flowered Cleavers. 



Stems procumbent, smoothish ; leaves in sixes, 

 obovate-lanceolate, smooth, scarcely ciliate ; branches 

 elongated, three flowered ; flowers pedicelled, fruit 

 hispid. 



