Class IV. Order I. 37 



GALIUM BRACHIATUM. Muhl. Cross Cleavers. 



Stems erect, smooth ; leaves in fours, oval, cil- 

 iate ; peduncles divaricate, few flowered ; fruit 

 bristly. 



Syn. GALIUM CIRCAEZANS. Midi. 



Found in woods. Stem upright, smooth, minutely pubes- 

 cqnt. Leaves an inch, or an inch and an half long, and more 

 than half as broad, three nerved, hairy at the margin and nerves. 

 Branches few, near the top, opposite, few flowered. Peduncles 

 pearly simple, bent in various directions, making angles at ev- 

 ery flower, and giving off at the same time a minute leaf. Fruit 

 a little burr with its short footstalk reflected. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



GALIUM APARINE. L. Common Cleavers. 



Leaves in eights, lanceolate, carinate, rough, 

 prickly backwards ; stem flaccid ; fruit bristly. 

 Sm. 



Stem brittle, weak, much branched, prickly backward, lean- 

 ing upon other plants for support. Leaves in whorls of about 

 eight together, lance-obovate, their margin and keel rough 

 backward. Flowers numerous, small, white, on axillary and 

 terminal peduncles. Fruit hispid. In moist thickets. May, 

 June. Annual. 



46. CORNUS. 

 CORNUS CANADENSIS. L. Divarf Cornel. 



Herbaceous ; upper leaves in whorls, slightly 

 petioled, veined. Willd. 



A handsome plant of half a foot in height. Root creeping. 



