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RUBIACEAE 



Galium 



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Map 1926 



Galium concmnum T & G 



Map 1927 

 Galium asprellum Michx. 



very variable. There were plants with all of the fruit glabrous, plants with 

 some of the fruit more or less glabrous, and some plants with all of the 

 fruit rather densely pubescent. 



N. S. to Mich, and Nebr., southw. to N. C. and Ariz. 



8. Galium parisiense L. Map 1925. This species was found by R. C. 

 Friesner in 1935 in an abandoned field on the east side of State Road 135 

 about 0.3 mile north of Bean Blossom, Brown County. He says that it 

 was common over at least three acres of a large field. In 1939 he re- 

 visited this place and reported it even more common than in 1935. 



Nat. of Eu. ; sparingly introduced, Va., N. C., Ind., and Tenn. 



9. Galium concinnum T. & G. PRETTY Bedstraw. Map 1926. Frequent 

 in rich, dry woods throughout the state. In 1916 I met a man near Lake 

 George in Steuben County who makes a tea from this plant and who 

 says that it is an infallible remedy for kidney disorders and dropsy. 



N. J. to Minn., southw. to Va. and Ark. 



10. Galium asprellum Michx. Rough Bedstraw. Map 1927. A plant 

 mostly of springy places and swamps where it usually climbs upon vegeta- 

 tion to a height of 3 to 5 feet. It is very local and is found mostly in the 

 northern half of the state. 



Newf. to Minn., southw. to N. C, 111., Mo., and Nebr. 



1 1 . Galium labradoricum Wieg. Map 1928. Local. Generally in sphag- 

 num in tamarack bogs, marshes, and sedge borders of lakes. 



Lab. to Wis., southw. to n. Conn., N. Y., and Ind. 



12. Galium tinctorium L.* (Galium Clayton i Michx.) Map 1929. In- 

 frequent in all parts of the state in swampy woods, about ponds, and along 

 ditches. 



Newf., N. Y., and Mich, to Nebr., southw. to Fla. and Tex. 



13. Galium trifidum L. Map 1930. Very local; in marshes and bogs. 

 There are 18 reports of it from south of the lake area. I believe all of 



*For a discussion of this species see Rhodoi'a 41: 388. 1939. 



