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Grows on mountains or hills. It apparently differs from Galium 

 asprelhmi Michx., by the more diffuse and longer stem, the filiform 

 peduncles, the looser inflorescence, the ojreenish flower, the uncinato-hispid 

 fruit, the bifid style, and the opposite bracts. It resembles some form of 

 Galium trijiorum Michx.; its flower is perfectly similar to that of the latter, 

 but the uncinate hairs on the fruit are characteristic. 



Galium Niewerthi Franch. et Sav. Enum. ri. Jap. 11. (1879) p. 

 393 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 802. 



Perennial, attaining about Sdecim. long. Stem weak, slender, glabrous, 

 few-branching at the base, often branched above. Leaves 5-4- or 6- 

 verticillate, patent or erect-patent, elliptico-oblong to narrow-oblong, abruptly 

 cuspidate or short-acuminate, acute at the base, subsessile, antrorsely sparsely 

 muricato-hispid and hispid-ciliated, 1-nerved, attaining 26 mm. long, 9 mm. 

 wide. Peduncles not long, terminal and lateral and forming together a loose 

 terminal panicle, filiform, di-trichotomous ; pedicels capillary, longer than the 

 fruit ; bracts acuminato-linear ; bracteoles minute and setaceous. Flower 

 small, greenish, 2mm. across. Corolla patent, 4-parted; lobes elliptical- 

 ovate, beaked at the apex. Stamens short. Style shorter than the corolla, 

 connate at the base. Fruit glabrous, 2imm. long, the mericarp oblong. 



Nom. Jap. Yahu-mugura. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Shinagawa {T. 3Iahino\ June 25, 1886), 

 Dokwan-yama {T. Mahino\ Aug. 17, 1888, June 1896), Komaba {T. 

 Malcino ! Aug. 12, 1891), Near Akabane {T. Malcino ! Sept. 1894). 



Allied to Galium pseudo-asprellum Makino, but the stem is shorter 

 and glabrous, the leaves are antrorsely muricato-hispid and usually fewer in 

 number in whorls, and the fruit is quite glabrous. This is not uncommon 

 in wooded hills near Tokyo. 



Galium Aparine Linn, forma leiocarpum Makino, supra }). 43. = 

 Galium Aparine Linn. var. spurium Koch Syu. Fl. Germ, et Ilelv. 

 ed. 3, p. 283 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IL ]% 420. 



Galium spurium Linn. Cod. n. 865 ; DC. Prodr. IV. p. 608 ; Ledeb. 

 Fl. Alt. I. p. 134. 



Galium liispidum lloth. 



Galium agrede j3. Iciospcrmum Wallr. 



