234 RUBIACEAE. 



Galium aparine L. Stems weak and reclining, retrosely prickly on the 

 angles, 30-120 cm. long; leaves linear or linear-spatulate, mostly cuspidate 

 more or less retrorsely-hispid, especially on the margins and midribs, 5-8 cm. 

 long; pedicels from the upper axils or terminal, bearing solitary flowers, fruit 

 on erect pedicels, densely hispid with somewhat hooked bristles, 3-4 mm. broad. 

 In woods and copses. 



Galium vaillantii DC. Similar to G. aparine but smaller in every way, the 

 stems 10-30 cm. high, mostly erect; leaves 1-2 cm. long; flowers more numerous; 

 fruit about 2 mm. broad. In dry woods. 



Galium multiflorum Kellogg. Stems erect, tufted, 10-30 cm. high; leaves in 

 fours or the upper in twos, broadly ovate, sessile, mucronate, 5-15 mm. long; 

 flowers yellowish, dioecious or polygamous, short pedicelled, in rather dense 

 clusters or the fertile scattered; fruit densely bristly. In rocky ground, high 

 ridges of the Blue Mountains. 



Galium multiflorum watspni Gray. Like the species but the leaves oblong 

 and thinner. Blue Mountains, Homer. 



Galium boreal e L. Glabrous or nearly so; sterns rather slender, but erect, 

 30-60 cm. high, leafy; leaves 3-nerved, oblong-linear, lanceolate or linear, 

 obtuse to acuminate, mostly 1-3 cm. long; flowers white, in small cymes which 

 form a large terminal panicle; bract-like leaves much reduced and in pairs; 

 fruit globose, small, hispid, but becoming glabrous. Common in moist meadows 

 and on north hillsides. 



Galium trifidum subbiflorum Wiegand. Stems ascending, very weak 

 and slender, 15-20 cm. high, retrorsely scabrous on the angles; leaves linear, 

 scabrous on the margins and midribs; peduncles axillary or terminal, recurved, 

 mostly 1 -flowered; flowers very small, white, the parts often in threes; fruit 

 glabrous. In wet places. 



Galium asperrimum Gray. Stems weak, reclining, 30-120 cm. long, 

 retrorsely-hispid on the angles; leaves in sixes or on the smaller branches in 

 fives or fours, 1-nerved, narrowly oblong or lanceolate, cuspidate, shining 

 above, retrorsely hispid on the midribs and margins, 1-3 cm. long; cymes 

 loosely few-flowered, forming very large leafy panicles; peduncles and pedicels 

 very slender; corolla white; fruit about 2 mm. broad, roughened with short 

 tubercles or minutely hispidulous. Plentiful in moist copses. 



Galium triflorum Michx. Stems weak, prostrate to ascending, 30-100 cm. 

 long, retrorsely hispid on the angles; leaves lanceolate, bristle-tipped, 2-8 cm. 

 long; peduncles 3-flowered, rarely 6-flowered; flowers greenish-white, all 

 pedicelled; fruits covered with hooked bristles. In moist copses and open 

 woods. 



349. KELLOGGIA. 



Small perennial herbs with opposite leaves with stipules; 

 flowers small, in loose cymes or panicles, usually 4-merous; calyx- 

 teeth minute; corolla funnelform to salverform; stamens and 

 style more or less exserted; ovary 2-celled; fruit small, dry, 

 coriaceous, with hooked bristles, separating at maturity into 2 

 closed carpels. 



Kelloggia galioides Torr. Glabrous or nearly so; stems clustered, erect 

 or ascending, 10-30 cm. high; leaves lanceolate, sessile, 2-5 cm. long, the 

 stipules small and scarious, entire or 2-toothed; flowers on long pedicels, in a 

 loose cyme; corolla 4-5 mm. long, white or pinkish, the lobes about as long 

 as the tube; fruit oblong, covered with hooked bristles. In open woods in 

 the Blue Mountains. 



