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Northern Bedstraw 



Galium boreale Linnaeus 



Plate 2opa 



Stems erect, smooth, rather stiff, sharply angled, simple or branched, 

 i to 2\ feet high, usually a few or several stems from a perennial root. 

 Leaves in fours, lanceolate or linear, entire, conspicuously three-nerved, 

 blunt or pointed at the apex, sometimes the margins ciliate, i to 2\ inches 

 long, one-twelfth to one-fourth of an inch wide. Flowers white, panicled 

 in small, compact cymes, forming a terminal inflorescence often 3 to 6 

 inches long. Corolla four-lobed. Fruit hispid when young, sometimes 

 becoming almost smooth when mature, about one-twelfth of an inch broad. 



In rocky soil or along streams and lake shores, Quebec to Alaska, south 

 to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico and 

 California. Also found in Europe and northern Asia. Flowering from 

 May to August. 



There are about seventeen species of Bedstraw (Galium) found in 

 New York, most of them with small, inconspicuous flowers, some of them 

 introduced species. The Yellow Bedstraw (Galium verum Linnaeus) 

 with yellow flowers, is native of Europe, but frequent as a naturalized plant 

 in many localities. 



Honeysuckle Family 



Caprifoliaceae 

 Twinflower; Deer Vine 



Linnaea americana Forbes 



Plate 2133 



A creeping and trailing, slender, vinelike plant, with scarcely woody, 

 perennial stems, 6 to 24 inches long, slightly pubescent. Leaf blades ever- 

 green, opposite, rounded or obovate, obscurely crenate on the margins, 

 one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch wide and rather thick in texture on 

 petioles one-twelfth to one-sixth of an inch long. Flowers fragrant, pink, 

 borne in pairs at the summit of elongated terminal stalks. Calyx five-lobed. 

 Corolla funnelform, nodding, one-third to one-half of an inch long and five- 



