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RUBIACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



12. Galium triflorum Michx. Sweet- 

 scented or Fragrant Bedstraw. 

 Fig- 3939- 



Galium triflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 80. 1803. 



Perennial, diffuse, procumbent, or ascending, 

 glabrous or nearly so, shining, fragrant in drying, 

 the stems and margins of the leaves sometimes 

 roughened. Leaves in 6's, narrowly oval or 

 slightly oblanceolate, i-nerved, cuspidate at the 

 apex, narrowed at the base, i'-3^' long, 2" '-6" 

 wide; peduncles slender, terminal and axillary, 

 o f ten exceeding the leaves, 3-flowered or branched 

 into 3 pedicels which are i-3-flowered; flowers 

 greenish; fruit \\"-2" broad, hispid with hooked 

 hairs; seed almost spherical, the groove obsolete. 



In woods, Greenland to Alaska, south to Florida, 

 Louisiana, Colorado and California. Also in north- 

 ern Europe, Japan and the Himalayas. June-Aug. 

 Three-flowered bedstraw. 



13. Galium latifolium Michx. Purple 

 Bedstraw. Fig. 3940. 



Galium latifolium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 79. 

 1803. 



Perennial, erect, smooth and glabrous (rarely 

 hispid), branched, i-2 high. Leaves in 4's, 

 lanceolate, 3-nerved, acute or acuminate at 

 the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, 

 i '-2' long, 4"-8" wide, the midrib sometimes 

 pubescent beneath, the margins minutely 

 roughened, the lower smaller and sometimes 

 opposite; peduncles axillary and terminal, 

 slender, but usually shorter than the leaves; 

 flowers purple; cymes loosely many-flowered, 

 the pedicels slender, 2"-6" long, smooth or 

 very nearly so; fruit smooth, slightly fleshy, 

 2" broad, usually only one of the carpels de- 

 veloping. 



In dry woods in mountainous regions, Penn- 

 sylvania to Tennessee and Georgia. May-Aug. 



*. Ci. 



14. Galium arkansanum A. Gray. Ar- 

 kansas Bedstraw. Fig. 3941. 



Galium arkansanum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 19: 80. 1883. 



Similar to the preceding species but usually 

 lower, the leaves linear-lanceolate, 6"-i2" long, 

 i "-3" wide, the lateral nerves obscure or none, 

 the midrib sometimes pubescent beneath, and 

 the margins ciliate ; fruiting pedicels roughish, 

 3"-i2" long ; flowers brown-purple, the numer- 

 ous cymes loosely several-many-flowered ; fruit 

 glabrous, warty, somewhat fleshy, each carpel 

 i"-i$" in diameter. 



Southern Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. 

 June-July. 



