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small, yellow, green, or white, mostly in rather open lax clus- 

 ters. Corolla almost without a tube, its 4 lobes somewhat 

 flattened. Fruit 2-lobed, smooth or hairy or bristly. (Rub- 

 iaceae.) See also Nos. 689, 693, and 694. There are several 

 other species. 



Flov/ers yellow Lady's Bedstraw no. yzz 



Flowers white or green! 

 Leaves in clusters of 4 



Leaves oval Cross Cleavers no. 734 



Leaves lance-shaped or lance-linear Bedstraw no. 735 



Leaves in clusters of 5 or 6, or more 



Fruit bristly ; flower clusters from among the leaves 



Goose-grass no. y^fi 



Fruit smooth ; flower clusters at the ends of the branches 

 Bedstraw no. yz? 



733. Lady's Bedstraw. Galium vcriim. Mostly erect, 6-20 in. 

 high, the stem smooth or finely roughened. Leaves in 6's or 

 8*s, linear, almost thread-like. Flowers yellow, in small but 

 profuse terminal clusters. Fruit smooth. In fields and waste 

 places. Maine and Ontario to New York and Penn. Eurasian. 

 May-September. Fig. 733. 



734. Cross Cleavers. Galium circaen^ans. A somewhat hairy, 

 but not rough-stemmed plant with the leaves in 4's. Leaves 

 stalkless, oval or lance-oval, 3^-1 ^^ in. long, Y^-Ya in. wide. 

 Flowers white, in sparse clusters that arise among the leaves, 

 and may also be terminal. Fruit bristly. In dry places. Quebec 

 and Ontario to Florida, and westward. June. A related 



