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plant, G. lanceolahini, with leaves more lance-oval in shape is 

 found from Quebec and Ontario to No. Carolina, and west- 

 ward. 



735. Bedstraw. Galium horcale. Smooth stemmed and mostly 

 without hairs. Leaves in 4's, lance-shaped, or lance-linear, i- 

 23/2 in. long, the margins somewhat hairy. Flowers all in 

 terminal clusters, white, the clusters branched. Fruit bristly. 

 In moist places. Quebec to New Jersey, Penn., and westward. 

 June. Fig. 735. 



736. Goose-grass. Galiiun Aparine. A weak bristly-stemmed 

 annual, sprawling over bushes. Leaves in 6's or 8's, linear or 

 lance-linear, 1-3 in. long, narrowed to a stalkless base, rough 

 on the margin and midrib. Flowers white, in sparse clusters, 

 from among the upper leaf-clusters, not at the ends of the 

 branches. Fruit bristly. Common in various places. New 

 l)runswick to Florida, and westward. May-September. 



737. Bedstraw. Galium asprcllum. Weak, branched, and re- 

 clining on bushes, the stems bristly and rough. Leaves in 

 6's or 5's, oval or lance-oval, bristly-margined, Vs-^ in. long. 

 Flowers white in terminal, forked clusters. Fruit smooth. 

 In moist places. Newfoundland and Ontario to No. Caro- 

 lina, and westward. July. Fig. 737. A related species, G. 

 Claytoni, with the leaves narrowed to a stalk-like base 

 is found in swamps. Quebec to No. Carolina, and west- 

 ward. 



738. Corolla decidedly unsymmetrical, or distinctly 2-lipped. 

 Fruits in opposite pairs, pointing downward. . .Lopseed no, 739 

 Fruits not so 



Foliage aromatic; stems mostly 4-sided. ..Mint Family no. 740 



Foliage not aromatic; stems not 4-sided 



Figwort Family no. 781 



739. Lopseed. Phryma Leptostacliya. (Phrymaccae.) An 

 erect, somewhat hairy perennial, with a 4-sided stem, i^- 

 3 ft. high. Leaves opposite, stalked, broadly oval, rounded at 

 the base, pointed at the tip, coarsely but not sharply toothed, 

 2-6 in. long. Flowers in long slender spikes which are often 



