Rubiaceae 263 



Rockies, at the lower altitudes; the bright 

 little flowers suggesting violets; flowering 

 during June. 



RUBIACE.E 

 Madder Family 



In our species, herbs with 4-angled stems 

 and branches, with verticillate leaves and 

 small 4- parted flowers, regular and perfect 

 and fruit separating into 2 -carpels. 



Galium Smooth, erect, simple or branched , 

 boreale L. leafy, 1-2^ feet high. Leaves 



Northern in 4 > S) i ance olate or linear 3- 

 Bedstraw. 



nerved, obtuse or acute, 1-2$ 

 inches long, the margins sometimes fringed 

 with hairs. Flowers white, numerous in a 

 terminal panicle; corolla 4-parted, J of an 

 inch across, the lobes lanceolate, acute. 



In open ground and in open woods or 

 thickets at the lower altitudes, throughout 

 the Rockies ; flowering in July. ' 



