RUBIACEAE (MADDER FAMILY) 



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8. G. kamtscMticum Steller. Stems weak, mainly glabrous, 1-3 dm. long; 

 leaves orbicular to oblong-ovate, thin, 1-3 cm. long, slightly pilose ; flowers 

 slender-pediceled ; corolla glabrous, yellowish-white, not turning dark,'z7.s lobes 

 merely acute. — Mts. of Cape Breton I., Que., N. E., and N. Y. (K. Asia.) 



0. G. circaezans Michx. (Wild Liquorice.) More or less pubescent, 

 3 dm. high ; leaves oval, varying to ovate-oblong, mostly obtuse, ciliate, 1.5-4.6 

 cm. long ; peduncles usually once forked, the branches elongated and widely 

 diverging in fruit, bearing several remote flowers on very short lateral pedicels, 

 reflexed in fruit; lobes of the greenish corolla hairy outside, acute or acuminate. 

 — Rich woods, s. Me. and w. Que. to Minn., s. to Fla. and Tex. Var. c;k1i{iu:.m 

 Britton. Smoothish, leaves sparingly pubescent on the upper surface or merely 

 ciliate; corolla glabrous. (Var. glabellum Britton.) — Rensselaer, Albany, 

 and Washington Cos., N. Y. (according to Peck). 



10. G. lanceolatum Torr. (Wild Liquokice.) Nearly glabrous; leaves 

 (except the lowest) lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, tapering to the apex, 3-7.5 

 cm. long ; corolla glabrous, yellowish, turning dull purple, its lobes more acumi- 

 nate ; otherwise like the preceding. — Dry woods, s. Me. and w. Que. to Minn., 

 s. to O., Ky., and Va. 



11. G. latifblium Michx. Smooth, 3-6 dm. high ; leaves lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, 3-6 cm. long, the midrib and margins rough, the lateral nerves 

 prominent; cymes panicled, loosely many-flowered, the purple forcers on slender 

 spreading pedicels; fruit rather fleshy. — Dry woods, mts. of Pa. to N. C. and 

 Tenn. Var. hispidum Small. Stems and leaves hispid. — Iron Mts., Va. 



12. G. arkansanum Gray. Similar; leaves lanceolate to linear, 2-3.5 cm. 

 long, the lateral nerves obscure or none. — Rocky woods, s. Mo., Ark., and Okla. 



13. G. boreale L. (Northern B.) Smooth, 3-9 dm. high; leaves in 4's, 

 linear-lanceolate -, flowers bright white, in compact panicles ; 

 fruit minutely bristly, sometimes smooth. — Rocky banks, 

 shores, etc., Que. to Alaska, s. to N. J., Pa., Mich., Mo., 

 S. Dak., Col., etc.; rare eastw. 



14. G. MoLLUGO L. Perennial, smooth throughout or 

 pubescent below ; stems erect or diffuse, usually numerous, 

 3-9 dm. long; leaves in 8's or on the branchlets in 6's, 

 904. G. Mollugo. oblanceolate to nearly linear ; flowers ichite, very numerous 



in loose ample almost \e&^ess panicles ; branches and pedi- 

 cels mostly wide-spreading ; fruit smooth. — Roadsides and fields, 

 Nfd. to Del. and O. (Nat. from Eu.) Fig. 904. 



15. G. ERECTUM Huds. Similar ; stems mostly erect ; flowers 

 fewer and slightly larger ; the branches and pedicels mostly 

 ascending. — Fields, etc., e. Que. to Vt. and Ct. (Nat. from 

 P:u.) Fig. 905. 



16. G. SYLVATicuM L. (ScoTCH MiST, Baby's Breath.) 

 Stems very many, tall, suberect, shining, somewhat geniculate 

 at base ; lower leaves 8, upper 4 or 6 in a whorl, acuminate, 

 smooth, entire, glaucous beneath ; pedicels capillary, very ascend- qq^ q erectum 

 ing, in loose terminal panicles ; fruit smooth. — Fields and 



thickets, N. E., escaped from cultivation. (Introd. 

 from Eu.) 



17. G. palustre L. Slender, 2-5 dm. high, slightly 

 branched, branches solitary or opposite ; leaves linear- 

 elliptic or spatulate, thin, dull, barely 1 cm. long; 

 flowers numerous in terminal cymes ; pedicels becoming 

 strongly divaricate ; corolla 4-parted, white or rose- 

 tinged, 2.5-3.3 mm. broad; fruit glabrous, lunate in 

 cross-section. — AVet meadows and banks, Nfd. and Que. 

 to Ct., N. Y., and Mich. June, July. (Eu.) Fig. 906. 

 Slender and weak, very freely branched, forming den.se 

 mats; primary leaves oftenest in 4's, linear-spatulate, 0.5-1.3 cm. long ; floicera 

 solitary, or when terminal in 3's, on capillary scabrous arcuate pedicels; 

 corolla whitish, 0.5 mm. long; fruit annular in cross-section. (G. trifldum, 



906. G. palustre. 



18. G. trlfidum L 



