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list of Roemer, and Schultes. It is a larger and more open 

 plant than G. tinctorium. 



Galium verum. L. Yellow Bedstraw. 



Leaves eight in a whorl, channelled, entire, rongh ; 

 flowers in dense panicles : fruit smooth. Sm. 



Grows at Roxbury in dry, open pastures. Stem upright, 

 slender, pubescent. Leaves linear, rough, with the edges rolled 

 back, pointing downward. Branches opposite, unequal, leafy, 

 many flowered. Flowers small, yellow, fojlowed by minute 

 smooth fruit. — June, July. — Perennial. 



Probably introduced from Europe. 



Galium circ^zans. 31x. Cross Cleavers. 



Stems erect ; leaves in fours, oval, ciliate ; pedun- 

 cles divaricate, few flowered ; frtiit bristly. 

 Syn. Galium brachiatum. Muhl. nee Pursh. 



Found in woods. Stem upright, smooth, minutely pubescent. 

 Leaves an inch, or an inch and a half long, and more than half 

 as broad, three nerved, hairy at the margin and nerves. Branches 

 few, near the top, opposite, few flowered. Peduncles nearly sim- 

 ple, bent in various directions, making angles at every flower, 

 and giving off" at the same time a minute leaf. Fruit a little burr 

 with its short footstalk reflected, as in Circsea, with uncinate 

 bristles. — June, July. — Perennial, 



*Galium Torreyi. Acuminate Galium. 



G. caule erecto ; foUis qiiaternis lanceolatis acumin- 

 atis ; peduncidis paiicijloris ; fructu hispido. 



Stem erect ; leaves in fours, lanceolate acuminate : 

 peduncles few flowered ; fruit hispid. 

 Syn. Galium ciRCiEZANs var. lanceolatum. Torrey. N. Y. Cat. 

 This species is a congener of the preceding, and closely re- 

 sembles it in its mode of flowering and fruit. Its leaves, how- 

 ever, are narrower, twice as long, and attenuated to a long 

 point, giving it a very different aspect. It is generally less 

 ciliate. From G. septentrionale it differs in its leaves beinS 



