Galium. RUBIACE^. 311 



divaricate; fruit smooth or somewhat hispid. ~ Michx. fl. 1. p. 78 ; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 103; 

 Torr.Jl. I. p. 166 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 54 ; DC. prodr. 4. p. 598 ; Beck, bot. p. 162 ; Dar- 

 lingt. ft. Cest. p. 100. G. Pennsylvanicum, Muhl. cat. p. 15. G. micranthum, Pursh, fl. 

 1. p. 103? 



Stem flaccid, 4-8 feet long, usually supported on other plants, to which it adheres by its 

 numerous little hooked prickles, very much branched above. Leaves 6 - S lines long, taperino- 

 at the base ; the lower ones rather obtuse, with a short mucronate tip ; the upper ones 

 acuminate and cuspidate. Flowers minute, but very numerous ; the filiform peduncles twice 

 2 - 3-forked. Segments of the corolla ovate, acute. Fruit usually smooth, but sometimes 

 with a very few hooked prickles ; one of the carpels often abortive. 



Wet thickets ; not rare. Fl. July - August. The plant usually turns black in drying. 



4. Galium trifloruim, Michx. Sweet-scented Bedstraw. 



Stem flaccid, reclining or procumbent, retrorsely somewhat aculeate-scabrous or slightly 

 hispid on the angles, shining ; leaves 6 in a whorl, narrowly elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, 

 acuminate-cuspidate, 1-nerved, veiny, smooth, the margins and sometimes also the midrib 

 minutely ciliolate-hispid or scabrous; peduncles axillary and terminal, mostly ^-flowered at 

 the extremity ; the flowers all pedicellate ; segments of the corolla cuspidate ; fruit hispid 

 with hooked hairs. — Michx. fl. 1. p. 80; Willd hort. Berol. t. 66 ; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 104 ; 

 Torr. fl.l. p. 167 ; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 56 ; DC. prodr. 4. p. 601 ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. 

 p. 290 ; Beck, bot. p. 162 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 101 ; Tort. ^- Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 23. 

 G. cuspidatum, Muhl. cat. p. 15 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 197; DC. I. c. G. brachiatum, Pursh, fl. 

 1. p. 103. G. suaveolens, Wahl. fl. Lapp. p. 48, G. Pennsylvanicum, Bart, compend. fl. 

 Phil. 1. p. 83, not of Muhl. 



Stem 1 - 4 feet long, generally procumbent, with a few short diverging branches, sometimes 

 quite smooth, but commonly a little rough. Leaves from half an inch to an inch and a quarter 

 in length, thin and membranaceous ; the midrib very prominent. Flowers rather few ; the 

 pedicels widely divaricate. Corolla greenisli-while. Fruit densely hispid with white hairs. 



Moist woods and shady thickets ; common. Fl. July. Fr. September. The plant exhales 

 a vanilla-like odor in drying. 



♦• Flotccrt dull purple or bnncnish : jicduncki a^riUary and terminal, usually tii-ice or IhrUc forked or 3-parled. 



5. Galium pilosum. Ait. Hairy Bedstraw. 



Stem ascending, nearly simple, hairy; leaves 4 in a whorl, oval or ovate, mucronate, 

 indistinctly 3-ncrved at the base, punctate with pellucid dots, hairy and ciliate ; peduncles 

 usaaliy twice or thrice 2.forked, or tricholomous ; fruit densely iiispid with hooked prickles. 

 —Ait. Kew.{cd. 1.) l.p. 145; Pursh, fl. \.p. 104; Ell. sk. \.p. 196; Torr.fl. I. p. 167; 

 Beck, bot. p. 163 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 101 ; Ton: <^ Gr. fl. N. Am. 2. p. 24. G. punc- 

 ticulosum, /3. pilosum, DC. jirodr. 4. p. 601. 



