255 -UBIACEAE. Vot. III. 
tt Flowers white or greenish. 
Stems smooth; introduced species. 
Leaves linear to oblanceolate, cuspidate. 15. G. Mollugo. 
Leaves lanceolate, acuminate. 16. G. sylvaticum. 
Stems mostly more or less retrorsely scabrous ; native species. 
Leaves obtuse; stems slightly scabrous. 
Plants of wet soil, not shining. 
Flowers solitary, or few in small simple cymes. 
Corolla-lobes mostly 4, acute. 
Fruit 14” in diameter; leaves ascending or spreading. 17. G. tinctorium. 
Fruit 4%” in diameter; leaves mostly reflexed. 18. G. labradoricum, 
Corolla-lobes mostly 3, obtuse. 
Pedicels rough, curved; flowers mostly solitary. 19. G. trifidum. 
Pedicels smooth, straight; flowers 2 or 3 together. 20. G. Claytoni. 
Flowers numerous in forked cymes. 21. G. palustre. 
Shining plant of dry woodlands. 22. G.concinnum, 
Leaves cuspidate-acute; stems retrorsely hispid. 23. G. asprellum. 
II. Fruit fleshy. 24. G. bermudense, 
1. Galium vérum L. Yellow Bedstraw. Lady’s Bedstraw. Fig. 3928. 
Galium verum L. Sp. Pl. 107. 1753. 
Perennial from a somewhat woody base, erect or 
ascending, simple or branched, 6’-23° high. Stems 
smooth or minutely roughened; leaves in 6’s or 8's, 
narrowly linear, 4’-12” long, about 4” wide, rough 
on the margins, at length deflexed; flowers yellow, 
the cymes in dense narrow panicles; lower branches 
of the panicles longer than the internodes at anthe- 
sis; fruit usually glabrous, less than 1” broad. 
In waste places and fields, Maine and Ontario to Mas- 
sachusetts, southern New York, New Jersey and Penn- 
sylvania. Adventive or naturalized from Europe. Native 
also of Asia. May-Sept. Cheese-rennet. Curdwort. Bed- 
flower. Fleawort. Maids’-hair. Yellow cleavers. Our 
Lady’s-bedstraw. 
Galium Wirtgeni F. Schultz, differs in having the 
lower branches of the panicle very short at anthesis, and 
is recorded as established in a meadow at Norfolk, 
Connecticut. 
WW 
2. Galium parisiénse L. Wall Bedstraw. 
Fig. 3929. hi ya 
NV NW/ a 
Galium parisiense L. Sp. Pl. 108. 1753. Ure yr 
WY 4 Woe? 
Galium anglicum Huds. Fl. Angl. Ed. 2, 69. 1778. QX SW V re 
Annual, erect or ascending, very slender, much branched ; 
stem rough on the angles, 6’-12’ high. Leaves in verticils 
of about 6 (4-7), linear or linear-lanceolate, cuspidate, 
minutely scabrous on the margins and midrib, 2’-5” long ; 
cymes several-flowered, axillary and terminal on filiform 
peduncles; flowers minute, greenish-white; fruit glabrous, 
finely granular, less than 3” wide. 
Along roadsides, Virginia and Tennessee. Adventive or 
naturalized from Europe. June-Aug. 
