RUBIACEAE. Vor. III. 
18. Galium labradéricum Wiegand. Labrador 
Marsh Bedstraw. Fig. 3945. 
Galium tinctorium labradoricum Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club 
24: 398. 1897. 
Galium labradoricum Wiegand, Rhodora 6: 21. 1904. 
Perennial, with very slender rootstocks; stems weak, 
smooth, slender, more or less branched, 2’-12’ high. 
Leaves #’-#’ long, linear-oblanceolate, narrowed at the 
base, becoming reflexed, scabrous on the margins and 
midvein beneath; flowers solitary, about 1” broad, or in 
simple cymes; corolla white, mostly 4-parted; fruit 
smooth, seed annular in cross-section. 
In mossy bogs, Newfoundland to Wisconsin, Connecticut, 
western Massachusetts and New York. June—Aug. 
1g. Galium trifidum L. Small Bedstraw. Small Cleavers. Fig. 3946. 
Galium trifidum L. Sp. Pl. 105. 1753. 
G. trifidum var. pusillum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 209. 1867. 
Perennial by slender rootstocks, very slender and weak; 
stem ascending, 16’ long or less, much branched and inter- 
tangled; stem sharply 4-angled, rough; branches com- 
monly in 2’s; leaves in 4’s, linear-spatulate, 24’’-7’’ long, 
obtuse, cuneate at the base, I-nerved, dark green and dull 
on both surfaces, scarcely papillose, the margins and mid- 
rib retrorse-scabrous; flowers small, on lateral or termi- 
nal pedicels which are capillary and much longer than the 
leaves, commonly two at each node or three terminal; 
corolla very small, white, 2?’ long, trifid, its lobes broadly 
oval, very obtuse; fruit glabrous; seed spherical and hol- 
low, annular in cross-section : 
Sphagnous bogs and cold swamps, Newfoundland to New 
York, British Columbia, Ohio, Nebraska and Colorado. Europe 
and Asia. Summer. 
20. Galium Claytoni Michx. Clayton’s Bedstraw. Fig. 3947. 
Galium Claytoni Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 1: 78. 1803. 
Galium tinctorium Bigelow, Fl. Bost. Ed. 2, 54. 1824. 
Perennial; stem erect or ascending, more diffuse 
when old, 6’-2° high; stem slender or sometimes quite 
stout, sharply 4-angled, more or less rough, the diffuse 
branches in 2’s; leaves of medium size, 4’-8” long, 
commonly in 5’s or 6’s, linear-spatulate or spatulate- 
oblong, obtuse, cuneately narrowed into a short petiole, 
rather firm in texture, scabrous on the margin and 
midrib, dark green and dull above, not papillose, dis- 
colored in drying; flowers in clusters of 2’s or 3’s, term- 
inal, provided with I or 2 minute bracts; pedicels 
straight, in fruit strongly divaricate, glabrous and rather 
stout; corolla minute, white, 3-parted, the lobes broadly 
oval, obtuse; fruit glabrous; seed spherical and hollow, 
annular in cross-section. 
2 is ais Quebec to New York, North Carolina, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas. 
ay-July. 
