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fulgo — Common Cleaver-. Goose grass. Robin-run-thc-Hedge. 

 trull. — Grateron. Germ. — Das Klebkraut. Hisp. — Amor del Hortelano. 



Root annual. Stem 4 to 6 or S feet long, procumbent when not supported; branch- 

 es short. Verticils rather remote. Leaves in 8 ? s or 6 ? s, an inch and half long, 

 sometimes obovate-lanc.folate, tapering to the base. Flowers mostly on axillary 

 elongated peduncles. Corolla white. Fruit rather large, adhesive by its hooked 

 bristles* 



flab. Along fences ; and in rich shaded places : frequent. Fl. May. Fr. July. 



Obs. This aperies is generally given as a native ; but to me it always had the 

 appearance of an introduced plant. 



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5. G. trifloiium, JMx. Stem flaccid, smoothish, the angles some- 

 what aculeate ; leaves in fives and sixes, elliptic-lanceolate, nmcronate, 

 slightly ciliate on the margin ; common peduncles axillary and terminal, 

 elongated, mostly 3-flowered at the extremity ; flowers pedicellate ; fruit 

 small. Beck, Hot. p. 162. 



G. cuspidatura. Muhl. Catal. p. 16. Floral Cestr. p. 19. Also, EU. 

 Sk. Up. 197. DC. Prodr. 4. p. 601. 

 G. Pennsylvanicum. Bart. Phil. 1. p. S3. Not of Muhl. 

 Also, G, brachiatum. Florul. Cestr. p. 19. Not of Muhl.\nd per- 

 haps not of Pursh. 



Three-flowered Galium. 



Root perennial. Stem weak, often procumbent, 2 to 3 or 4 feet long, with a few- 

 short axillary diverging brandies. Leaves somewhat membranaceous, mostly in 

 sLxes, elliptic, or obovate-lanceolaj£> attenuated at base, sprinkled with hairs on 

 the upper surface, mid-rib minutely aculeate, and margins ciliate : stem leaves mu- 

 cronate, those on the branches often acuminate. Flattering brunches axillary 

 and terminal, trichotomous, or not unfroquenily dichotomies. Corolla nearly 

 white; lobes ovate, acute, or acuminate FYuit clothed with white uncinate hairs, 

 Hab. Woodlands, and moist shaded grounds : frequent. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. The plant railed G. brachiatum, in Florid. Ccslrica, proves to be nothing 

 but the present species* 



6. G. piloscx, Ait. Stem nearly simple, ascending, hirsute on the 

 angles ; leaves in fours, ovate or oval, indistinctly 3-nerved, slightly mu- 

 cronate, very hairy on every part; peduncles elongated, dichotonious, 

 often 3-flowered at the extremity. Beck, Bot. p. 163. 



G. puncticulosum. Mx ? Am. I. p. 80. Bart. PhiL 1. p. 83. Also? 



Beck, Bot. p. 162. var. pilosum. DC. Prodr. 4. p. 601. 



Also, G. punctatum. Pert. Syn. 1. p. 128. 



Also 1 G. bermudianum. Il'illd. Sp. I. p. 596. Per 8. Syn. I. p. 128. 



Pursh, Am. 1. p. 104. JVutL Gen. 1. p. 93. Torr. Fl. 1. p % 169. 



Ejusd. Comp. p. 80. Eat. Man. p. 152. Nut of Muhl. nor Ell. 



Hairy Galium. 



Root perennial. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, nearly simple, often cespitose, or several 

 from the same root, ascending, hirsute; branches axillary, expanding. Leaven 

 tvate, or oval, obtuse, about an inch long and half an inch wide, pel lucid -punctate, 

 covered with roughisa hairs, and ciliate on the margin, the mid-rib distinct, but 



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