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1. I), leaves connate* sinuate, chaff upright. i>u,,. 



1). tullonum, &c. Lin. 



Icon. Jacq. fl. aust. 5. t. 403. 



Wild Teasel* 



About three or tour feet high, baring the appearance of a 

 thistle. Near the cntrance-^iue to Lemon-hill, (Pratt's) 

 ■boon the Lancaster turnpiUc road. Not common, and most 

 bably introduced* from Europe. I have however, seen it 

 in great abundance all along the road from Philadelphia to 

 -town, (Penn.) and oftentimes in situations where it ap- 

 parently grew wild. Biennial. July. 



74. GALIUM, Gen. pi. 162. (Rubiace*.) 



Calix 4-toothed. Corolla monopetalous, 4- 

 cleft, flat. Seeds 2, nearly round. 



• Species with smooth fruit . 



1. G. stem procumbent, scabrous ; leaves generally u-ifidum. 



by fours, oval, wedge-shaped at base ; corolla 



mostly trifid. — Sp.pl. 

 G. trindum, L. Willd. and Walt. 

 G. Clatoni, Mich. 

 G. Aparine, Clayton ? 

 Aparine floribus albis, &c. Gron. Virg. 18. 



Three-petaled Goose-grass^ or Ladies'* Bed-straw, 



A common species inhabiting moist places. Perennial ? 

 Flowers white, very small. Blooms from early spring till 

 midsummer. 



2. G. stem diffuse, very much branched, prickly aspreiium, 

 backwards ; stem leaves in sixes, those of the M,ch ' 

 branches in fours, lanceolate, acuminate, prickly 

 on the margin and nerve ; flower-bearing branch- 

 es divaricate many-flowered, with short pedicels. 

 — Mich, and Pursh. 



In wet meadows among bushes, in swamps, and on the 

 borders of rivulets. Common. Perennial. July. 



