362 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Frequent. Moist thickets and waste places. May — June. 



The plant is medicinal. 

 Galium varum L. (true). 

 Yellow Bedstraw. 



Rare. Fields and waste ground: Waterford (Graves), 

 Guilford (G. H. Bartlett), Plainville (C. D. Bishop), Nauga- 

 tuck (B. B. Bristol), Huntington (Karnes), Stratford (Mrs. 

 R. H. Russell), Norfolk (Miss M. C. Seymour), Southbury 

 (Weatherby & Harger), Monroe (Fames & C. C. Godfrey), 

 Stamford (W. H. Hoyt), Salisbury (Mrs. C. S. Phelps). 

 June — July. Adventive from Europe. 



Galium Wirtgenii F. Schultz. 



Rare. Norfolk, in grassland (Miss M. C. Seymour). 

 June. Fugitive from Europe. 

 Galium pilosum Ait. (hairy). 



Frequent. Dry soil of woods and fields. July — Aug. 

 Galium pilosum Ait., var. puncticulosum (Michx.) Torr. & 

 Gray (minutely punctate). 



Rare. Dry ground: South Windsor (A. W. Driggs). 

 July — Aug. 

 Galium circaezans Michx. (imitating Circaea, the Enchanter's 

 Nightshade). 

 Wild Liquorice. 



Occasional or frequent. Rich woods. June — July. 



Galium lanceolatum Torr. (lance-shaped). 

 Wild Liquorice. 



Rich woods. Rare in New London County: Norwich 

 (Mrs. F. E. Rogers), Ledyard and Salem (Graves). Becom- 

 ing occasional to frequent northward and westward. June — 

 July. 

 Galium boreale L. (northern). 

 Northern Bedstraw. 



Fields and rocky banks. Farmington (Miss Willard), 

 New Britain (Bissell), Derby (Harger), Milford (Fames), 

 and occasional northwestward. June — July. 

 Galium Mollugo L. (classical name for some bur-bearing 

 plant). 

 Wild Madder. 



