HOFFMANN: FLORA OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY. 329 
PHRYMACEAE. LOPSEED FAMILY. 
PHRYMA. LopsEED. 
P. Leptostachya L. Lopseed. — Open woods in low ground; 
frequent in the valley. 
PLANTAGINACEAE. PLANTAIN FAMILY. 
PLANT AGO. Plantain. 
P. ARiSTATA Michx. — Dry fields and waste ground; frequent in the 
southern part of the valley. Naturalized from the West. 
P. LANCEOLATA L. RiB Grass. — Fields and meadows; common. 
P. major L. Common Plantain. — About dwellings and along 
roadsides; common. 
P. MEDIA L. — Adventive in a lawn, Lenox. 
P. Rugelii Dene. — Fields and roadsides, and about dwellings; 
common. 
RUBIACEAE. MADDER FAMILY. 
CEPHALANTHUS. Buttonbush. 
C. occidentalis L. Buttonbush. — Borders of ponds and slow 
streams, and in swamps ; common. 
GALIUM. Bedsthaw; Cleavers. 
G. Aparine L. — Riverbanks and rich soil at low altitudes; fre- 
quent in the valley. 
G. asprellum Michx. Rough Bedstraw. — Alluvial thickets and 
low ground; common. 
G. boreale L. Northern Bedstraw. — Meadows; occasional. 
Williamstown (Churchill); Sandisfield; Sheffield. Plants collected 
in Sheffield with hisi)i(l fruit. 
G. circaezans Michx. Wild Liquorice. — Dry woods and clear- 
ings; frequent in the southern part of the valley. 
G. Claytoni Michx. — Swamps and wet meadows; common. 
G. ERECTUM Huds. — Roadsidcs and fields; occasional. Lancsboro; 
Becket; Lenox; Great Barrington (Walters). 
G. labradoricum Wiegand. — Bogs; frequent. 
G. lanceolatum Torr. .Wild Liquorice. — Rich woods; com- 
mon. 
