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Fruit didymous, dry or fleshy, smooth, tuberculate, or his¬ 
pid. 
Annuals; fruit densely bristly-hispid. 1. G. Aparine. 
Perennials. 
Fruit bristly hispid. 
Leaves in 4’s, 1-nerved. 2. G. pilosum. 
Leaves in 4’s, 3-nerved. 3. G. circaezans. 
Fruit smooth or warty. 4. G. tinctorium. 
1. Galium Aparine L. Cleavers. Annual, weak, scrambling 
over bushes, 2°-5° long, the stems retrosely hispid on the angles. 
Leaves in 6’s or 8’s oblanceolate to linear, l,'-3' long, the margins 
and midrib very rough. Flowers in 1-3 flowered cymes in the upper 
axils. Fruit densely covered with short, hooked bristles. 
Woods and waste places. April-September. Common. 
2. Galium pilosum Ait. Hairy Bedstraw. Perennial, hirsute- 
pubescent or glabrate. Stems ascending, branched, l°-2% 0 long. 
Leaves in 4’s, oval or oval-ovate, punctate, 1-nerved, 4"-12" long. 
Peduncles axillary and terminal. Cymes numerous but few-flowered. 
Flowers yellowish-purple. Fruit dry, densely hispid. 
In dry or sandy soil. May-August. Lincoln and Cleveland 
counties. 
3. Galium circa*zans MIchx. Wild Liquorice or Cross-Cleav¬ 
ers. Perennial, pubescent or glabrate, branched, 12'-24' high. Leaves 
in 4’s, oval to oval-lanceolate, 3-nerved, 6"-18" long, cymes divari¬ 
cately branched. Flowers greenish. Fruit hispid. 
In dry woods. May-July. Frequent. 
4. Galium tinctorium L. Stiff Marsh Bedstraw. Perennial. 
Stem 6'-15' high, branched almost to the base. Stem 4-angled, near¬ 
ly glabrous. Leaves commonly in 4’s, linear to lanceolate, 6"-12" 
long, 1-nerved, the margins and midrib roughish. Flowers terminal 
in clusters of 2 or 3. Corolla white, 1"-1%" broad, 4-parted. Fruit 
smooth. 
Damp, shady places, wet meadows and swamps. May-July. 
Cleveland County. 
FAMILY 84. CAPRIFOLIACE^. Honeysuckle Family. 
Shrubs, trees, vines, or perennial herbs, with opposite, 
simple or pinnate leaves, and perfect, regular or irregu¬ 
lar, mostly cymose flowers. Calyx-tube adnate to the ov- 
