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D. Leaves oblong-ovate, acutish. C. 
G. kamtschaticum Stell. (Northern Wild Licorice) 
DD. Leaves obovate to orbicular, obtuse. W.C. (G. oreganum.) 
G. kamtschaticum oreganum Pip. 
CC. Fruit either smooth or hispid with hooked hairs; leaves 25-63 mm. long; 
leaf-margin ciliate or not; flowers clear white. W. C. E. 
G. boreale L. (Northern Bed-straw) 
CCC. Fruit hispid with straight hairs; leaves 8—16 mm. long; leaf-margin not 
ciliate; flowers yellowish-green. E. (G. multiflorum watsoni; G. multiflorum 
puberulum. ) G. multiflorum Kell. 
BB. Leaves 1|-veined from the base. 
E. Annual; leaves 2—4 in a whorl, if 4 then 2 of them only 14—34 as long as 
the other 2; fruit minutely hispid with hooked bristles. U. C. E 
G. bifolium Wats. (Twin-leaved Se -straw) 
EE. Perennial; leaves 4 in a whorl, all 4 about equal; fruit smooth. 
F. Leaves flat, linear or oblong or wider, not’ densely crowded; plant 3—12 
dm. high, diffuse or climbing. 
G. Plant 7—12 dm. high; leaves obtuse, often mucronate. U. 
G. nuttallii Gray 
Ge Plant. 3-6 ree high; leaves acute, not mucronate. U. C. 
G. bolanderi Gray 
FF. Leaves awl-shaped, angular, densely crowded; plant 0.5—2.5 cm. high, 
depressed, caespitose. U. G. andrewsii Gray 
AA. Leaves 4—6 in a whorl but never all in 4’s, 1-veined from the base; perennial. 
H. Leaves acute to rounded, 4—6 in a whorl; fruit smooth. 
I. Flowers |—3 on peduncles which are solitary in the leaf-axils. W.C.E. (G. 
trifidum subbiflorum; G. trifidum pacificum; S. arcuatum.) 
G. trifidum L. (Small Bed-straw) 
II. Flowers in cymes, numerous. W. 
G. cymosum Weig. 
HH. Leaves acuminate or cuspidate, 6 in a whorl; fruit minutely or plainly stiff-hairy. 
J. Fruit covered with hooked hairs; leaves 1—2.5 cm. long. W. C. E. 
G. triforum Michx. (Fragrant Bed-straw) 
JJ. Fruit rough or minutely hairy but not with hooked hairs; leaves 2.55 cm. 
long. E. G. asperrimum Gray 
AAA. Leaves 6—8 in a whorl but never all in 6’s, 1-veined from the base; fruit cov- 
ered with hooked bristles; annual. 
K. Stems erect or ascending; fruit 2—3 mm. wide; leaves |—2.5 cm. long. E. 
(G. spurium.) G. vaillantii DC. 
KK. Stems reclining; fruit 4—6 mm. wide; leaves 2.5—-7 cm. long. W. E. 
G. aparine L. (Cleavers) 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE Honeysuckle Family 
Herbs or shrubs or trees, perennial, vines to erect. Leaves opposite, simple or pin- 
nately odd-compound, pinnately or palmately veined; stipules present or none. Flowers 
perfect, regular or irregular, in cymes or pairs or solitary in the leaf-axils. Calyx 
5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla rotate to tubular, often gibbous at base, 5-lobed, sometimes 
2-lipped. Stamens 4—5, on the corolla-tube, alternate with the lobes; anthers versatile. 
Ovary inferior, 1—6-celled; style slender; stigma capitate or 2—-5-lobed; cells 1- to 
several-ovuled. Fruit a berry or drupe or capsule. 

