. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 4. Galium Aparine L. Cleavers. Goose-grass. Cleaver-wort. Fig. 3931. Galium Aparine L. Sp. PI. 108. 1753. Annual, weak, scrambling over bushes, 2°-5° long, the stems retrorsely hispid on the angles. Leaves in 6's or 8's, oblanceolate to linear, cuspidate at the apex, l'-3' long, a"-5" wide, the margins and midrib very rough; flowers in 1-3-flowered cy
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 4. Galium Aparine L. Cleavers. Goose-grass. Cleaver-wort. Fig. 3931. Galium Aparine L. Sp. PI. 108. 1753. Annual, weak, scrambling over bushes, 2°-5° long, the stems retrorsely hispid on the angles. Leaves in 6's or 8's, oblanceolate to linear, cuspidate at the apex, l'-3' long, a"-5" wide, the margins and midrib very rough; flowers in 1-3-flowered cymes in the upper axils ; peduncles 5"-i2" long; fruiting pedicels straight; fruit 2"-3" broad, densely covered with short hooked bristles. In various situations, New Brunswick to Ontario, South Dakota, Florida and Texas. Bermuda. Apparently in part naturalized from Europe. Widely distributed in temperate regions as a weed. May-Sept. Among some 70 other Eng- lish names_are catchweed, beggar-lice, burhead, claver-grass, cling-rascal, scratch-grass, wild hedge-burs, hairif or airif, stick-a-back, or stickle-back, gosling-grass, gosling-weed, turkey-grass, pigtail, grip- or grip-grass, loveman, sweet- hearts, scratch-weed, poor robin. 5. Galium Vaillantii DC. Vaillant's Goose-grass or Cleavers. Fig. 3932. Galium Vaillantii'DC. FI. France 4: 263. 1805. Galium Aparine var. Vaillantii Koch, Fl. Germ. 330. 1837. Similar to the preceding species but smaller, the stem equally rough-angled. Leaves smaller, 1' in length or less, linear-oblong or slightly oblanceolate, cuspidate- pointed, rough on the margins and midrib; cymes 2-9- flowered; fruit i"-il" broad, usually less hispid. In low grounds, Ontario to British Columbia, Missouri, Arizona and to California. Europe. The European G. spurium L., to which this plant was referred in the first edition, appears to have uniformly smooth Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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