. 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. 16. Galium sylvaticum L. Wood Bedstraw. Fig- 3943- G. sylvaticum L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 155. 1762. Perennial, erect, 2°-3° tall; stems several or many, shining, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous, or slightly pu- bescent, not scabrous. Leaves lanceolate or oblong- lanceolate, pale beneath, whorled in 8's or 6's, or those of the branches in 4's, or opposite, the larger some
. 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. 16. Galium sylvaticum L. Wood Bedstraw. Fig- 3943- G. sylvaticum L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 155. 1762. Perennial, erect, 2°-3° tall; stems several or many, shining, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous, or slightly pu- bescent, not scabrous. Leaves lanceolate or oblong- lanceolate, pale beneath, whorled in 8's or 6's, or those of the branches in 4's, or opposite, the larger sometimes 2' long; panicles large; pedicels filiform, erect-spreading in fruit; flowers white; corolla-lobes apiculate; fruit smooth. Fields and thickets, Maine and Vermont, escaped from cultivation. Native of Europe. June-July. Stiff Marsh Bed-straw. Wild Madder 17. Galium tinctorium L Galium tinctorium L. Sp. PI. 106. 1753. Galium trifidum var. latifolium Torr. Fl. N. & Mid. States, 78. 1826. Galium tinctorium filifolium Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 397. 1897. Perennial; stem erect, 6-15' high, rather stiff, branched almost to the base, the branches com- monly solitary, strict (not irregularly diffuse), sev- eral times forked; stem 4-angled, nearly glabrous; leaves commonly in 4's, linear to lanceolate, ¥-1' long, mostly broadest below the middle, obtuse, cuneate at the base, dark green and dull, not papil- lose, i-nerved, the margins and midrib roughish; flowers terminal in clusters of 2 or 3; pedicels slen- der, not much divaricate in fruit; corolla white, large, i"-il" broad, 4-parted, its lobes oblong, acute; disk large; fruit smooth; seed spherical, hollow, annular in cross-section. Damp shady places, wet meadows and swamps, Quebec to North Carolina, Florida, Te Michigan, Nebraska and Arizona. May-July. • 3944-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appea
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