Image: Galium virgatum (14597272819 32918224)

Description: Identifier: illustratedflor03brit Title: 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 102nd meridian Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 Brown, Addison, 1830-1913 Subjects: Botany Publisher: New York : Scribner Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 26o RUBIACEAE. Vol. III. Text Appearing After Image: 6. Galium virgatum Xutt. SouthwesternBedstraw. Fig. 3933. Galium virgatum Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2 : 20. 1841. Annual, 4-i2 high, usually hispid, sometimesnearly glabrous; stem very slender, 4-angled,branched from the base, or simple. Leaves in 4s,oblong or linear-oblong, 25-5 long, i wide, orless, obtuse or acutish; peduncles axillary, i-flow-ered, less than 1 long, recurved in fruit; flowerwhite, subtended by 2 large oblong to lanceolatebracts which closely resemble the leaves; fruitabout i in diameter, covered with slender barbedbristles. < Dry prairies, barrens and glades, Tennessee andMissouri to Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. April-June. 7. Galium pilosum Ait. Hairy Bed-straw. Fig. 3934. Galium pilosum Ait. Hort. Kew. i : 145. 17S9.Galium puHcticulosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 80. 1803.Galium pilosum puncticnlosum T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2 : 24. 1841. Perennial, more or less hirsute-pubescent orglabrate; stems ascending, branched, l°-22°long. Leaves in 4s, oval or oval-ov Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Galium virgatum (14597272819 32918224)
Credit: Image from page 271 of "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 102nd meridian" (1913)
Author: Internet Archive Book Images
Permission: Internet Archive Book Images @ Flickr Commons
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No