526 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM, THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Sandberg & Leiberg 505; west Klickitat County, Suksdorf 1659; Skokomish River, Hender- 
son, May 12, 1892; Pullman, Piper. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Transition. 
3. Galium bifolium 8. Wats. Bot. King Explor. 134. 1871. 
Type Locauity: ‘In the Trinity, Battle, and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in 
the Wahsatch.”’ 
Rance: Washington to California, Colorado, and Montana. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Mount Adams, Suksdorf 328; Mount Stuart, Elmer 1101; 
Klickitat River, Flett 1194; Blue Mountains, Piper 2406. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Canadian? 
4. Galium kamtschaticum Steller; Roem. & Schult. Mant. 3: 186. 1827. 
Type LocaLity: Kamtschatka. 
Range: Alaska to New England and Washington. Siberia. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Stevens Pass, Sandberg & Leiberg 754. 
4a. Galium kamtschaticum oreganum (Britton). 
Galium oreganum Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 31. 1894. 
Type Locauity: Oregon. Collected by Howell. 
RanGe: Washington and Oregon in the coast region. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Clallam County, Elmer 2547; Lake Cushman, Piper 921: Mount 
Adams, Flett 1192; Goat Mountains, Allen 296; Cascade Mountains, Suksdorf 22; Ska- 
mania County, Suksdorf 864; Skokomish Valley, Kincaid, May, 1892; Stampede Pass, Hen- 
derson, July 26, 1892. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Canadian. 
5. Galium boreale L. Sp. Pl. 1: 108. 1753. 
Galium boreale linearifolium Rydberg, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 375. 1900. 
Type Locaity: ‘“ Habitat in Europae borealis pratis.”’ 
Rance: Alaska to Canada, southward to California, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Europe. 
Asia. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Montesano, /edler 4020; San Juan Island, Lyall in 1858; Cascade 
Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall in 1859; Muckleshoot Prairie, Dr. Ruhn: Snoqualmie Smith 
605; Beaver Creek, Whited 18, 228; Ellensburg, Whited 437; North Yakima and Spokane, 
Henderson, May 27, July 9, 1892; Pullman, Hull 556; Piper 1504; without locality Vasey 
in 1899. 
In some of the older botanical works our plant is erroneously referred to the European 
(. rubioides L. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Transition and Upper Sonoran. 
6. Galium trifidum subbiflorum Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 399. 1897. 
Type Locatity: Colorado. 
Rance: Washington to Alberta, south to Arizona and California. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Westport, Lamb 1107; Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall in 
1858; Ellensburg, Whited 480; Nason Creek, Sandberg & Leiberg 606; Pullman, Piper, July 
25, 1895; Lake Kalispel, Kreager 444. 
ZONAL DISTRIBUTION: Transition and Canadian. 
This subspecies has the flowers often 2 to each pedicel, and leaves 8 to 10 mm. long. 
The northwestern plants referred by Hooker@ to G. claytoni Michx. and G. tinetorium 
L. undoubtedly belong to G. trifidum. 
6a. Galium trifidum pacificum Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 400. 1897. 
Type LocaLity: Placer County, California. 
Rance: Washington to California. 
a Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 288. 1840. 
