606 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
9. Galium aparine L. Sp. Pl. 108, 1753. GoOsEGRASS, 
Type Locauity: ‘‘Habitat in Europae cultis & ruderatis.”’ 
Rance: British America to California and Texas; also in Europe and Asia. 
New Mexico: Sierra Grande; Organ Mountains; Ruidoso Creek; Gilmores Ranch. 
Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 
10. Galium flaviflorum Heller; Rydb. Colo, Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 100: 322. 1906. 
Tyre Locauiry: Santa Je Canyon 9 miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type 
collected by Heller (no. 3823). . 
Ranae: Colorado and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains. Moist 
thickets, in the Transition Zone. 
11. Galium triflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer, 1: 80. 1803. 
SWEET-SCENTED BEDSTRAW. 
TYPE Locauity: ‘‘In umbrosis Canadae sylvis.’’ 
Range: British America to California, Texas, and Alabama. 
New Mexico: West Fork of the Gila; Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; Las Huertas 
Canyon. Transition Zone. 
12. Galium asperrimum A. Gray, Mem. Amer, Acad. n. ser. 4: 60. 1849. 
Type Locaity: Wet places near irrigating ditches, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type 
collected by Fendler (no. 289), 
Rance: Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains; Rio Pueblo; 
San Luis Mountains; White and Sacramento mountains. Transition Zone. 
2. CRUSEA Cham. 
Low glabrous annual, 10 to 20 cm. high, with linear leaves and sheathing stipules; 
flowers small, white, in few-flowered clusters; calyx teeth 2 or 3, lanceolate, foliaceous, 
with 1 or 2 much smaller and partly scarious ones; corolla salverform; stamens 4, 
exserted ; ovary 2-celled, the styles wholly or partly united, capillary; capsules didy- 
mous, the carpels separating, indehiscent, thin-walled; seeds mostly oblong. 
1. Crusea subulata (Pavon) A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 78, 1883. 
Spermacoce subulata Pavon; DC, Prodr. 4: 543. 1830. 
Borreria subulata DC. loc. cit. 
Type Locality: Mexico. 
Rance: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and southward. 
New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains; Kingston; White Mountains. Open slopes, in 
the Transition Zone. 
38. BOUVARDIA Salisb. Bouvarpta. 
Low shrub, the upper part of the stems herbaceous, with ovate-lanceolate short- 
petiolate leaves 25 to 50 mm. long, mostly in whorls of 4, and with terminal cymes of 
conspicuous heterogone-dimorphous red flowers; corolla slender-tubular; hypanthium 
turbinate or campanulate; sepals 4, persistent; corolla lobes short, valvate in bud; 
styles slender, more or less exserted in some of the flowers; stigmas 2, obtuse; ovary 
2-celled; capsule didymous-globose, coriaceous; seeds numerous, flat, winged, imbri- 
cated on the placenta. 
1. Bouvardia ovata A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 2: 67. 1853. 
TYPE LocaLity: ‘‘Mountain valleys from San Pedro to Santa Cruz, Sonora.” 
Ranae: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and southward. 
New Mexico: Animas Peak; Dog Mountains; San Luis Mountains. Dry hills, 
