56 New Spectes of Galium. [ZOE 
W. R. Dudley, No. 1214; In or near Yosemite Valley, Lembert, 
No. 32; Converse Basin, South Fork King’s River, Fresno 
County, Alice Eastwood, July 14, 1899. 
G. sparsiflorum is allied to G. Califarnicum, H. & A. No. 377, 
Dudley, is a stouter plant than the type with hispid leaves and 
more abundant fertile flowers, perhaps a variety, 
G. subscabridum. Perennial, erect or diffusely branching 
ing, a foot or more high; stems ‘glabrous or nearly so; leaves in 
fours or opposite on the branchlets, unequal, oval, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, six to eight lines long, three to 
four lines broad, those on the branchlets half as large, one-nerved, 
mid-rib rather prominent below, margins and surfaces minutely 
scabrous; flowers not seen; fruit fleshy on stout recurved pedi- 
cels, these axillary or terminal, solitary, about three lines long. 
Central California: Wawona, J. W. Congdon, June, 1883; 
Sequoia Mill, Fresno County, A. Eastwood, July 19, 1892. 
This plant is most closely related to G. Bolanderi, but need in 
no way be confused with it. 
G. muricatum, Perennial, diffuse and apparently spreading 
by slender creeping root-stocks; stems very weak, three to 
eight or more inches long, minutely scabrous; leaves in fours, 
elliptical, acuminate, three to four lines long, one to one and one- 
half lines broad, one-nerved, hispid on the margins and upper 
surface, very slightly so or not at all on the lower; flowering 
peduncles axillary and terminal, usually in two’s or three’s, cap- 
illary, minutely scabrous; flowers apparently white, corolla four- 
parted, fruit not seen. 
A single plant collected at Westport, Mendocino County, Cal., 
by T. S. Brandegee, June 19 (no year given). An anomalous 
form, perhaps, to be placed near G. Miguelense, though it is not 
very closely allied to that form. 
G. chartaceum. Perennial, less than a span high, branched 
from near the base, erect, stems very nearly glabrous or 
minutely hispid at the nodes; leaves in fours, one-nerved, some- 
what chartaceous in texture, oblanceolate to obovate, cuspidate- 
pointed, hispid with rather long hairs on the margins and upper 
‘ 
