Galium. RUBIACE.i:. 



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G. Califomicum, HOOK. & ARX. Wholly herbaceous, fm,n slender creeping rootstocks 

 often in low tufts, a span or two high, or diffuse, with slender stems a fool long In- 

 hirsute, rarely glabrate in age: leaves thinnish, ovate or oval, apiculate-acuminate (quarter- 

 inch to half-inch long), margins and midrib hispid-ciliate ; fruit glabrous, on , 

 -Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. 349 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 20 (excl. var. / ; Gray , 



Calif, i. 283. Shady ground, common in tin.- western part of California, especially in th,- 

 const r<ing"6s. * 



G. Nuttallii, GRAY. Tall and much branched from suffrutes e often supported bv 



and as if climbing over bushes, or procuinb.-n:. mostly glabrous, except min 

 hispidulous angles of stem and margins of leaves, these sometimes nub ,, ,11 



oval to linear-oblong, mucronate, mucronulate, or obtuse : fruit smooth and glabrous PL 



Wright, i. 80, & Bot. Calif, i. 283. G. suffrutic.,,,,,, Xutt. i,, Torr. & Gray, 1 1. ii. 21, not 

 Hook. & Arn. California toward the coast, from San Diego to Ilumholdt ( ... 



i- 4 Berry while (blackening in drying), very smooth, juiey. 



G. Bolanderi, GRAY. Herbaceous from a woody root, diffuse, a fool or two high, -la!irm,< 

 sometimes pubescent: angles of the stem not at all or hardly scabrous : leaves obl'oj 

 or lanceolate, rather acute, about half-inch long, thickish, with margins and midrib either 

 smooth and naked or sparsely hispidulous ; those of branchlets nol rarely ; r,, r ,,lla 



dull purplish. Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 350, xix. 80, & Bot. Calif, i. 284, male plant. (,'. . 

 garicoccnm, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xiii. 371, in fruit, Dry ground, western side of Sierra 

 Nevada, California, from the Yosemite northward, and apparently in llumbol.lt Co.; first 

 coll. by Bolander, and the fruit by Gray and 7/W,vy. 



* * New Mexican, with linear leaves, dioecious : fruit unknown. 

 G. Fendleri, GRAY. A span or two high from a tufted frutescent base, cinereous-puberulent 



and barely scabrous, sleuder: leaves hardly if at all rigid except the very small and aqua- 

 maceous ones which are imbricated on the bases of the annual shoots ; those above linear, 

 about 4 lines long, less than line wide, rather acute, with midrib somevi hat conspicuous be- 

 neath : flowers somewhat paniculate, short-pedicelled : corolla yellowish. I'l. 1-Ymll. Co. 

 Exposed mountain sides, near Santa Fe', New Mexico, Fend/er, male plant : anil a female 

 which is glabrous (also the ovary), or below barely pruinose-puberulent, perhaps not of il"- 

 species. Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, Print/In, male only. 



* *= * Texano-Californian, herbaceous, with very narrow and rigid small leaves, and verv small 

 white corollas. 



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G. Andrews!!, GRAY. Depressed-cespitose and with slender ; rootstocks, glabrous 



or nearly so; the matted tufts a span or less high: leaves ver;. crowded, acerose-subulate, 

 usually shining, either naked or sparsely spinulosc-ciliate, 2 to 4 lines long : flowers diu:ciu:s ; 

 male slender-pedicelled in few-flowered terminal cymes; female solitary. Mibtcnded by a 

 whorl of leaves which are longer than the fructiferous at length dcllcxed podiei 1 : 1 ITI-V 

 dark-colored, smooth. Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 538, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. 286. Dry hills, on tl e 

 coast of California from Lake Co. to San Diego, and in the interior to Tejon, first coll. b\ 

 Dr. Andreivs. Also Oregon, Howell. 



G. micropll^llum, GRA.Y. Diffusely spreading or ascending, smooth and glabrous, but 

 not shining ; branches a span to afoot long: lc;;\ < s -hoiter than the iniernoe, , arrowly 



linear (or small, broader, and crowded at the base of stems), usually mucronate, with narrow 

 midrib prominent beneath and callous naked margins, mostly 2 to 4 (rarely 5 or G) lines I >HL' 

 flowers apparently all hermaphrodite, solitary on a very short or on a longer and pedun 

 like axillary branchlet and sessile in its whorl of involucriform leaves, or this proliferous and 

 bearing a second whorl and flower: ovary and young fruit -scabro-puberulous or at length 

 granulose, at maturity fleshy-baccate. PL Wright, i. 80, ii. 66. Ji<lbiuiinm niti-n>/>/ii/!t>iin, 

 Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. G3. Rocky ravines, &c., S. W. Texas to S. Ari/ona. tii t 

 coll. by Wright . (Adj. Mex., where there is a pubescent variety, Edbunium nm, 



Hemsl. 1. c.) 



* * * * Atlantic North American, herbaceous, with oval to linear leaves, and usually solitary 

 hermaphrodite flowers: corolla white: berry purple, in our species naked-pedicellate '"' x "iirl luo 

 ultimate involucriform whorl, mostly pendulous at maturity. Relbunium, Benth. \ Hook. 



G. uniflorum, MICHX. Smooth and glabrous : stems assurgnit from filiform rootst> 

 slender, rather simple : leaves linear (about inch long and u line wide), with somewhat 



