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February 25, 1861. 

 President in the Chair, 

 Dr. Kellogg presented the following descriptions : 



G-alium stellatiim, (Kellogg) Starry-haired Cleavers. Fig. 

 26. This and the following species belong to the Trichogaliums. 

 Stem suffrnticose at the base (with a light, loose, cream colored 

 bark) ; branches .mostly simple, erect, with a few short axillary 

 fruiting branchlets, quadrangular, angles obtuse ; hoary stellate 

 pubescent ; leaves in whorls of four, sessile or subsessile, 

 ovate-acute and acuminate, apex subulate ; lamina thick, rigid, 

 very scabrous throughout ; margins revolute, pale green above, 

 lighter hoary beneath ; the mid-rib stout and prominent below, 

 (slightly keeled at the base, one nerved rarely two-nerved). 

 Flowers unknown ; fruit axillary and terminal, solitary ? (or 

 only few flowered) ; very densely hirsute with straight white 

 bristles, longer than the fruit ; one or more bracts closely set 

 beneath the fruit, pedicels very short. This species approaches 

 Gr. ti'iclioearpum, \)Vii the stem in tliat is said to be " glabrous ; " 

 the long hairs of the fruit bring it near Cr. eriocarpum. 



It is allied to Cr. Wrightii, but that has " obtuse leaves ; these 

 are sharp, cuspidately spinose, and the simply " hirsute " stems 

 " very much branched,'* does not accord with the above char- 

 acteristics. 



This species of Galium was brought from Cerros Island by 

 Dr. J. A. Yeatch. The plant seldom exceeds a foot iu height. 

 Fig. 26 exhibits the general outline and natural size of a por- 

 tion of the stem. We have not endeavored to represent the 

 peculiar stellate pubescence. 



G-alium multiflormn, (Kellogg) Many flowered Cleavers. 

 Fig. 27. Stem somewhat decumbent at the suffrnticose base, 

 glabrous, (the bark exfoliates from the perennial base in thin, 

 shining, hemp-like shreds) ; branches sharply quadrangular, 

 angles scabrous, branchlets numerous. 



Leaves, four in a whorl, roundish-ovate, (about as broad as 

 long) abruptly short, acuminate, mucronate, with the apex re- 

 curved, three-nerved, sessile, membraneous ; margins scabrous, 

 (not revolute) surfaces naked, minutely granular, three or four 

 times shorter than the internodes, the ultimate' leaves often op- 

 posite. 



Peduncles axillary and terminal in trichotomous cymules, 

 pedicels erect, short, scarcely longer than the ultimate leaves. 



