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fornia, (6350 Bolander.) Ruby Valley, Nevada; 6,000 feet altitude ; Au- 
gust. (482.) 
Galium Bloomeei, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad 6. 538. Perennial, sufFru- 
tescent at base, glabrous, unarmed, erect, diffusely branched ; leaves in fours, 
sessile, broadly ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, somewhat 3-nerved, opaque, the 
floral ones often only opposite ; flowers ochroleucous, by abortion dioecious, 
the staminate short-peduncled and cymose, the pistillate subsolitary ; fruit 
densely hirsute. — Stems paniculately branched, 3-12' high ; leaves 2-5" in 
length, often nearly orbicular, somewhat rigid, shorter than the fruiting pedi- 
cels ; fruit 1" in diameter, occasionally nearly naked, with a few hairs at base. 
Found by Dr. Bloomer near Virginia City ; also collected by Stretch, and not 
rare on the Washoe and West Humboldt Mountains ; 5-8,000 feet altitude ; 
May-September. (483.) 
Galium multifloeum, Kell. Proc. Cal Acad. 2. 97. Fig. 27. {G. liy- 
potrichium, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad 6. 538.) Perennial, suffrutescent at 
base, minutely scabrous or sometimes aculeolate, erect, branched ; leaves in 
fours, sessile, roundish ovate to oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, somewhat 
3-nerved, the floral ones opposite ; flowers ochroleucous, dioscious or some- 
what monoecious or perfect, solitary or somewhat cymulose ; pedicels about 
equahng the leaves, usually becoming deflexed in fruit; fruit densely hirsute.— 
Stems 3-6' high, rather rigid. Much resembhng the last, from which it 
differs in its general scabrous pubescence and deflexed pedicels, which are 
rather shorter, and the leaves usually more narrow. Discovered in the Washoe 
Mountains by Dr. Veatch and also found by Brewer at Sonora Pass in the 
Sierras; frequent in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the 
Wahsatch ; 5-9,000 feet altitude ; June-August. (484.) 
Galium teifidum, L. From Florida and Western Louisiana northward 
to the Arctic Circle, and through nearly the whole region westward to the 
Pacific, but rare between the Mississippi and the Sierras ; New Mexico, 
(Wright,) and in the Wahsatch Mountains; 6,000 feet altitude; June- 
July. (485.) 
Galium teifloeum, Mx. From Florida to Louisiana and northward to 
Canada, and through British America below latitude 55° to the Pacific ; 
Washington Territory to California ; Western Texas, (Lindheimer.) Li the 
Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6-7,000 feet 
altitude ; July-September. (486.) 
