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Scutellaria Bolanderi Gray. Stems several from the root, 

 leafy, with the leaves overlapping, ovate, sessile, au inch or less 

 long, the lower crenate or dentate. Flowers shorter than the 

 leaves ; corolla tube short, with a broad throat, whitish or cream 

 color. Millwood. 



Stachys albens Gray. Stems tall, generally simple, densely 

 clothed with white wool. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, an inch or 

 two long, almost sessile, crenate, distant. Flowers almost sessile 

 in an interrupted spike, which is slender and wand-like with the 

 bracts diminishing upwards. Calyx densely woolly ; corolla 

 white with purple dots, smooth except for the hairy beard on 

 the back of the upper lip. Millwood, Bubbs Creek, and Kings 

 River Canon in swampy places. 



Trichostema oblongum Benth. Annual, with low, simple 

 or branching stems, slender, hairy. Leaves ovate-elliptical, about 

 an inch long, on very short petioles. Flowers in short clusters 

 in the leaf-axils ; calyx divisions narrowly pointed, very hairy ; 

 corolla dark blue, very small, scarcely longer than the calyx ; 

 flowers almost sessile. Big Boulder Creek, Millwood. 



RUBIACE/E. Madder Famii^y. 



Galium tinctorium submontanum Wight. Krect, with 

 slender branches, angles of the stem stiff-hairy. Leaves 4, 5, 6 in 

 a whorl, with margins and midrib rough. Flowers with corolla 

 3-4 parted, very small, on pedicels that are hair-like and recurve 

 in fruit ; fruit smooth. East Lake. 



Galium sparsiflorum Wight. Perennial, with branching 

 stems erect or reclining, a foot or two long, smooth. Leaves in 

 4's unequal, oval to ovate, yi in. or less long, mucronate, thin. 

 Flowers minute, axillary or terminal on hair-like pedicels ; fruit 

 smooth. Bubbs Creek, Converse Basin ; growing in shady places. 



Galium subscabridum Wight. Perennial, erect, branching, 

 a foot or so high, rather scabrous. Leaves oval to ovate, thin and 

 somewhat papery, yi in. or less long, i-nerved. Flowers solitary 

 in the upper axils. Fruit smooth on recurved, rather stout 

 pedicels. Millwood. 



Galium pubens Gray. Stems many from creeping branches 

 a foot or so high, densely hispid with white spreading hairs like 

 small bristles ; leaves oval to ovate, %-% in. long and half as 

 broad. Flowers reddish, almost sessile, generally 3 in a cluster. 

 Fruit smooth. Bubbs Creek. 



