526 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Sandberg cJ; Leiberg 505; west Klickitat County, Suhsdoif 1659; Skokomish River, Hender- 

 son, May 12, 1892; Pullman, Piper. 

 Zonal distribution: Transition. 



3. Galium bifoUum S. Wats. Bot. King Explor. 134.-1S71. 



Type locality; " In the Trinity, Battle, and Elast Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in 

 the Wahsateh." 



Range: Washington to California, Colorado, and Montana. 



Specimens examined: Mount Adams, Suh<idorf 328; Mount vStuart, Elmer 1101; 

 Klickitat River, Fleff 1194; Blue Mountains, Piper 2406. 



Zonal distribution: Canadian? 



4. Galium kamtschaticum Steller; Roem. & Schult. Mant. 3: 186. 1827. 

 Type locality: Kaintscliatka. 



Range: Alaska to New England and Washington. Siberia. 

 Specimens examined: Stevens Pa.ss, Sandberg d" Leiberg 754. 



4a. Galium kamtschaticum oreganum (Britton). 



Galium oreganum Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 31. 1894. 



Type locality: Oregon. Collected by Ilowell. 



Range: Washington and Oregon in the coast region. 



Specimens examined: Clallam County, Elmer 2547; Lake Cushman, Piper 921; Mount 

 Adams, Fleit 1192; Goat Mountains, Allen 296; Cascade Mountains, Svk.'idorf 22; Ska- 

 mania County, SuksdorfSM; Skokomish Valley, Kincaid, May, 1892; Stampede Pass, Uen- 

 der.'^on, July 26, 1892. 



Zonal distribution: Canadian. 



5. Galium boreale L. Sp. PI. 1: 108. 1753. 



Galium bunale Uncarifolium Rydberg, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 375. 1900. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae borealis pratis." 



Range: Alaska to Canada, southward to California, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Europe. 

 Asia. 



Specimens examined: Montesano, //e//er 4020; San Juan Island, Zya// in 1858; Cascade 

 Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyallm 1859; Muckleshoot Prairie, Z>r. Ruhn; Snoqualmi? Smith 

 605; Beaver Creek, Whited 18, 228; Ellensburg, Whited 437; North Yakima and Spokane, 

 Henderson, May 27, July 9, 1892; PuUnmn, Hull 556; Piper 1504; without locality Vasey 

 in 1899. 



In some of the older liotanical works our plant is erroneously referred to the European 

 G. rubioides L. 



Zonal distribution: Transition and Upper Sonoran. 



6. Galium trifidum subbiflorum Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 399. 1897. 

 Type locality: Colorado. 



Range: Washington to Alberta, south to Arizona and California. 



Specimens examined: Westport, Lamb 1107; Cascade Mountaias, latitude 49°, Lyall in 

 1858; Ellensburg, Whited 480; Nason Creek, Sandberg dc Leiberg 606; Pullman, Piper, July 

 25, 1895; Lake Kalispel, Kreager 444. 



Zonal distribution: Transition and Canadian. 



This subspecies has the flowers often 2 to each pedicel, and leaves 8 to 10 mm. long. 



The northwestern plants referred by Hooker a to G. claytoni Michx. and G. finclorium 

 L. undoubtedly iielong to G. trifidum. 



6a. Galium trifidum pacificum Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 400. 1897. 

 Type locality: Placer County, California. 

 Range: Washington to California. 



ffFl. Bo:-. Am. 2:288. 1840. 



