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2. KELLOGOIA,, Ton-ey. Slender perennial, with opposite leaves, 

 and loosely cymose-panicled small pinkish flowers. Calyx-tube obovoid, 

 somewhat flattened laterally, beset with bristles; teeth 4, very small, 

 subulate, persistent. Corolla funnelform; lobes valvate. Stamens 4, in 

 the throat of the corolla; filaments short; anthers linear. Style slender; 

 ovary 2-celled; ovules erect. Fruit small, oblong, coriaceous, uncinate- 

 hispid, splitting into two 1-seeded carpels which are indehiscent, 1-seeded. 

 Embryo large, straight, in fleshy albumen. 



1. K. filicides, Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exp. t. 6 (1862); Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vi. 539 (1865). About 1 ft. high, glabrous or minutely pubescent: 

 leaves lanceolate, sessile, the stipules small and scarious: fl. small, in a 

 loose dichotomous cyme; the long pedicels thickened above and articu- 

 lated with the flower: corolla white, with a tinge of rose-purple, 3 — 5 

 lines long, pubescent on the outside. — Foothills of the Sierra Nevada, 

 from Kern Co. northward, in shady woods, and also at higher altitudes. 

 A neat but not showy plant, not very different from Galimu except in 

 the elongated corolla. 



3. SHERARDIl, Dillenius. Annual, slender, rough, with angular 

 stem, and exstipulate leaves in verticels of 6. Flowers umbellate. Calyx- 

 limb of 4 —6 accrescent teeth. Corolla salverform, with a slender tube 

 and 4-cleft limb. Stamens 4. Fruit didymous, of 2 dry indehiscent 

 1-seeded carpels, crowned by the calyx-teeth, and separating from each 

 other when ripe. 



1. S. ARVENSis, Linn. Sp. PI. i. 102 (1753). About 3—6 in. high, 

 hispidulous-roughened or nearly glabrous: leaves obovate-lanceolate, 

 acute: fl. in small subsessile umbellate cymes: corolla bluish. Vicinity 

 of Berkeley; first found by Mr. C. T. Blake, in 1889; observed also in 

 1891, on the university grounds, by Mr. Bioletti; naturalized from Europe. 



4. GALIUM, Dioscorides (Bedsteaw. Cleavers). Herbaceous (rarely 

 suffrutescent), with slender angixlar stems, verticillate leaves without 

 stipules (or the smaller leaves of the whorls to be considered as stipular 

 organs ? ), and small usually cymose flowers. Calyx-limb obsolete. 

 Corolla rotate, 4-parted (sometimes 3- or 5-parted). Stamens as many as 

 the corolla-lobes, short. Styles 2, short: stigmas capitate: ovary 2-lobed, 

 2-celled, 2-ovuled. Fruit didymous (biglobular), dry or fleshy, separating 

 into 2 closed 1-seeded carpels which are indehiscent, and glajarous, hispid, 

 echinate or hirsute. 



* Fruit dry ivhen ripe.. — Galium proper. 

 H— Annuals. 



1. G. bifolium, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 134. t. 14, f. 8 (1871). Simple, 

 or at length with few branches, erect, 3 — 6 in. high, glabrous: leaves in 



