606 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



9. Galium aparine L. Sp. PI. 108. 175:;. Goosegrass. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Europae cultis & nideratis." 



Range: British America to California and Texas; also in Europe and Asia. 

 New Mexico: Sierra Grande; Organ Mountains; Ruidoso Creek; Gilmores Ranch. 

 Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 



10. Galium flaviflorum Heller; Rydb. Colo. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 100: 322. 1906. 

 Type locality: Santa Fe Canyon 9 miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type 



collected by Heller (no. 3823). 



Range: Colorado and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains. Moist 

 thickets, in the Transition Zone. 



11. Galium triflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 80. 1803. 



Sweet-scented bedstraw. 

 Type locality: "In umbrosis Canadae sylvis." 

 Range: British America to California, Texas, and Alabama. 



New Mexico: West Fork of the Gila; Tunitcha Mountains; Chama; Las Huertas 

 Canyon. Transition Zone. 



12. Galium asperrimum A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 60. 1849. 



Type locality: Wet places near irrigating ditches, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type 

 collected by Fendler (no. 289). 



Range: Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains; Rio Pueblo; 

 San Luis Mountains; White and Sacramento mountains. Transition Zone. 



2. CRUSE A Cham. 



Low glabrous annual, 10 to 20 cm. high, with linear leaves and sheathing stipules; 

 flowers small, white, in few-flowered clusters; calyx teeth 2 or 3, lanceolate, foliaceous, 

 with 1 or 2 much smaller and partly scarious ones; corolla salverform; stamena 4, 

 exserted; ovary 2-celled, the styles wholly or partly united, capillary; capsules didy- 

 mous, the carpels separating, indehiscent, thin- walled; seeds mostly oblong. 



1. Crusea subulata (Pa von) A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 78. 1883. 



Spermacoce subulata Pavon; DC. Prodr. 4: 543. 1830. 



Borreria subulata DC. loc. cit. 



Type locality: Mexico. 



Range: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and southward. 



New Mexico: Mogollon Mountains; Kingston; White Mountains. Open slopes, in 

 the Transition Zone. 



3. BOUVARDIA Salisb. Bouvarjha. 



Low shrub, the upper part of the stems herbaceous, with ovate-lanceolate short- 

 petiolate leaves 25 to 50 mm. long, mostly in whorls of 4, and with terminal cymes of 

 conspicuous heterogone-dknorphous red flowers; corolla slender-tubular; hypanthium 

 turbinate or campanulate; sepals 4, persistent; corolla lobes short, valvate in bud; 

 styles slender, more or less exserted in some of the flowers; stigmas 2, obtuse; ovary 

 2-celled; capsule didymous-globose, coriaceous; seeds numerous, flat, winged, imbri- 

 cated on the placenta. 



1. Bouvardia ovata A. Gray, PI. Wright. 2: 67. 1853. 

 Type locality: "Mountain valleys from San Pedro to Santa Cruz, Sonora." 

 Range: Southern New Mexico and Arizona and southward. 

 New Mexico: Animas Peak; Dog Mountains; San Luis Mountains. Dry hills. 



