232 MADDER FAMILY 



of Galium but the larger, funnelform corollas readily dis- 

 tinguish it. The genus, which contains but the single species, 

 was named in honor of Dr. Albert Kellogg, a botanist and 

 early member of the California Academy of Sciences. 



2. GALIUM. Bedstraw. Cleavers. 

 Branching plants, often with rough stems which are en- 

 circled at the joints by whorls of narrow leaves. Corolla 

 rotate, its lobes sharply pointed. Style 2-cleft. Ovary 2- 

 celled, 2-lobed, developing into a dry or fleshy fruit, some- 

 times bur-like. 



A. Fruit dry. 

 Leaves without bristle-like tips, mostly 4 in each circle 

 (varying to 6 in G. trifidum and to 3 or 2 in G. 

 bifolium). 

 Fruit short-hairy; leaves about Y 2 in. long; smooth 



slender annual under 6 in 1. G. bifolium. 



Fruit smooth, glabrous; pedicels shorter than leaves; 



smooth slender matted perennial under 6 in 2. G. brandegei. 



Fruit smooth, glabrous; pedicels longer than leaves; 



rough slender perennial, 6 in. to 2 ft. long 3. G. trifidum. 



Leaves with short bristle-like tips, 6 to 8 in each circle; 

 stems 1 ft. or more long. 



Fruit rough with short hairs or merely granular 4. G. asperrimum. 



Fruit bristly with long hooked hairs. 



Perennial; leaves mostly 6 in each circle 5. G. triHorum. 



Coarse annual; leaves mostly 7 or 8 to each circle. .6. G. aparine. 



B. Pruit fleshy, berry-like; leaves 4 in each, circle; perennials. 



Stems and leaves grayish with short stiff hairs 7. G. pubens. 



Stems and leaves rough, especially on edges, but green. 



Leaves V\ in. or less wide 8. G. bolanderi. 



Leaves ^ to l / 2 in. wide 9. G. subscabridum. 



1. G. bifolium Wats. A very slender annual, 2 to 6 in. 

 high, smooth and glabrous. Leaves narrow, the upper ones 

 apparently only opposite, the larger fully Yz in. long. Fruits 

 rough with short hairs, recurved on the slender scattered 

 pedicels. — Snow Creek at 6500 ft. alt.; common in the Sierra 

 Nevada. 



2. G. brandegei Gray. A delicate perennial, 2 to 6 in. high, 

 growing in dense mats, smooth and glabrous or nearly so. 

 Leaves many, small, seldom over l /\ in. long. Fruits 

 smooth, on scattered pedicels which are shorter than the 

 leaves. — A rare Rocky Mt. species, to which specimens from 

 Ostranders, near Yosemite, have been referred. 



3. G. trifidum var. pacificum Wiegand. Perennial from 

 slender rootstocks; the weak stems usually 1 ft. or more 



