40 RUBIACE^. Galium. 



(half-iuch to iucli long or on branches shorter, half-line to line wide) : cymes small, in 

 narrow panicles, the fertile more or less condensed : corolla a line or two in diameter, 

 dull white; bristles of the fruit about the length of the body. — Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 285. 

 G. tric/iocarpiim,'Nutt. (not DC.) & G. angustifolhim, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 82. — 

 California, common from Santa Barbara to San Diego, Tejon, and apparently to the 

 Mohave. 



++ ++ Leaves narrowly-lanceolate to ovate, with midrib prominent beneath and continuous with 

 stem-angles, sometimes a pair of lateral nerves: stems low or diffuse. 



G. Matthewsii, Gray. Glabrous and smooth, paniculately much branched, woody at base : 

 leaves rigid, oblong- to ovate-lanceolate, veinle.ss, with stout midrib, 2 or 3 lines long, some 

 of the upper cuspidate-acute: flowers (of fertile plant) naked-paniculate: corolla barely a 

 line in diameter : bristles of immature fruit rigid, not longer tlian the body. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xix. 80. Arid district, Inyo Co., E. California, Dr. Matthews. Proliably same from 

 borders of S. W. Colorado and New Mexico, with rather longer and narrower leaves, 

 Brandeijre. 



G-. stellatum, Kellogg. Diffuse and bushy from woody base, a foot or two high, much 

 branclied, hispidulous-puberulent, sometimes nearly glabrous: leaves rigid, ovate-lanceolate 

 (and 4 or 5 lines long) to narrow-lanceolate and small on flowering branches, acuminate- 

 cuspidate, destitute of lateral nerves and veins ; margins either naked or hispidulous-ciliate : 

 flowers paniculate and crowded : corolla white, little over a line in diameter : bristles of the 

 fruit soft and flaccid at niaturity, longer than the body. — Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 97, fig. 26. 

 G. acutisslmum, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 350, male plant. — Pocky canons and dry hills, 

 S. Utah and Arizona, first coll. by Newberry. (Islands off Lower California.) 



G. multiflorum, Kellogg. A span to a foot high from a barely suffrutescent base, in 

 tufts, glabrous, pruinose-puberulent or sometimes pubescent : leaves from broadly ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, mucronate-apiculate, or minutely and abruptly acuminate, thickish, 4 to 7 

 lines long, a pair and sometimes two pairs of indistinct or obvious lateral nerves from the base ; 

 uppermost leaves on flowering shoots usually only opposite : flowers short-pedicelled, thyr- 

 soid-crowded in upper axils, or the fertile often solitary and sparse : corolla yellowish, a line 

 or two in diameter : fruit when well formed densely clothed with hirsute bristles considera- 

 bly longer than the body. — Proc. Calif. Acad. 1. c, fig. 27. ( Very poor name, the flowers not 

 abundant for the genus and scattered.) G. Bloomeri & G. hi/potrichium, Gray, Prt)c. Am. Acad, 

 vi. 538, the latter founded on imperfect specimens with polygamous flowers and undeveloped 

 fruit. G. Bloomeri & G. multijlorum, Watson, Bot. King Exp. 135 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 285. — 

 E. California to Utah, on the mountains of the drier districts, first coll. by Bloomer, Veatch, 

 &c. Specimens east of the Sierra Nevada and vicinity mostly of the subjoined var. 



Var. ^Tatsoni. Mostly glalirous aiid smooth : leaves thinner, oblong-lanceolate 

 (commonly about half-inch long and 2 lines wide), with lateral nerves eitlier distinct or 

 obsolete. — G. multijlontm, Watson, 1. c. in great part. — Caiious and gulciies, N. Arizona 

 to E. Oregon and adjacent Idaho. 



Var. hirsutum, G. Bloomeri, var. hirsutum. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c, is an ambiguous 

 form, with broad but thinnish leaves and whole herbage hirsute-pubescent. — Sierra Valley, 

 California, Lemmon. 



§ 3. Indigenous species, perennials : fruit baccate (leaves 4 in the -nhorls, one- 

 nerved). — Relbuniuin, Endl. 



* Pacific species, with ovate to oblong-linear (not rigid acerose) leaves: flowers of most and per- 

 haps of all subdia'cions or polygamous, j-ellowisli, purplish, or white; sterile flowers in small 

 loose cymes; fertile somewhat solitary and scattered. 



-i— Berry so far as known purple or black, small. 



G. pubens, Gray. Wholly herbaceous, somewhat cinereous with a fine and partly soft 

 partly scabrous pubescence : stems mucli branched, diffuse, a foot or two long : leaves from 

 roundish-oval to oblong, thickish, mostly pointless (largest half-inch long); margins at most 

 hispidulons-scabrous : forming fruit glal)rous and smooth ; mature fruit not seen, probably 

 fleshy. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 350 ; Bot. Calif, i. 284, with var. smhridum, growing in more 

 exposed situations. — California, in and near Yosemitc Valley, first coll. by Torrei/ and 

 Bolander. 



