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Brand’s monograph (Pflanzenr. iv. Fam. 251, 113, fig. 19. 
1913). It differs in its much longer narrower corolla, smaller, 
narrow capsule, and detached southern range. The two species 
are similar in gross aspect. The new species is named for Mr. 
David Keck, an enthusiastic young student, who helped collect 
the type and who has been of much assistance to the senior 
author in field work. 
“Galium gabrielense sp: nov. 
A dioecious perennial herb 5-20 cm. high, dull and cineres- 
cent throughout from a short hirsute pubescence, with a coarse 
duce short stolons; stems herbaceous, in crowded tufts, simple 
or branched only above, evidently quadrangular, each side 
bisulcate; Coa in whorls of 4, linear. or rarely oblongish, 5-10 
the s and the rat 
ane Seaoaih, short hirsute externally, with 4 oblong-ovate 
broadly acute spreading lobes, limb 3 mm. broad; fru x pikiih 
with thug a -I.5 mm.) white straight hairs: carpels 
thick, dry 
Los ANGELES County: Baldy U.S. F. S. Lookout, alt. 7000 
ft., Johnston 1262 (B); Cow Canyon Divide, June 7, 1919, 
Peirson (B). SAN BERNARDINO County: ridge east of Ontario 
Peak, alt. 8400 ft.,. Munz 6078 (TypE, Baker Herb. 13691); 
San Antonio Canyon, alt. 5750 ft., Johnston 1591 (B). 
This species is not uncommon in the pine-belt of the eastern 
section of the San Gabriel Mts. in the vicinity of Mt. San An- 
tonio. It frequents well drained gravelly situations under the 
pines and forms scattered open colonies I-2 m. broad. It was 
reported by Johnston (Plant World 22: 118. 1919) as doubt- 
fully referable to Galium siccatum Wight. Wight’s type is in 
the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences, and 
evidently represents a bushy fruticose plant 3-12 dm. high. It 
suggests G. angustifolium Nutt. in gross habit, and may be only 
a cinereous-puberulent phase of the Nuttallian species. Galiwm 
gabrielense is, hence, not a close relative of G. siccatum. Its 
relations are probably with G. multiflorum Kell. and its relatives, 
from which the new species is readily distinguished by its tufted 
strict habit, narrow leaves, and dull grayish hirsute pubescence. 
