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A variety of the pine-belt and differing from the typical 
form of the species only in habit of growth. Additional speci- 
mens referable to this variety are the following: Santa Lucia 
Mountains, K. Brandegee, on the north, and Cuyamaca Moun- 
tains, T. S. Brandegee, July 7, 1894, on the south. Plants from 
the San Jacinto Mountains, Hall 2509, have the growth-habit 
of the variety, but are strictly branched and become 5-7 dm. 
high. The variety has been mentioned without a formal name 
by Johnston (Pl. World 22: 118. 1919). 
¥Galium Hallii sp. nov. 
Dioecious ie eke at the base, with relatively 
few long (4-6 dm. mbent quadrangular stems, you ipa 
stems short-hispid, older stems glabrate and with a shin 
foliating papery bark; leaves in fours, hirsute like the tenes: Se 
light green, ovate-elliptical to elliptical, 5-11 mm. long, sessile, 
margins strongly revolute, midvein strong, lateral veins weak 
or absent; flowers borne in loose leafy clusters on the con- 
spicuously and gracefully recurved tips of the branchlets, yellow- 
ish, about 2 mm. in diameter, bearing a few stiff hairs; fruit 
black, slightly juicy, ned. 3 mm. in diameter, covered with 
dense villous hairs of 2 mm. length. 
Type: Coldwater Fork of Lytle Creek, San Gabriel Moun- 
tains, in gravelly ground at 5200-5700 feet altitude, July 7, 
1918, Johnston 2067 (Univ. Calif. Herb.). 
Specimens examined: Coldwater Fork of Lytle Creek, San 
Gabriel Mountains, 5500 ft. alt. Johnston 1667; Lytle Creek, 
5750 ft. alt., Hall 1227; Rock Creek Canyon, San Gabriel Moun- 
tains, Abrams & McGregor 598; Seymour Creek, Mt. Pinos 
region, 6700 ft. alt., Hall 6505; Tehachepi, 1889, Greene; Erskin 
Creek, 4—5000 ft. alt., Purpus 5340, 
This is a remarkably clear-cut undescribed species of the 
G. multiflorum-alliance that has been confused with G. multt- 
florum, G. stellatum, and G. occidentale; from all of these it 
certainly differs and can be distinguished by its nodding flower- 
clusters. The plant has been recognized as distinct for several 
years, and the increasing material at hand seems to justify its 
description as a new species. It has been treated as ‘‘Galium 
sp.”’ by Johnston (Pl. World 22: 118. 1919). 
The range is eminently a natural one, for the plant occurs 
at and just below the lower relies of the _— belt i in the rocky 
canyons that open into th of the Mohave 
