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53. EUBIACEAE (Madder Family) 



1. GALIUM 



Fruit smooth 1. G. Brandegei 



Fruit hispidulous or bristly. 



Small delicate annual (2-6 inches high) ; hairs of the fruit minute 



2. G. bifolium 



Perennial with suffrutescent base; hairs of the bristly fruit longer than the 

 body 3. G. multiflorum 



1. Galium Brandegei Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 12, p. 58. 1877. 



Type locality. — "Valley of the Rio Grande, New Mexico, on Los 

 Pinos trail, at 9,000 feet, September, 1875, T. S. Brandegee." (On a 

 sheet of the original collection, now in the herbarium at Berkeley, 

 California, it is stated that the locality of the collection was in Colo- 

 rado, not in New Mexico, as given by Dr. Gray. ) 



Range. — California to Colorado and northward in the Rockies to 

 Saskatchewan. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — ^Webber Lake, Lemmon 1217 ; Suzy Lake, 

 Tahoe, forming small mats near the water, 7,800 feet, Smiley 151; 

 about Marlette Lake, Washoe County, Nevada, Baker 1412; Ostran- 

 der's, above Yosemite, Bolander 5025. 



2. Galium bifolium Wats., Bot. King's Exped., p. 134. 1871. 



Type locality. — "In the Trinity, Battle and East Humboldt Moun- 

 tains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 5-7,000 feet altitude." Watson 

 480. 



Range. — California to British Columbia, east to Colorado and 

 Wyoming. 



Zo^ie. — Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — Sierra County, Lemmon 548 ; above Donner 

 Lake toward Donner Pass, Heller, July 29, 1903 ; Glen Alpine, Tahoe, 

 7,000 feet, McGregor 151 ; Lake Lucile, Tahoe, Dudley, June 26, 1900 ; 

 Mt. Tallac, west slope above Gilmore Lake, 8,400 feet, Smiley 372; 

 near Stewart Edward White meadow. Sierra National Forest, Abrams 

 4988; Lake Tenaya, meadow south of the lake, 8,200 feet. Smiley 863a; 

 North Fork of King's River, 7,300 feet. Hall and Chandler 452. 



