526 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Sandberg li Leiberg 505; west Klickitat County, Suksdorf 1659; Skokomish River, Hender- 

 son, May 12, 1892; Pullman, Piper. 

 Zonal distribution: Transition. 



3. Galium bifolium S. Wats. Bot. King Explor. 134. 1871. 



Type locality: "In the Trinity, Battle, and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in 

 the Wahsatch.'' 



Range: Washington to California, Colorado, and Montana. 



Specimens exa.mined: Mount Adams, Suksdorf 328; Mount Stuart, Elmer 1101; 

 Klickitat River, Fhtt 1194: Blue Mountains, Piper 2406. 



Zonal distribition: Canadian? 



4. Galiiun kamtschaticum Steller; Room. & Schult. Mant. 3: 186. 1827. 

 Type locality: Kamtschatka. 



Range: Alaska to New England and Washington. Sil)eria. 

 Specimens e.xamined: Stevens Pass, Sandberg d: Ijeiberg 754. 



4a. Galium kamtschaticum oreganum (Britton). 



Galium oreganum Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 31. 1894. 



Type ix)cality: Oregon. Collected by Howell. 



Range: Washington and Oregon in the coast region. 



Specimens examined: Clallam County, Elmer 2547; Lake Cushman, Piper 921; Mount 

 Adams, Flett 1192; Goat Mountains, Allen 296; Ca-scade Mountains, Suksdorf 22; Ska- 

 mania County, Suksdorf 8/64; Skokomish Valley, Kincaid, May, 1892; Stampede Pass, Hen- 

 derson, July 2(5, 1892. 



Zonal distribution: Canadian. 



6. Galium boreale L. Sp. PI. 1: 108. 1753. 



Galium boreale linearifolium Rydlnrg, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Card. 1: 375. 1900. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae borealis pratis." 



Range: Alaska to Canada, southward to California, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Europe. 

 Asia. 



Specimens examined: Montesano, He2/«r4020; San Juan Island, LyoZ/ in 1858; Cascade 

 Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyallxn 1859; Muckleshoot Prairie, Dr. Ruhn; Snoqualmi;- Smith 

 605; Beaver Creek, Whited 18, 228; Ellensburg, Whited 437; North Yakima and Spokane, 

 Henderson, May 27, July 9, 1892; Pullman, HuZZ 556; Ptper 1504; without locality Vasey 

 in 1899. 



In some of the older l>otanical works our plant is erroneously referred to the European 

 G. rubioides L. 



Zonal distribution: Transition and Upper Sonoran. 



6. Galium trifidum subbiflorum Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 399. 1897. 



Type locality: Colorado. 



Range: Washington to Alberta, south to Arizona and California. 



Specimens examined: Westport, Lamb 1107; Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall in 

 1858; Ellensbuig, Whited 480; Nason Creek, Sandberg d; Leiberg 606; Pullman, Piper, July 

 25, 1895; Lake Kalispel, Kreager 444. 



Zonal distribution: Transition and Canadian. 



This subspecies has the flowers often 2 to each pedicel, and leaves 8 to 10 mm. long. 



The northwestern plants referred by Hookera to G. claytoni Michx. and G. tinctorium 

 L. undoubtedly belong to G. trifidum. 



6a. GaUum trifidum pacificum Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 400. 1897. 

 Type locality: Placer County, California. 

 Range: Washington to California. 



aFI. Bo". Am. 2:288. 1840. 



