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sometimes beset with soft and straight 

 bristles of aboat the length of the 

 body." Gray, Syn Fl 1:445. Catalina 

 (W. S. Lyon). 



GALIUM occiEKEiNTALE McCiatchie. 



"Perennial, herbaceous, slender, from 

 creeping rootstocks, 4-15 in. high, whole 

 plant hirsute: leaves in fours, thin, 

 fiat, elliptical or ovate, acute or acu- 

 minate, 3-6 lines long, 1-3 lines broad: 

 fls few, polygamous, terminal, yellow- 

 ish-white: ovary densely hirsute; ma- 

 ture fruit baccate, clothed with scat- 

 tered hairs, pearly white, changing to 

 black in drying, 1-1% lines in diame- 

 ter." McCiatchie, Erythea 2:124. 3,000- 

 4,000 ft., Los Angeles Co., along the old 

 Wilson trail. 

 ' GALIUM GRANDE McCiatchie. 



"Suffrutescent evergreen, the woody 

 stems 3-5 lines in diameter, 3-8 ft. long, 

 erect or reclining on bushes; herba- 

 ceous branches 4-12 in. long, these and 

 foliage cinerously hirsute or hispidu- 

 lous: leaves in fours, elliptic-oblong or 

 slightly broader above the middle, 

 acute (sometimes abruptly so) or acu- 

 minate, margins somewhat revolute, 

 3-6 lines long, 1-2% lines broad, lower 

 side lighter green: fls numerous, polyg- 

 amous, commonly terminal, occasion- 

 ally axillary. 1-5 on a peduncle, green- 

 ish yellow, 1-2% lines broad: ovary 

 densely hirsute; mature fruit baccate, 

 clothed with stiff hairs, at first nearly 

 white, but soon changing to black, 

 about 2 lines in diameter." McCiatch- 

 ie, Erythea 2:124. Wilson Peak, Los 

 Angeles Co., Calif. 

 GALIUM MIGUELE'NSE Greene. 



"Suffrutescent, evergreen, the pros- 

 trate stems 6-8 inches long, whole 

 plant covered with a sparse retrorse 

 pubescence: leaves oval, acute, l%-2% 

 lines long, dark green, coriaceous, in 

 age deflexed and almost imbricated on 

 the branches: berry large, glabrous, 

 pearl-white: flowers not seen. Island 

 of San Miguel." Greene, Pittonia 1:34. 

 GALIUM FLACCIDUM Greene. 



"Perennial, herbaceous, hirsute-pu- 

 bescent, the weak reclining stems a 

 foot long: leaves in fours, y 2 inch long, 

 narrowly oblong, obtuse or acutish, 

 very thin, 1-nerved: peduncles slender, 

 4-bracted below the solitary greenish 

 flower: ovary villous: fruit unknown. 

 Shady woods on the north side of San- 



ta Cruz Island, not common: resem- 

 bling G. Californicum, but doubtless a 

 dry-fruited species allied to the Mexican 

 G. uncinulatum." Greene, Pittonia 1: 

 34. 



GALIUM SICCATUM Wright. 



"Perennial, 1-4 ft high, erect and very 

 much branched! and bushy when growing 

 in some situations, or reclining in others; 

 the whole plant cineres-puberluent; Ivs 

 in fours, not rigid, linear, 4-8 lines long, 

 %-l line broad, barely mucronulate, mid- 

 rib not prominent; inflerescence cymose- 

 paniculate, fls polygamous, greenish- 

 yellow, numerous : fr a line long, densely 

 hispid with straight bristles." Wright, 

 Zoe 5:54. SD; to .San Ben i to Co.; Mohave. 



EUPATORIUM PASADENENSIS Parish 

 "Of the Eximbricata section; stems 

 slender and apparently herbaceous, 

 glandular-puberulent; upper Ivs opposite, 

 short petioled, ovate-deltoid, acute, and 

 at base cordate, serrate, thin, minutely 

 atomiferous beneath; cymes rather com- 

 pact, on dichotomous peduncles longer 

 than the Ivs, pedicles 1 cm long, with 2-3 

 linear bracts; heads 20-30 fl'd; involucral 

 bracts lanceolate, firm, 4 mm long, prorn.^ 

 inently 2-ribbed, the acute tips softer; 

 cor 4-5 mm long, glabrous, w, the filiform 

 tube twice the length of the expanded 

 throat: pappus scabrous, equalling- the 

 cor, very promptly deciduous; achenes 

 smooth, 5-angled, slightly arcuate, 1.5 

 mm longer; receptacle a little rounded." 

 Parish, Zoe 5:75. Pasadena (Me Clat- 

 chie). 



PENTACH^ETA ORCUTTII A. Gray. 



"P. aureae subsimilis; capitulis parvu- 

 Us; involucre villoso-pubescente, bracteis 

 viridioribus; ligulis brevioribus; pappi 

 setis 8-10 capillaribus basi haud dilatatis 

 caducis! Vallecito, in the northern part 

 of Lower California. C. R. Orcutt, May 

 4, 1886." A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., xxii, 

 309 (March 4, 1887). 



PENTACHCETA PALEACEA Greene. 



"A span high, with very numerous fili- 

 form branches: involucres small, scales 

 In 2 series, pubescent, setaceous-tipped: 

 corollas of ray and disk y.: akenes nearly 

 linear; pappus-bristles 5, slender, with a 

 thin, triangular palea at base." Greene. 

 Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., i. 189-190 (Aug. 29, 

 18S5). 

 PBNTACHAETA LYONI A. Gray. 



"Hirsute, at least the margins of the 

 plane linear or spatulate-linear leaves, 

 4-7 in. high, with the sparing ascend- 

 ing branches leafy up to the head or 

 short peduncle: involucre hirsute; its 

 bracts linear-lanceolate and of nearly 

 equal length, green, with narrow scari- 

 ous margins: pappus-bristles 9-11 or 

 commonly 12." Gray, Syn Fl 1:446. 

 Catalina and San Pedro, Cal (W. S. 

 Lyon). 



