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KUBIACEAE B. Juss. Hort. Trian. 1759. 

 Galium Andrewsii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 537. 1865. 



No. 8619, collected May 31, on Mt. Hamilton, Santa Clara 

 county, elevation 4000 feet, growing about rocks on the western 

 slope just below^ the observatory. It is said to occur on dry sum- 

 mits of the Coast Range from Lake county southward. No lo- 

 cality is given for the type, merely "California, Dr. Andrews." 



Galium spurium L. Sp. PI. 106. 1753. 



Galium Vaillantii DC. Fl. Franc. 4: 263. 1805. 



No. 8625, collected May 31, on Mt. Hamilton, Santa Clara 

 county, elevation 4000 feet, on a northerly slope below the ob- 

 servator)', growing about moss covered Ftones under oak trees. 

 A strange place for this introduced species, y,et we have no de- 

 scribed native species to which it can be referred. 



VALERIANACEAE Batsch, Tab. Affin. 227. 1802. 

 PLSctritis Davyana Jepson, Fl. West. Mid. Cal. 475. 1901. 



No. 8526, collected near Smith Creek, Santa Clara county, 

 elevation 2150 feet, growing in clayey ground along the road- 

 side. The flowers in this plant are pinkish, the spur long and 

 prominent* The sides of the fruit are less pubescent than in the 

 type, otherwise the agreement is perfect. Mr. Suksdoif, says it 

 "is very nearly the same as one of the forms that I have men- 

 tioned under Aligera ciliosa^ but if distinct from that the spe- 

 cies may be a good one." The type is no. 953 Davy, collected 

 at Antioch, Contra Costa county, and not reported from else- 

 where. 



Plkctritis aphanoptrra (Gray) Suksd. Deutsch. Bot, Monats. 

 4: 144. 1897. 

 Valerianella aphanoptera Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 83. 



1883. 

 No. 8483, collected April 27, back of Alum Rock Park, 

 Santa Clara county, in partly shaded places near shrubs in open 

 woods. Mr. Suksdorf, to whom a specimen was sent, says "the 



