134 BOTANY. 



from Canada to the Saskatchewan, and in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado ; 

 and on the Western Coast from Sitka to the Sacramento. In the Wahsatch 

 andUintas; 6-9,000 feet altitude; May-August. (478.) 



Sambucus glauca, Nutt. Somewhat arborescent, glabrous; leaflets 3-9, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrulate, the lower occasionally 3-parted ; 

 cyme large and spreading ; fruit glaucous-blue. — Growing 6-12° feet high, 

 with a trunk sometimes 6' or more in diameter ; leaflets 2-6' long, frequently 

 with foliaceous stipellate appendages ; fruit of more agreeable flavor than that 

 of S. Canadensis. From Washington Territory to Southern California and 

 in New Mexico. In the West and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and 

 in the Wahsatch ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (479.) 



RUBIACE^. 



Galium bifolium. Annual, erect, simple or branched, glabrous, un- 

 armed ; leaves 4-6" long, opposite, with occasionally an additional pair of 

 smaller stipules, oblong-lanceolate, usually acute, faintly 3-nerved ; peduncles 

 axillary and terminal, 1-flowered, about equaling the leaves ; corolla very 

 minute, white, with rounded lobes ; fruit hispid with hooked bristles. — Low, 

 (2-8',) with the branches alternate and opposite to a 1-flowered peduncle ; 

 fruit f" in diameter. In the Trinity, Battle and East Humboldt Mountains, 

 Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 5-7,000 feet altitude; May- July. Plate 

 XIV. Fig. 8. A plant ; natural size. (480.) 



Galium Aparine, L. Northern States and Canada, perhaps introduced ; 

 on the Western Coast from Unalaska and Sitka to California ; Sonora and 

 Arizona, to Western Texas. On the foot-hills through Nevada and about 

 Salt Lake Valley ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; May-July. (481.) 



Galium aspeeeimum. Gray. Plant. Fend/-., p. 60. Annual, diffusely 

 branching, the angles retrosely aculeolate ; leaves 6 in a A\-horl, lanceolate, 

 attenuate at base, or the lower obovate-lanceolate, setaceous at the apex, 

 glabrous and shining, the margins and midvein beneath very rough with re- 

 flexed prickles ; the leaves upon the branches small and much shorter than 

 the peduncles ; cyme several-flowered, dichotomous, panicled ; petals white 

 or purphsh, rather large; ovary covered with short hooked hairs. — Stems 

 weak, 2° in height; lower cauline leaves 9-12" long; flowers 1" or more in 

 diameter ; the mature fruit has not been collected. New Mexico and Call- 



