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fornia, (6350 Bolander.) Ruby Valley, Nevada ; 6,000 feet altitude ; Au- 

 gust. (482.) 



Galium Bloomeei, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad. 6. 538. Perennial, sufFru- 

 tescent at base, glabrous, unarmed, erect, diffusely branched ; leaves in fours, 

 sessile, broadly ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, somewhat 3-nerved, opaque, the 

 floral ones often only opposite ; flowers ochroleucous, by abortion dioecious, 

 the staminate short-peduncled and cymose, the pistillate subsolitary; fruit 

 densely hirsute. — Stems paniculately branched, 3-12' high ; leaves 2-5" in 

 length, often nearly orbicular, somewhat rigid, shorter than the fruiting pedi- 

 cels ; fruit 1" in diameter, occasionally nearly naked, with a few hairs at base. 

 Found'by Dr. Bloomer near Virginia City ; also collected by Stretch, and not 

 rare on the Washoe and West Humboldt Mountains ; 5-8,000 feet altitude ; 

 May-September. (483.) 



Galium multifloeum, Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 2. 97. Fig. 27. {Q. hy- 

 potrichium, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad. 6. 538.) Perennial, suffrutescent at 

 base, minutely scabrous or sometimes aculeolate, erect, branched ; leaves in 

 fours, sessile, roundish ovate to oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, somewhat 

 3-nerved, the floral ones opposite ; flowers ochroleucous, dioecious or some- 

 what monoecious or perfect, solitary or somewhat cymulose ; pedicels about 

 equaling the leaves, usually becoming deflexed in fruit; fruit densely hirsute. — 

 Stems 3-6' high, rather rigid. Much resembling the last, from which it 

 differs in its general scabrous pubescence and deflexed pedicels, which are 

 rather shorter, and the leaves usually more narrow. Discovered in the Washoe 

 Mountains by Dr. Veatch and also found by Brewer at Sonora Pass in the 

 Sierras ; frequent in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the 

 Wahsatch ; 5-9,000 feet altitude ; June-August. (484.) 



Galium teifidum, L. From Florida and Western Louisiana northward 

 to the Arctic Circle, and through nearly the whole region westward to the 

 Pacific, but rare between the Mississippi and the Sierras ; New Mexico, 

 (Wright,) and in the Wahsatch Mountains; 6,000 feet altitude; June- 

 July. (485.) 



Galium teifloeum, Mx. From Florida to Louisiana and northward to 

 Canada, and through British America below latitude 55° to the Pacific; 

 Washington Territory to California ; Western Texas, (Lindheimer.) In the 

 Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6-7,000 feet 

 altitude ; July-September. (486.) 



