40 EUBIACEoE. Galium. 



(half-inch to inch long or on tranches shorter, half-line to line wide) : cymes small, in 

 narrow panicles, the fertile more or less condensed : corolla a line or two in diameter, 

 dull white ; bristles of the fruit about the length of the bodj'. — Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 285. 

 G. trichocarjnim,'Nntt. (not DC.) & G. aytgustifolium, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 82. — 

 California, common from Santa Barbara to San Diego, Tejon, and apparently to the 

 Mohave. 



-H- -w- Leaves narrowly -lanceolate to ovate, with midrib prominent beneath and continuous with 

 stem-angles, sometimes a pair of lateral nei'ves: stems low or diffuse. 



G. Mattliewsii, Grat. Glabrous and smooth, paniculately much branched, woody at base : 

 leaves rigid, oblong- to ovate-lanceolate, veinless, with stout midrib, 2 or 3 lines long, some 

 of the upper cuspidate-acute : flowers (of fertile plant) naked-paniculate : corolla barely a 

 line in diameter : bristles of immature fruit rigid, not longer than the body. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xix. 80. Arid district, Inyo Co , E. California, Dr. Matthews. Probably same from 

 borders of S. W. Colorado and New Mexico, with rather longer and narrower leaves, 

 Brande'ie(;. 



"G. stellatum, Kellogs. Diffuse and bushy from woody base, a foot or two high, much 

 branched, hispidulous-puberulent, sometimes nearly glabrous : leaves rigid, ovate-lanceolate 

 (and 4 or 5 lines long) to narrow-lanceolate and small on flowering branches, acuminate- 

 cuspidate, destitute of lateral nerves and veins ; margins either naked or hispidulous-ciliate : 

 flowers paniculate and crowded : corolla white, little over a line in diameter : bristles of the 

 fruit soft and flaccid at maturity, longer than the body. — Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 97, fig. 26. 

 G. ar.utissiiitiim, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 350, male plant. — Rocky canons and dry hiUs, 

 S. Utah and Arizona, first coll. by Newberry. (Islands off Lower California.) 



■• G. mnltiflfSmm, Kellogg. A span to a foot high from a barely snffrutescent base, in 

 tufts, glabrous, pruinose-puberulent or sometimes pubescent : leaves from broadly ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, mucronate-apiculate, or minutely and abruptly acuminate, thickish, 4 to 7 

 lines long, a pair and sometimes two pairs of indistinct or obvious lateral nerves from the base ; 

 uppermost leaves on flowering shoots usually only opposite : flowers short-pedicelled, thyr- 

 soid-crowded in upper axils, or the fertile often solitary and sparse : corolla yellowish, a line 

 or two in diameter : fruit when well formed densely clothed with liirsute bristles considera- 

 bly longer than the body. — Proc. Calif. Acad. 1. 1 ., fig. 27. ( Very poor name, the flowers not 

 abundant for the genus and scattered.) G. Blcomeri & G. hyjjot.richium. Gray, Proc. Am. ^\cad. 

 vi. 538, the latter founded on imperfect specimens with polygamous flowers and undei'eloped 

 fruit. G. Bloomeri & G. niiilliflonim, Watson, Bot. King Exp. 135 ; Grav, Bot. Calif, i. 285. — 

 E. California to Utah, on the mountains of the drier districts, first coll. by Bloomer, Veutch, 

 &c. Specimens east of the Sierra Nevada and vicinity mostly of the subjoined var. 



Var. "Watsoni. Mostly glabrous and smooth : leaves thinner, oblong-lanceolate 

 (commonly aliout half-inch long and 2 lines wide), with lateral nerves eitlier distinct or 

 obsolete. — G. multiflorum, 'Watson, 1. c. in great part — Cafions and gulches, X. Arizona 

 to E. ( >regon and adjacent Idaho. 



Var. hirsutum, G. Bloomeri, vnr. liirsutum, Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c, is an ambiguous 

 form, with Ijroad but thinnish leaves and whole herbage hirsute-pubescent. — Sierra A";iUey, 

 California, Lfunnon. 



§ 3. Indigenous species, perennials : fruit baccate (leaves 4 in the -nliorls, one- 

 nerved). — Relhunium, Endl. 



* Facific species, witli ovate to oblong-ljncar (not rigid acerose) leave.s: flowers of most and per- 

 haps of all subdicccious oi- polygamous, yellowish, purplish, or white; sterile flowers in small 

 loose cymes; fertile somewhat solitary and scattered. 



-1— Berry so far as known purple or black, small. 

 G. piibens, Gray. Wholly hei'l.aceous, somcwliat cinereous with a fine and partly soft 

 partly scabrous pubescence : stems much branched, diffuse, a foot ..r two lon^- : leaves' from 

 roundish-o^■al to oblong, thickish, mostly pointless (largest half-inch long); margins at nuist 

 hispidulous-scabrous : forming fruit glabrous and smooth; mature fruit not se\m, probably 

 fleshy. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 35(1 ; Bot. Calif, i. 284, with var. ^rabridam, growing in more 

 expo.sed situations. — California, in and near Yoscmite Valley, first coll. bv forrei; ami 

 Bolander. 



