Galium. RUBIAC'E.E. 41 



, G. Calif ornicum, Hook. & ^\kn. 'WlioUy herbaceous, from slender creeping rootstock?, 

 often in low tnfts, a span or two high, or diffuse, with slender stems a foot long, hispid or 

 hii-sute, rarely glabrate in age: leaves tbinuish, ovate or oval, apieulate-actuninate (quarter- 

 inch to half-inch long), marijius and midrib hispid-ciliate ; fruit glabrous, on recurved pedicels. 

 — Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beevli. 349 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. u. 20 (e-\cl. var. Tf .rami hi) : Gray, Bot. 

 Calif, i. 2S.3. — Shaily ground, common in the ivestern part of California, especially in the 

 coast ranges. 



G. Nuttallii, Ge.vy. Tall and much branched from snffrutescent base, often supported by 

 and as if climbing over bushes, or procumbent, mostly glabmus, except minutely aculeolate- 

 hispidulous angles of stem and margins of Icin es, these sometimes naked : leaves small, 

 oval to linear-obluug, mucronato, mucronulate, ur ubtuse: fruit smooth and glabrous. — PI. 

 Wright, i. SO, & r.iit. C.alif. i. 283. G. suffrulicosiim, Xutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 21, not 

 Hook, i ^Vru. — -California toward the coast, from San IJiego to Humboldt Co. 



■T— -t— BeiTv white (blackening in drying), very smooth, juicv. 

 G. Bolanderi, GE-iv. Herbaceous from a woody root, diffuse, a foot or two high, glabrous, 

 sometimes pubescent: angles of the stem not at all or hardly ^ea^rous: leaves oblong-linear 

 or lanceolate, rather acute, about half-iuch long, thicki.^li. with margins and midrib either 

 smooth and naked or s]iarsely hispidulous ; those of branchlets not rarely opjjosite : corolla 

 dull purplish. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 350, xix. 80, & Bot. Calif, i. 2S4. male plant. G. mar- 

 fjaricoccum. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xiii. 371, in fruit. — Dry ground, western side of Sierra 

 Xevada, California, from the Yosemite northward, and apparently to Humboldt Co. : first 

 coD. by Bolander, and the fruit by (Jmi/ and ILaiker. 



# * Xew ^Mexican, with linear leaves, dioecious : fruit unknown. 



G. F6ndleri, Gray, a sjiau or two high from a tufted frutescent base, cinereons-pubemlent 

 and barely scalu-uus, slemli-r: leaves hardly if at all rigid except the very small and scjua- 

 maceous ones ^^'hich are imbricated on the bases of the annual shoots ; those above linear, 

 about 4 lines long, less than line wide, rather acute, with midrib somewhat conspicuous be- 

 neath : flowers somewhat paniculate, short-pedicelled: corolla yellowish. — PI. Fendl. 60. — 

 Exposed mountain-sides, near !^anta Fe, Xe\^' Mexico, F^ndler, male plant; and a female 

 which is glabrous (also the ovary), or below barely pruinose-puberulent, perhaps not of the 

 species. Santa Eita ^Mountains, Arizona, Primili:. male only. 



^ # * Texano-Californian. herbaceous, with very narrow and rigid small leaves, and very small 

 white corollas. 



G. And.re'Wsii, Geat. Depressed-cespitose and with slender creeping rootstocks, glabrous 

 or nearlv so: the matted tufts a, span or less high : leaves very crowded, acerose-snbulate, 

 usually shining, either naked or sparsely spiniJosc-ciliate, 2 to 4 lines Luig : flowers dioecious ; 

 male slender-pedicelled in few-flowered terminal c^Tnes; female solitary, subtended by a 

 whorl of leaves which are longer than the fructiferous at length deflexed pedicel : berry 

 dark-colored, smooth. — Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 53S, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. 236. — Dry hills, on the 

 coast of Calif Druia from Lake Co. to San Diego, and in the interior to Tejon, first coU. by 

 I)r. Andreas. 



■ G. microph^llum, Geat. Diffusely spreading or ascending, smooth and glabrous, but 



not shining ; branches a span to afoot long: leaves shorter than the internodes and narrowly 

 linear (or small, broader, and crowded at the base of stems), usuaUv mucronate, with narrow 

 midrib prominent beneath and callous naked margins, mostly 2 to 4 (rarely 5 or 6) lines 1. >ng : 

 flowers apparently all hermaphrodite, sulitary on a very sliort or on a longer and peduncle- 

 like axillarv branchlet and sessile in its whorl of involucriform lea\ es, or this proliferous and 

 bearino- a second whorl and flower: ovary and young fruit scabro-pulierulotis or at length 

 granulose, at maturity fleshy-baccate. — PL Wright, i. SO, ii. 66. Eetbunium miaophyllum, 

 Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. ii. 63. — Eocky ravines, &c., S. W. Texas to S. Arizona, first ■ 

 coll. liv Wright. (Adj. Jlex., where there is a pubescent variety, Relhunium pohjplocum, 

 Hemsl! \. c.) 



# * * * Atlantic Xorth American, herbaceous, with oval to linear leaves, and u-ually solitarv" 

 hermaphrodite flowers: corolla white; berry purf.le, in our species naked-pedicellate beyond the 

 ultimate involucriform whorl, mostly pendulous at m.ituritj-. — Relbnmum, Bentb. & Hook. 



■ G. Tiniflorum, Michx. Smooth and glabrous : stems assurgent from ffliform rootstocks, 



slender, rather simple : leaves linear (about inch long and a line ■n'ide), m ith somewh.at 



