Galium. RUBIACE^. 4 1 



G. Califomicum, Hook. & Arn. Wholly herbaceous, from slender creeping rootstocks, 

 ofteu in low tufts, a span or two high, or diffuse, with slender stems a foot long, hispid or 

 hirsute, rarely glabrate in age: leaves thinnish, ovate or oval, apiculate-acuminate (quarter- 

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

 — Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 349 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. u. 20 (excl. var. Tcxcmum) ; Gray, Bot. 

 Calif, i. 283. — Shady ground, common in the western part of California, especially in the 

 coast ranges. 



G. Nuttallii, Gray. Tall and much branched from suffrutescent base, often supported by 

 and as if climbing over hushes, or procumbent, mostly glabrous, except minutely aculeolate- 

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



oval to linear-oblong, mucronate, mucronulate, or obtuse : fruit smooth and glabrous. PI. 



Wright, i. 80, & Bot. Calif, i. 283. G. suffruticosum, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, M. ii. 21, not 

 Hook. & Am. — California toward the coast, from San Diego to Humboldt Co. 



••— -1— Berry white (blackening in drying), very smooth, juicy. 

 Gr. Bolanderi, Gray. Herbaceous from a woody root, diffuse, a foot or two high, glabrous, 

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

 or lanceolate, rather acute, about half-inch long, thickish, with margins and midrib either 

 smooth and naked or sparsely hispidulous ; those of branchlets not rarely opposite : corolla 

 dull purplish. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 350, xix. 80, & Bot. Calif, i. 284, male plant. G. mar- 

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

 Nevada, California, from the Yosemite northward, and apparently to Humboldt Co. ; first 

 coll. by Bolander, and the fruit by Gray and Hooker. 



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

 Gr. Pendleri, Gray. A span or two high from a tufted frutescent base, cinereous-puberulent 

 and barely scabrous, slender : 'leaves hardly if at all rigid except the very small and squa- 

 maceons ones which 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. Pendl. 60. — 

 Exposed mountain-sides, near Santa Fe', New Mexico, Fendler, male plant ; and a female 

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

 species. Santa Pita Mountains, Arizona, Pringle, male only. 



# # # Texanc-Californian, herbaceous, with very narrow and rigid small leaves, and very small 

 white corollas. 



Gr. Andrews]!, Gray. Depressed-cespitose and with slender creeping rootstocks, glabrous 

 or nearly so ; the matted tufts a span or less high : leaves very crowded, acerose-subulate, 

 usually shining, either naked or sparsely spinulose-ciliate, 2 to 4 lines long : flowers dicecious ; 

 male slender-pedicelled in few-flowered terminal cymes ; 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. 538, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. 286. — Dry hills, on the 

 coast of California from Lake Co. to San Diego, and in the interior to Tejon, first coll. by 

 Dr. Andrews. Also Oregon, Howell. 



Gr. microph^llum, Gray. 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), usually mucronate, with narrow 

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

 flowers apparently all hermaphrodite, solitary on a very short or on a longer and peduncle- 

 like axillary branchlet and sessile in its whorl of involucriform leaves, or this proliferous and 

 hearing a second whorl and flower : ovary and young fruit scabro-puberulous or at length 

 granulose, at maturity fleshy-baccate. — PI. Wright, i. 80, ii. 66. Relbunium microphyllum, 

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

 coll. by Wright. (Adj. Mex., where there is a pubescent variety, Relbunium polyplocum, 

 Hemsl. 1. c.) 



# # * # Atlantic North American, herbaceons, with oval to linear leaves, and usually solitary 

 hermaphrodite flowers: corolla white: berry purple, in our species naked-pedicellate beyond the 

 ultimate involucriform whorl, mostly pendulous at maturity. — Relbunium, Benth. & Hook. 



G. uninorum, Michx. Smooth and glabrous : stems assurgent from filiform rootstocks, 

 slender, rather simple : leaves linear (about inch long and a line wide), with somewhat 



