Galium. HL'SIACE.E. 2S5 



bright white, fragrant : fruit small, hispidulous when young, often soon 

 glabrous. Rocky banks of streams, Oregon to Alaska and across the con- 

 tinent 



■*- •*- Pointless leaves in fours, fives or sixes; small, 1-nerved. 



G. trifldum L. Sp. i, 105. Stems almost filiform; erect ; branching, 

 6-20 inches high, smooth, except the retrorsely hispid angles; leaves lin- 

 ear to oblanceolate, obtuse, 4-8 lines long ; the midrib beneath and the 

 margin sparsely hispidulous : peduncles scattered, 1-several-flowered : 

 flowers white, sometimes 3-merous : fruit small, smooth. In wet places, 

 California to Alaska and across the continent. 



+-. •*- •*- Leaves in sixes, sometimes fives or on the branchlets fours, 

 cuspidately mucronate or acuminate. 



0. asperrimum Gray PI. Fendl. 60 and Bot. Cal. i, 281. stems erect 

 or diffusely ascending, but weak, 1-2 feet long; leaves lanceolate. 6-12 

 lines long: cymes twice or thrice dichotomous. with filiform peduncles 

 and pedicels: corolla white or turning purplish: ovary merely puberu- 

 lent or scabrous : fruit granulate-scabrous and sometimes minutely his- 

 pidulous. Shady places in mountains, eastern Oregon to California and 

 New Mexico. 



G. triflorum Michx. Fl. i, 80. Stems slender, diffusely procumbent 

 smoothish, 1-3 feet long: leaves elliptical-lanceolate to narrowly oblong- 

 1-2 inches long : cymes once or twice H-rayed : pedicels soon divaricate : 

 corolla yellowish-white to greenish, its lobes hardly surpassing the bristles 

 of the ovary: fruit uncinate-hispid. In forests, California to \laska and 

 across the continent. 



# * * Perennials with somewhat woody base: leaves 4, in the 

 whorls, without any roughness ; fruit hirsute with long and straight 

 bristles. 



(t. multiflorum Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. ii. 97. Suffrutescent at base : 

 minutely scabrous topruinoseor glabrous: stems erect, tufted, 2-1*2 inches 

 high: leaves in fours or the uppermost ones in twos, sessile, ovate to ob- 

 long-lanceolate, mucronate-apiculate or abruptly acuminate, 4-8 lines 

 long, with 2 or sometimes 4 lateral nerves from the base : flowers yellow- 

 ish or greenish, dioecious mon«ecious or perfect, solitary or somewhat 

 cymose or thyrsoid-paniculate : fruit usually covered with long white 

 bristles. In dry or rocky gulches, southern Oregon to California. Nevada 

 and Utah. 



Tar. Watsoni Gray Syn. Fl. i, pt. 2, 40. Mostly glabrous and 

 smooth : leaves thinner, oblong-lanceolate; commonly about 6 lines long 

 by 2 lines broad, with lateral nerves either distinct or obsolete. In dry 

 gulches, southeastern Oregon to Arizona and Idaho. 



§ 2 Genus Rklbunium Endl. Leaves 4 in the whorls, one- 

 nerved. Fruit baccate. 



G. Xuttallii Gray PI. Wright i, SO. Suffrutescent, tall and climbing, 

 often 3-4 feet high, mostly glabrous except the minutely aculeolate-his- 

 pidulous angles of the stems and margins of the leaves, these also some- 

 times naked: leaves small, oval to linear-oblong, mucronate, mucronu- 

 late, or obtuse: fruit smooth and glabrous. In thickets and open woods, 

 Southern Oregon and California. 



G. Bolanderi Gray Proc Am Acad vii. 350. Herbaceous from a 

 woody root, diffuse, a foot or two high, glabrous, sometimes pubescent: 

 angles of the stem not at all or hardlv scabrous : leaves oblong-linear or 

 lanceolate, rather acute, about 6 lines long, thickish, with margins and 

 midrib either smooth and naked or sparsely hispidulous, those of the 



