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10. Galium aspérrimum A. Gray. Tall Rough Bedstraw. Fig. 5000. 
Galium asperrimum A, Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. II. 4: 60. 1849. 
Galium asperrimum var. asperulum A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 284. 1876. 
s froma ee wir rootstock, erect or eben g and jag af = supported, 3-8 dm. high, 
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the margins and midribs, otherwise glabrous; flowers on rather long aw pod pean mostly 
in terminal, many-flowered, leafy, nde hee area fakacing white, 2.5-4 mm. broad, the lobes 
cuminate; mature fruit 2.5 mm. broad, granulate-scabro minutely hispid ae “Siowse d 
prickles ; pedicels 5-10 mm. long, ciniiieee het slightly nelted just below the fru 
ally in moist thickets, Arid Transition Zone; Kittitas County, Washington, southward oo of ag Cascade 
Mountains to er California, and south to the central Sierra Nevada, Mariposa County, Califo ri ia, and east 
o Idaho, Ut ah, | a western Colorado, western Texas, and Si naloa, Mexico. Type Lecatien: “wet places, 
t nta Fe,’’ New Mexico. Yon ne~Aug. 
11. Galium onan ne Fragrant Bedstraw. Fig. 5001. 
Galium triflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am 
Galium triflorum f, Dhidiees Lependecker, iowa Stat ‘Coll, Journ. Sci. 15: 180. 1941. 
Galium triflorum f. hispidum Leyendec 
Sweet-scented perennials, eat stemmed from a clustered root, the simple weak stems 
1-4 dm. long, occasionally remotely branched, reclining or erect, and rather narrow-leaved in 
4999. Galuim trifidum 5001. Galium triflorum 
5000. Galium asperrimum 
