34 RUBIACEAE 
pidate, setose-ciliate on the margins, pried ise combine and shining; flowers few, in the axils 
of the eb bract- _ leaves; inflorescence narrow, the lower ascending, bearing a bract — 
1-2 flowers on ver ort pedicels ; carols pale, sere 2 mm. broad, glabrous; fruit 2.5-3 m 
wide, jethes thinly sitdue with asc endin ng or appressed hairs. 
Gravelly or rocky ridges, near the borders of the Arid Transition and Canadian Zones; San Bernardino Moun- 
tains, southern California. Type locality: Whitewater Basin, San Bernardino ‘Mouptaine. June—Aug. 
18. Galium andréwsii A. Gray. Phlox-leaved Bedstraw. Fig. 5008. 
Galium andrewsti A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 537. 1865. 
Plan pork and usually densely matted, grayish green, with branching, slender, woody 
roots, te stem uch bra anched ue ag ely leafy from tangled mats or tufts 4-12 cm. high, 
glabrous or oft sia pt scabro the a i hd Leaves persistent in whorls of 4, crowded, 
10 mm. long, linear- ae rigid. ae stueely pungent, grayish green, sometimes spinulose- 
ciliate on the thickened margins ; yrs = flowers borne on the e upper branchlets in small clusters 
or singly, on capillary pedicels as Ss or somewhat surpassing as leaves ; ang flowers 
solitary, axillary on short pedicels; yet about 2.5 mm. wide, greenish white, e lobes acute; 
fruit 2-3 mm. broad, glabro en th on ert spreading or slightly id ai pedicels, bee like when 
ripe and blackish in ited spec 
Dry stony ridges, especially in eye ral yellow pine belts, Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones: 
in the Sierra Nevada foothills and py pda ea Casat Ranges from phe County to San Diego County , and 
adjacent Lower California. Type locality: ‘California, Dr. Andre May-Aug. 
19. Galium ambiguum Wight. Yolla Bolly Bedstraw. Fig. 5009. 
Galium ambiguum Wight, Zoe 5:55. 1900 
Low tufted perennial from a ores woody root, with branching underground stems fro: 
go ude tufted, leafy, oe stems 5-10 cm. long, rarely branched, the whole plant grayish with 
reading hirsute pubescence. ‘Le € 5-12 mm. long, 1-2 mm. ‘wide, linear, acute, ascending, 
mi surpassing the inter mae and ge the stem feces on young growth, firm but no 
at "all rigid, midrib prominent beneath and the margins somewhat inrolled, more or less bristly- 
hirsute on both subtaces, short 4 aiey branchlets often sarah ent at the internodes ; inflorescence 
polygamo-dioecious (?), flow Reel solitary in ns eee of the upper leaves or terminal in small, 
short-peduncled cymes ; sctelit ¢ ish white, ut m. broad, the lobes teat sparsely 
— a a — Poteiss or hcieurhat hairy, blackish i in dried speci 
places, Arid Transition a9 aren Mountains in Jos ink oe ounty, Oregon, 
sie ‘o een “facodng Ccitornia also reas Flt Wi Lake County, California. Type locality: “Yolo Bolo, 
Yolo Co., Cal., T. S. Brandegee, Sep rch— Sept. 
ambiguum var. Caren lees Penta Dudley Herb. 4: fig. 955. Resembling the 
name beeing taxon in habit but often — Lege (ex xcept rol exposed sirtbtione), ‘the a, eg up to 16 cm. long 
the longer stem es branched al leaves 6-10 m long, like the species in shape and texture, dark 
green, shining, glabrous or with a few sanseeced. teh ciliate ‘hairs. Siskiyou Mountains of Curry and Josephine 
Counties, Orasen, bows to Del Norte and Si skiyou Counties and the mountains of Trinity and ot aera Counties, 
California. Type locality: near Gasquet, north side of Middle Fork of Smith River, Del Norte Count 
20. Galium cleméntis Eastw. Santa Lucia Bedstraw. Fig. 5010. 
Galium clementis Eastw. Leaflets West. Bot. 1: 56. 1933. 
Low, tufted or densely . perennial with stems a 3.5-8 cm. long, the stems and 
leaves oak aioe beset with es hirsute hairs. Leaves in whorls of 4, surpassing 
e internodes except on young s g p 
of vg strongly inrolled stemlgit 3-6 m sre 1-2 mm. wide; flowers yellowish, few in the 
upper axils or in small, shor t-peduncled « cymes, the ee sparsely ad ee wilisiot: fruit fleshy, 
sotatrtat hairy, blackish in dried specim 
Rocky outcrops, Arid T ition Zone; it aia Cone Peak and Santa Lee Peak, Santa Lucia Moun- 
tains, Monterey County, California, Type locality : Santa Lucia Peak. March—May 
