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21. Galium californicum Hook. & Arn. California Bedstraw. Fig. 5011. 
Galium californicum Hook. & Arn. Bot oe 349. 1838. 
Galium mislertieegee A ages nso Nutt. ex & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 20. 1841. 
Galium flaccidum Greene, Pit : 34. 
Galium pal ear MeClitchic, eae Pi 124. 1894. 
Perennial with slender, branching, woody rootstock, the stems erect, forming low tufts 8-15 
cm. high more diffuse and often 30 cm. high, slender, grayish-hirsute throughout. rit es in 
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rather abruptly apiculate-acuminate, _ mm. long, thin, hirsute with sab pron 3 hairs on both’s sur- 
faces or oe ons on the margins ; flowers di eerie solitary and axillar the staminate ones in 
twos or t short axillary pedicels ; "eproili ellowish, about 22.8 elt, broad; fruit small, 
fleshy: whitish- tpariatisceet igicte ies dark when yt glabrous or hairy 
Open woods or shaded rock Upper Sonoran and prensition Zones; a uthw n California through 
the Coast Ranges from Humbo dt sien rag the San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles Co feud M — on = pos Cruz 
Island, Santa SBachats County, and locally in the central Sie Racy "Nevada in hana County; ich | ommon 
per Santa 4 Ps County southward. Type locality : Califor, Collected by Douglas grelisdty in ‘the ‘victaily 
of Monterey. 
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ccasional ie are found having the typical leaf-shape and habit of G. californicum but having the stout 
scabrous hairs on margin and midrib typcal re vel nuttallii instead of the punting -hirsute pubescence of G. cali- 
fornicum, Other specimens trond rocky ridges of San Fra o, San agg a nd) onterey Roeder sa and south- 
ward have the crowded and thickened e gast a var. Pek wie eh, but with the specimens mentioned 
above, the scabrous marginal trichomes of G. tallit. They appear to ‘be transitional between, G, call ovairom and 
G, nuttallti, as has been suggested by Hilend and Howell ae ts Bot. 1935). 
Galium cellornicuss Bd ok migpeltose. Screens) Jepson, Man. a ~ Calif. a “ 1928, (Galium miguelense 
pie oa Bag a zs 887.) Stems m or Scipetienes elongated; leaves crowded, oblong to 2 ta “ovate, 
char in tex biog lek ike or with | rie hairs on the margins: fruit white. San Miguel and Sar R 
ldeaie Satta Barbara. County, California. Type locality: San Miguel Tslan 
5009. Galium ambigu : 5011. Gali ali 
5010. Salis oem $012. Galium murciatum 
