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wers dioecious, the staminate a a kL the cymules few-flowered on short 
ia the pistillate solitary or in pairs in.the upper leaf- aes chan — or pee sh 
fruit large, fleshy, pube a ma becom st ois glabrat Se in dried s 
Rocky ridges and loose talus slopes, Arid nei ene in rea baehing on re stern slopes of the Sie 
Nevada from Butte ene ~ Tu sre = County and in the Inner Coast Range in eastern  eaheldt Lake, and Napa 
Counties; also from so gee and Soa sephine Coomics, Oregon. Type locality: “Yosemite Valley and 
adjacent mountains.’ 
Cale, papers: G. habeas: oar. scone A. me ay, aos — scabridum Wight (which is here considered to be 
a synony scabridum), G. bolanderi and its . margaricoccum A. Gray all have — Valley 
or the ‘bai a isaeainice adjacent to it as eee oe "ocality: Galinm A oe pe Wight is also on in the 
same region. With the occurrence of so many entities from this region, it is not surprising that cariata are found 
which a ifficult to i isely to their Super places 
Galium pubens var. scabridum A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 285. 1876. (Galium subscabridum Wight, Zoe 5: 56. 
ee or = ead a MR sepertnac the spreading hirsutulous pubescence sparse or com pletely lacking; wy aarains. 
ribs, always scabrous; fruit glabrous. Growing with the species from the type locality in 
goth a ploy a the Teh Mountains (Dudley, 377). 
alium pubens var. grande (McClatchie) Jepson, Man. Fl. Pl. Calif. 961. 1925. (Galium grande McClatchie, 
Erythea 2: 124. 1894.) Plants rather strict, 0.5-2 m. high with Fe change branches above, densely cinereous- 
pubescent; leaves mostly less than 10 mm. long, revolute on the margins, narrowly ovate; mature fruit sparsely 
puberulent, the ge cel shorter than the width of the ature berry. Diner Sonoran and Transition cng 6 Ned ni 
1 
fora Intergrading with the species and with var. scabridum at its northern limit. Type locality: Mewsk Wilson, 
Los Angeles Cou 
26. Galium sparsiflorum Wight. Sequoia Bedstraw. Fig. 5016. 
Galium sparsiforum Wight, Zoe 5:55. 1900. 
Perennial from branching elongated rootstocks, stems several, erect and branchi ng, above, 
10-30 cm. high, shining, glabrous or thinly and minutely hispidulous. Leaves in whorls of 4. 
5013. Galium nuttallii 5015. Galium pubens 
5014. Galium bolanderi 5016. Galium sparsiflorum 
