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branches numerous, forming low tufts or mats 5-10 cm. high, very leafy, the internodes mostly 
pro than the leav es, slender, gee te puberulent, with very short divergent hairs. Leaves 
3-6(10- mm. long, 2-4 mm. bro ad, ather thin, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, l-nerved, green 
but with a short, s he hu ge ‘paber ulence, ‘markedly so on the margins; inflorescence nar- 
/ in 
ong, cu 
yellow, sometimes reddi sh, "aE lobes about 1.5 mm. long; fruit densely covered with whitish or 
very faint ly tawny bristles longer than sie} body 
Rocky alpine summits, Hudsonian and Arc fps Zones; central Sierra g's from the type wager d 
mne County California, south to pay Seats ‘oles it ineererees with G, hypotrichium subsp. 
d to the White Mountains of. perce and Nevada and to the Wassu k and Toyabe Bre 
of central Nevada where intergrades are found with other s subspecies of the hypotrichium ner yeep Type locality: 
‘Sonora Pass, in the Sierra Revadks, alt. 8000 to 3000 feet in dry and peg places.”” July—A 
Bk rad taxon he hypotrichium (including all of the subspecies) is one of the more variable enits of the G. muiti- 
flor mplex. It is probably most closely related to G. munzii from which it differs in the narrower inflorescence 
rie the § frititing widiecs which. re short, tend. p be nodding. Its distribution eek a es a somewhat interme- 
ae postion between that of G. mu ltiflorum a G. munzii though it is found at higher elevations than either 
eae hypotrichium subsp. subalpinum (Hilend & Howell) Ehrendorfer, Contr. Dudley Herb. 
1956. (Galinm munzit var. subalpinum Hilend & Howell, Leaflets West. Bot. 1: 136. 1934.) abit ays in ie 
po- 
precedi ing but differing hi the ovate leaves; the pubescence of stems and leaves a oi ag longer than that y 
trichium corse foe! pride ane At high clevations in ree Sierra Nevada, Califor from the s Bathern border of 
Mon ia ag unty e County; also the White Mountains in Nevada. ee locality: Sawmill Canyon, 
Inyo 
Galium hypotrichium subsp. tomentéllum Ehrendorfer, Contr. Dudley H 956. Stems about 
h, more tufted than subsp. bec eaeenaag or subsp. subalpinum, roy ea belly Be white-tomentulose; 
i in i type locality, Telescope Peak, Pana- 
rom Boundary Peak in the White 
tions of subsp. subaiolacen 
5023 
5023. Galium 
5021. Galium stellatum munzii 
5024. Galium multiflorum 
5022. Galum matthewsii 
