42 CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
36. Galium parishii Hilend & Howell. Parish’s Bedstraw. Fig. 5026. 
Galium multiforum parvifolium grin. Zoe 5: 
Galium parvifolium Jepson, Man. FI. Pl. Calif. 963. 1925, aus lige 1800. 
Galium parishii Hilend & Howell, Sere West. Bot. 1: 136. 
Perennial, with woody branching rootstocks, oo stems s slender, or pat many, tufted or matted, 
5-20 cm. m. high, ascendi sid or fie rye t decumbent at base, simple with asc anid branchlets, 
light gray-green, scabrous on the angles and m et rou nt sh- baentcne betw Leaves in 
whorls of 4, often n approximate near the base ide clothing the stems, tardily dscldoce. and smaller 
than the more distant ones on the upper — ore acute, often broadly so, abruptly mucronate 
t 4 mm e, a ides ; i 
a , about Z— m. 
Sabian narrow and elongate, in small pe ha feces i. the leaf-axils on upper part of stems, the 
monoecious ; corolla 1-2 mm. wide, reddish, rarely greenish, sparsely puberulent exteriorly ; 
badly of fruit about 1 m m. broad, densely covered with spreading hairs about 1.5 mm. cote 
slopes and flats, abe Transition and Canadian Zones; es Antonio, San Bernardino, and San Jacinto 
Mountains, southern California, east to the New York Moutains, Califo ornia, — the Charleston MMacuthien; south- 
ern Nevada. Type locality: Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mountains. July—A 
37. Galium grayanum Ehrendorfer. Gray’s Bedstraw. Fig. 5027. 
Galium grayanum Ehrendorfer, Contr. Pankey Herb. 5: 15. 1956. 
arising 2 ‘from a oody ck, stems greenish, inconspicuous sine and mt thed as Be gee 
leav e, < ett se rt, even puberulence. Lea m g, m. wide, a little 
: ess than sb “half the length = ‘the srt a to nearly evaling = 3 nerved, ‘thickish wok dark 
green, ovate to n Psion seem obtuse to roun ea : ; infloresc — narro wr 
es ae floweri ing bra comin ng, leafy, padiaits little od sae the leaves, the pall rs 
ie congested, the Editing peiticels ane flowers mm. broad, widtish, stten tinged with 
urple; lise including the copious white hairs 7-9 mm. broad. 
Rocky slopes, Canadian and he atin in the Coast Ranges of California from Siskiyou and Trinity 
Counties Me to Lake County and to the east from Butte County to Placer County. Type locality: Jonesville, 
Butte cai July—Aug 
Galium grayanum “subsp, Siaveenerps Ehrendorfer, Conte. Duds ey sabe 5: 15. 1956. Like G. grayanum 
subsp. papier in habit and shape of leaves but often up to 2.5 dm. in height; nearly glabrous or sparsely 
pubescent with somewhat longer hairs (hispidulous hairs aa present) ns nearly glabrous; inflorescence as in 
the preceding but fruiting pedicels often 5 mm. or more long and usually somewhat i corres downward. nag 
a er 
Lake County, Oregon; also Modoc vagy nd California, where intergrading forms, with °G. multifiorum and C. wat- 
e found. T ountains, Siskiyou County, California. 
38. Galium watsonii (A. Gray) Heller. Watson’s Galium. Fig. 5028. 
ltifl var. watsoni A, Gray, sedate as a Amer. 12: 40. 1884, 
Galium watioals Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 2 898. 
Galium watsonii f. scabridum Ehrendorfer, ree Seite Herb. 5: 16. 1956. 
Herbaceous, somewhat cespitose perennial (sometimes woody at base), with several erect 
— usually 1-2.5 dm. high from a woody rootstock, the eae pie ssid throughout (long 
cabro airs in f. scabridum) and ssuklty brownish green in dried specimens. Le in whorls 
of 4, ne thin, 5-15 mm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, linear-oblong or linear-oblanceolate, the midvein 
prominent ; branches of the inflorescence usually not much surpassing the leaves, erect or ascend- 
ing, sone mm. wide, greenish yellow; fruit densely fice 3 with long spreading hairs, 
6-8 mm. nee 
- Transition and Canadian Zones; east of the Cascade Mountains Ho Chelan County, Wash- 
Gal Secu subsp. cobhrulans Ehrendorfer, Contr. Dudley Herb. s: 4 1956. (Galium multiforum 
subsp, vaberichen Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 11: 527. 1906; G. sehen? var. puberulum St. John, North- 
west Sci. 23: 90. 1928.) Very ary fos G. watsontt subsp. watsonii in “E30 it, but the plants more or less densely 
perciows throughout. Dry slopes erpentine, ‘Arid Transition and nadan patos common in Chelan and 
Kittitas Counties, Washington. Type | locality: Ellensburg, Kittitas Counts, 
Family 144. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 
side sik dieing FAMILY. 
ovary, its limb 3—5-toothed or 3-5-lobed. Corolla 5-lobed, someties 2-lipped. Sta- 
mens 5 or rarely 4, inserted on the corolla-tube and alternate with the lobes; anthers 
versatile, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary inferior, t eeclieds style ‘slender ; 
stigma capitate or 2-5-lobed ; ovules 1 to several in each cavity. Fruit a berry, drupe, 
or capsule. 
