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Leaves shining, sparsely hispid or hirsute with curved or vA ap- 
— Fant on the upper surface, margins, and sometimes the 
dvein beneath, the lower it i — or nearly so, loonie 
ellip tic to naar . G. muricatum 
Stems rather stout from a woody cine x and erect, or aa long and dinate. 
tems somewhat acl: long and slender, climbing or seca ng; leaves ovate 
to oblong (linear-oblong in some intergrading er ae 
3. G. nuttallii. 
Stems vik from a woody caudex or rootstock, 1.5—3 ie hig 
Leaves firm and yy whos — glinear- on 6 ovate-obl ong or ovate 
and lar e lower lea wide, marginal scaberulous 
inies when kamen sentttes oe 
Stems awe, leaves enc or nearly SO, the _leaves narrowly linear- 
oblong (young growth g). 
24, 6. bolanderi. 
Stems and — mages re so in var ridum), the leaves ovate- 
oblong or ovate, rower on much- branched plants 
fay i = aienk 
Leaves thin, mostly oval, the large lower leaves i the m 
as appressed; ‘peduncles and aan Bi i. aialune inflorescence 
piilary. . G. sparsifior 
Fruit dry, conspicuously hirsute or villous, the spreading hairs stir as long as or we than 
the body of the fru 
Leaves st to “asters linear, acute. 
low sil rae. mete acuminate be the staminate on copttiary Pedicels: plants poly pane: 
t t 
Flowers “yellowish arose or teh waite, with acute en the staminate pedicels 
arkedly slender; plants dioe 
ae DES mm. Wak ea rey ak spreading hairs; inflorescence panicu- 
ate. 
Plants tall from a woody base, over 3 dm. tall; cismontane California. 
28. G. angustifolium. 
Plants low, about 1-2 dm. tall, tufted; San Gabriel ioepiaies, 
G. gabrielense. 
Fruit 5-8 mm. wide including the abundant, ae. spreading hairs; inflores- 
cence nar i, Ba cymose clusters on short ax iad y branchlets (including 
subsp. puber ne. sbetecudl, 
Leaves lin aggimasaagl ang or octicentae and acute or lig a at the apex, or lanceolate- 
ac 
eos stem- nets closely clothing the older stems, persistent; plants low and tufted; 
inflorescence narrow and congested, the branches scarcely exce i ad the leaves. 
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readin 
Fruit including the hairs 2.5-3 mm. wide; leaves rigid and acerose. 
Int a, Raa sige shrubs, hispidulous- Lt asisdae a seperate si tei 
at eremic 
Lower ae -leaves not approximate, not markedly persistent; Asa ample and 
spr ng. 
. G. stellatu 
Plants ke. erect from a woody base; (eaten open- panicslate 
32. G. matthewsii. 
Fruit praca ge the hairs 5-7 mm. or more wide; leaves thickish or thin but not 
id, sometimes apiculate but not acerose. 
ale branchlets as well as the fruiting —. “hye te or pendent. 
. G. hallii. 
chlets erect or widely spreading, a fruiting pedicels straight 
hat curving in G. hypotrichium). 
Inflorescene broad, many-flowered, the flowering branches yr rg rwendl 
eaves of midstem one-third to one-sixth the len gth of the 
a bran 
: es. 
Plants ie bee more or less pubescent prema with hispidulous 
unzit, 
Plants pate glabrous (hirsute in f. hirsutum). 
34. G. multifiorum. 
ripe magaoveron narrow, few-flowered, the flowering branches erect or as- 
ending; leaves of midstem usually one-half to nearly equaling 
ength of the internodes 
vate to pubescence of hispidulous hairs, 
often scabriduiocs on mmidribe and margins of leaves; fruiting 
cels more or less curved. 35. G. hypotrichium. 
Leaves broadly elliptic to oval; pubescence of dense hirsutulous hairs 
(becoming nearly glabrate in a grterait: ig, fruiting, 
pedicils straight. cer 
Leaves o 
1. Galium murdle All. Wall Bedstraw. Fig. 4991. 
cae murale All. Fl. Ped. 1: 8. pl. 77, fig. 1. 1785. 
minutive annual with slender stems, simple or branching from the base, mostly about 2 cm. 
re) roadly linear to oblanceola i 2-4 mm. long, acute 
high, el: ous. Leaves in whorls o <5. 
nd mucronulate at apex, rather sane 8 ciliate on the mar qos glabrous or sparse ely bristly- 
scabrous on lower surface; flowers usually 2 in each of the upper leaf- whor Is, pedicels tees 
PB se E a es spreading or somewhat r Laat in fruit ; corolla white, les sta 1 mm 
mm. long and barely 1 , the c ie polis seen "ede of yea baie 
becomi 11 establi 
va inode lant Seats ¢ Siar paca ventas: a. Native of southern paid Men hace 
