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10. Galium coloradoense W. F. Wight, Zoe 5: 54. 1900. 



Carrizo Mountains, Apache County (Standley 7353) . Southwestern 

 Colorado, southeastern Utah, and northeastern Arizona. 



Standley's specimen has hispidulous stems and leaf margins. 



11. Galium aparine L., Sp. PL 108. 1753. 



Navajo County to northern Mohave County, south to Pima County, 

 2,500 to 6,000 feet, mostly along streams, early spring. Widely 

 distributed in the United States, presumably naturalized from Europe. 



Goosegrass bedstraw. A small-fruited form, var. vaillantii (DC.) 

 Koch (G. vaillantii DC), has been reported as occurring in Arizona. 



12. Galium triflorum Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 80. 1803. 



White Mountains, Apache County (Griffiths 5342), Baker Butte 

 and Upper Oak Creek, Coconino County (Tourney 166a, Fulton 7330), 

 6,000 to 8,000 feet, moist shady places, July to September. Canada 

 and Alaska to Alabama, Arizona, and California. 



Sweet-scented bedstraw. The herbage is very fragrant in drying. 



13. Galium boreale L., Sp. PL 108. 1753. 



Lukachukai Pass, Apache County (Eastwood and Howell 6789), 

 Lakeside, Navajo County (Thornber 8901), 6,000 to 7,000 feet, 

 July to August. Canada to Pennsylvania, Texas, eastern Arizona, 

 and California; Eurasia. 



Northern bedstraw. 



14. Galium proliferum A. Gray, PL Wright. 2: 67. 1853 

 Greenlee, Pinal, Maricopa, and Pima Counties, 2,000 to 4,000 feet, 



canyons and rocky slopes, March to May. Western Texas to south- 

 ern Utah, Arizona, and northern Mexico. 



15. Galium pilosum Ait., Hort. Kew. 1: 145. 1789. 



Pinaleno Mountains, Graham County, about 7,000 feet (Peebles et 

 al. 4504), rich soil in shade, growing with Circaea, July. Massachu- 

 setts to Indiana, south to Florida and central Texas, and in south- 

 eastern Arizona. 



The Arizona station is far to the west of the main area occupied 

 by this species. 



117. CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Honeysuckle family 



Plants almost entirely herbaceous, or shrubby, or arborescent; 

 leaves opposite, simple or compound; flowers perfect, regular or ir- 

 regular; calyx with the tube wholly adnate to the ovary, the limb 

 represented by 3 to 5 teeth or lobes; corolla funnelform or rotate; 

 stamens 4 or 5, attached separately to the corolla; fruit berrylike, 

 drupelike, or achenelike. 



This family includes numerous plants that are cultivated as orna- 

 mentals, notably the bush honeysuckles and climbing honeysuckles 

 (Lonicera spp.). 



Key to the genera 



1. Leaves pinnately compound; flowers small, very numerous; corolla rotate or 



saucer-shaped 1. Sambucus. 



1. Leaves sample; flowers relatively large, not very numerous; corolla tubular to 

 f unnelf orm-campanulate (2) . 

 2. Plant low, only slightly woody, with prostrate creeping stems; flowers in 

 pairs on an elongate, slender, erect peduncle 3. Linnaea. 



