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RUBIACEAE. 
Leaves obovate to broadly oblong-obovate, somewhat fleshy. 
Petals almost i mm. long; pedicels and generally also stem glabrous. 
6. G. Brandegei. 
Petals about 0.5 mm. long; pedicels and stem more or less scabrous. 
7. G. subbffiorum. 
Leaves linear-oblong or linear-oblanceolate. 8. G. triddum. 
Leaves cuspidate-pointed. 
Stem retrorse-bristly; pedicels scarcely exceeding the bracts. 
9. G. davidorum. 
Stem glabrous or sparingly hirsute; pedicels much exceeding the small bract. 
10. G. tridorum. 
Flowers in ours dioecious ; fruit with long hairs, not uncinate ; perennials. 
11. G. coloradense. 
1. Galium Aparine L. In shady places from N. B. and Alaska to Fla. and 
Calif.; also in Europe and Asia.—Alt. 4000-6000 ft.—Horsetooth Gulch; Rist 
Canon; Ft. Collins; foot-hills, Larimer Co. 
2. Galium Vaillantii DC. (G. Aparine Vaillantii Koch.) Among bushes 
and in shady places from Mont, and B. C. to Mex.—Alt. 5000-8000 ft.— 
Spring Canon; Rist Canon; butte, 5 miles southwest of La Veta. 
3. Galium proliferum A. Gray. On stony hills from Colo, to Tex. and 
N. M.; also Mex.—Locality not given. 
4. Galium bifolium S. Wats. In wet places in the mountains from Mont, 
and Wash, to Colo, and 'Calif. — Alt. about 7500 ft. —Honnold; Steamboat 
Springs. 
5. Galium boreale L. On rocky banks and hillsides, especially among 
bushes, from Que. and Alaska to N. J., Mo., Colo, and Calif.—Alt. 4000- 
10,000 ft.—Rist Canon; foot-hills, Larimer Co.; Hotchkiss ; Baxter’s ranch; 
Barnes’ Camp; Table Rock; Ft. Collins; Stove Prairie Hill; gulch west of 
Pennock’s; Pike’s Peak; west of Ouray; Dillon; Veta Pass; Parlin; Gun¬ 
nison ; Minnehaha; Pagosa Springs; Grayback mining camps and Placer 
Gulch; Narrows; Andrews’ Shetland ranch; Four-mile Hill, Routt Co.; Man- 
cos; Golden; Clear Creek Canon; North Cheyenne Canon; Bear Creek Canon; 
Cumbres; Moon’s ranch; Glenwood Springs; between Sunshine and Ward; 
Fish Creek Falls. 
6. Galium Brandegei A. Gray. In moist ground from Wyo. to N. M. and 
Calif.—Alt. 6000-10,000 ft. — Columbine; twelve miles below Grand Lake; 
Steamboat Springs; Chambers’ Lake. 
7. Galium subbiflorum (Wieg.) Rydb. (G. triddum subbidorum Wieg.) 
In cold bogs and wet places from Minn, and Ida. to Colo, and Calif. — Alt. 
8000-10,000 ft.—Beaver Creek; Empire. 
8. Galium trifidum L. In swamps and wet meadows from Newf. and Ida. 
to Colo, and Utah.—Alt. up to 8000 ft.—Parlin; Beaver Creek. 
9. Galium flaviflorum Heller. In canons of Colo, and N. M. — Alt. 7500- 
8500 ft.—Box Canon, west of Ouray. 
10. Galium triflorum Michx. In open woods from Newf. and Alaska to Ala. 
and Calif.—Alt. 6000-9000 ft.—Boulder Canon; Red Mountain road, south of 
Ouray; Ruxton Brook; headwaters of Pass Creek; near Pagosa Peak; Col¬ 
umbine; vicinity of Pine Grove; Bosworth’s ranch; Four-mile Hill; Ouray. 
11. Galium coloradense Wright. ( G . Mathewsii A. Gray, in part) On 
arid grounds in southern Colo.—Alt. 7000-8000 ft. —Black Canon; Mesa 
Verde; Mancos; Glenwood Springs. 
