Galium timeroyi, Jordan

101. G. timeroyi Jordan View in CoL , Obs. Pl. Crit. 3: 138 (1846)

( G. jordanii Loret & Barrandon ).

Plant greenish when dry; stock with short, scarcely rooting stolons. Stems (7-)15-30(-40) cm, bushy, rather slender, almost always glabrous and smooth, reddish at the base; middle internodes 2-3(-4) times as long as the leaves. Leaves (5—)7—10(—15) x (0-5-)0-7-0-9(-l-7) mm, in whorls of (8—)9—10(— 12), linear to narrowly lanceolate, mostly 9-11 times as long as wide, more or less coriaceous; upper surface and margin antrorsely scabrid or glabrescent; hyaline apex shorter than leaf-width. Inflorescence ovoid-elongate to narrowly pyramidal, many-flowered; pedicels 0-8-1 mm, more or less divaricate after flowering. Corolla l-5-2(-2-4) mm in diameter; lobes acute. Fruit 1-1-3 mm, brownish. 2л = 22. Dry places', somewhat calcicele. • S., C. & E. France. Ga.