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dichotomous ; pedicels 2-flowered ; fruit with uncinate bris- 

 tles. Pursh Fl.],^, 103. R o em, ^ S c hul t, lU. ^. 



248. 



Hab. In meadows and on the edges of woods ; frequent. New- 

 England to Virginia. June — August. Pursh. 



This species I have never seen, unless I have mistaken it for 

 a variety of G. Afiarine^ from which, by the description, it ap- 

 pears to diifer but little. 



7. G. micranthum Ph. : stem much branched, divaricate,- 

 retrorsely aculeate ; leaves short, lanceolate, mucronate, 

 smooth ; margin and keel aculeate ; flowering branches diva- 

 ricate; pedicels 2-flowered. Pwr s A jT/. I. p. 103. Roem. 

 ^ Schult. III. p. 248. 



Root perennial. Floivera white, very numerous and exceedingly 

 small. It produces generally but one seed. Ph. 



Hab. In monntain swamps ; Canada to New-York. July. Re- 

 sembles G. uliginosum very much. Put s h. With this spe- 

 cies I am unacquainted. 



8. G. iriflorum Mich.: stem procumbent, smoolhishj 

 leaves in fives and sixes, obovate-lanceolate, mucronate, 

 smooth, scarcely ciliate on the margin 5 floriferous branches 

 elongated, 3-flowcred at the extremity ; flowers pedicellate j 

 fruit small, hispid. Mich. Fl. 1. p. 80. Pursh Fl. I. 

 p. 104. Elliott Sk. \. Tp. \97. R em. ^ S chulU 

 III. p. 256. Willd h.Berol. I. t. 66. G. cuspidatum 

 Muhl.Cat.^.ld.kHerb. Elliott Ic. 



Hoot perennial. Stem weak, generally procumbent, 3 — 5 feet 

 long, with few short branches ; angles a little aculeate. Leaves 

 membranaceous, attenuated at the base, with a sharp abrupt 

 point ; smooth, except on the margin and keel, which are a little 

 roughened by minute prickles. Flowering branches axillary 

 and terminal, trichotomous. Corolla white ; segments semi- 

 ovate, acuminate. Fruit clothed vVith hooked bristles. 



Hab. In moist shady thickets ; not rare. July — August. Nearly 

 allied to G. suaveolena of IV a hlenber g. 



9. G. pilosnm A it.: stem nearly simple, elongated, as- 

 scending, with remote joints, hispid ; leaves in fours, oval, 

 mucronate, very hairy on every part, nerveless ; flowering 

 branches elongated, nearly simple, 3-flowered at the extre- 

 mity ; fruit hairy. A it. Kew. ed. 1. I. p. 45. Willd* 

 %c. I. p. 599. P Mrs A F/. I. p. 104. Elliott Sk.L 

 p. 196. Poem. & Sc/tw^f. III. p. 260. 



Root perennial. Stem about a foot high, acutely quadrangular, 

 sparingly branched, almost hispidly pilose ; branches rather 

 Short, expanding. Leaves subovate or oval, obtuse, about an inch. 



