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ing forwards, panicle much branched trichotomous, stem gla- 

 brous flaccid. E.B.t. 1972. 

 Hab. Fish-wives Causeway, near Portobcllo, Mavgh. Fl. July. 1/ . 

 Lar2;er than G. itUginosum, with which it agrees in habit and shape 



of the leaves. Fruit smooth. 

 8. G.d'iffusuvi {spreading smooth-stalked Bed-slraw)/' \ee.ves 

 ' about 8 in a whorl linear aristate glabrous their margins ob- 

 soletelv serrated" (rough with prickles pointing forwards), 

 " panicle corymbose, stems diffuse very much branched." 

 D. Don. MSS. med. 

 HAii. Near Kinnaird, Angus-shire, G. Don. Fl. — . 11 .' 

 'Stemii manv, diffuse, very much branched, from a span to a foot 

 high, angular, glabrous, shining, swelling at the joints. Leaves 

 8 in a whorl, linear, plane, glabrous, aristate at the point, with the 

 ' margin obsoletely serrulate. BrancJus and hranchlets opposite, 

 subdecussate, striated. Flmcers corymbose, white. Fruit glabrous. 

 Very like G. austriacum of Jacq., but differing in the above cha- 

 racter?' D.oh'.s MfiS. 

 9. G. verrucosum [luarty-Jndted Bad'Straiv), leaves 6 in a 

 " wliorl lanceolate their margins rough with prickles pointing 

 forwards, peduncles axillary 3-flowered, fruit warted droop- 

 ing. G. Don's Fuse. 5, 103 (G. Tricome). E. B. t. 2173. 

 Hab. Corn-fields Carse of Cowrie, and near Forfar, G. Don. Fl. 



July. 0. 

 Prickles of the stem detlexed. The two lateral Jlowers on each pe- 

 duncle sterile, falling away and leaving their pedicels, one on each 

 side the large warted fruit, which together with the marginal 

 prickles of the leaves pointing forwards essentially distinguish this 

 from the English income. 



10. G. spurhim {smootk-fr idled Corn Bed-straw)^ leaves 6 — 8 

 in a whorl their margins as well as the stem rough with reflex- 

 ed prickles, peduncles axillary many-flowered, fruit smooth 

 spreading. £. ii. ^. 1871. 



Hab. Corn-iields near Forfer, rare, G. Dow. H.July, ©. 



Habit of the preceding. Leaves hispid on the upper surface. Pe- 

 duncles much longer than the leaves, bearing sever'al flowers. 

 Partial flower-stalks not bent back with the fruit, whi'ch is smooth. 



11. G. pusillum {least Bed-straw)^ " leaves about 8 in a whorl 

 linear-lanceolate mucronate entire snbpubescent, peduncles 

 dichotoraous, fruit very smooth" (Sm.), E. B. t. 74. 



Hab. Habbies How, in the Pentland hills, and lower rocks of Clova, 

 An'nis-shire, G. Don. Strathblane hills N. of Glasgow, D. Don. 

 - . F/.'' July,. Aug. %. _ _ 



I confess myself to be but imperfectly acquainted with this species, 

 and have seen no Scotch specimens. Mine under this name, frorii 

 -Ireland, are totally free from pubescence, and have the leaves very 

 closely imbricated all the way up, in which particular it does not 



