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1137. Leaves lanceolar, flat. 



Finally tall-shrubby or occasionally arborescent ; leaves 

 hardly rigid ; the secondary venules pennular-spreading ; 

 flowers somewhat crowded in generally elongated spikes. 

 "Bottle-Brush." C. lanceolatus. 



Leaves elongate-linear, channelled. 



Shrub, finally tall ; leaves rigid ; flowers particularly large; 

 fruit-calyx conspicuously contracted at the summit. 



C. linearis. 



1138. Leaves from broadish to rather narrow, flat. 



A shrub, finally tall except in the Alps, occasionally 

 reaching arboreous height ; leaves from broad-linear to 

 narrow-lanceolar ; filaments from much elongated to 

 rather abbreviated, yellowish or less commonly pale- 

 purplish ; anthers yellow. C. salignus. 



Leaves always quite narrow, channelled. 



From tall-shrubby to arborescent ; leaves acieular-linear, 

 pungent ; filaments rather short, yellowish ; anthers 

 yellow. C. pityoides, 



1139. Fruit usually with more than five cells. 



Finally from tall-shrubby to arborescent, chiefly maritime 

 and nearly glabrous; leaves firm, from obovate- to cuneate- 

 elliptical, flat, without lustre ; flowers generally rather 

 large ; calyx-lobes finally deciduous ; fruit almost flat- 

 topped or at the summit slightly convex, scarcely 

 hardening ; cells ten or less, rarely more, sometimes 

 reduced to as few as five or even only four ; fertile seeds 

 compressed, broadish, surrounded by a membranous ap- 

 pendage. "Sand-stay." L. laevigatum. 



Fruit usually with five cells ......... ... 1140 



1140. Leaves much pointed. 



Finally tall-shrubby, nearly glabrous ; leaves from almost 

 acicular- to ovate-lanceolar, shining, marginally in- 

 curved ; flowers sessile; calyx-lobes deciduous; fruit 

 hard, quite convex at the summit ; valves much pro- 

 truding ; seeds all very narrow. 1. scoparium. 



Leaves hardly pointed .. ......... 1141 



