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Sm. _. B. 789. R. v. 220. C. glomeratum (Thuill.) ed. viii. 

 St. erect, glandular-hairy. Fl. in close cymes, longer than 

 their stalks. /3. C. apetalum (Duin.); pet. 0, whole plant 

 usually much more slender. Fields and banks. A. IV. IX. 



E. S. I. 



2. C. trundle (Link) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate, sep. oblong-ovate 

 bluntish and as well as the bracts membranous at their margins 

 and glabrous tips, caps, cylindrical ascending twice as long as 

 the calyx, fruitstalks at least as long as the calyx. R. v. 229. 

 C. viscosum Sm. E. B. 790. C. vufyatum Fries. St. downy, 

 mostly procumbent, some short and barren. Fl. larger than 

 those of the last, in small terminal cymes the branches of which 

 are often lengthened as the fr. ripens. /3. C. holosteoides 

 (Fries) ; glabrous sides of st. alternately downy, 1. dark smooth 

 shining, fr. much larger. St. 63. 9. In 'fields, and on mountains 

 (var. alpinum M. & K.) with larger flowers ; on seashores 

 pentandrous and annual [var. pentandrnm Sy.]. An extended 

 form from Shetland (C. longirostre Wich.) has 1. 1J in. or more 

 long and caps, nearly f in. B. or P. IV. IX. E. S. I ; 



ft Caps, nearly straight. 



3. C. semidecan'drum (L.) ; 1. broadly ovate, sep. lanceolate 

 broadly membranous at their margins and tips, bract* with their 

 upper half membranous, caps, cylindrical slightly inflated longer 

 than the calyx, fruitstalks longer than the calyx at first rejlexed 

 afterwards erect. E. B. 1630. R. v. 228. St. erect or decum- 

 bent, downy, sometimes viscid. Pet. with simple veins, not di- 

 stinctly notched. Lower 1. with long linear hafts. Known by 

 its half-membranous bracts. Common in dry places. A. IV. V. 



E. S. I. 



4. C. pumilum (Curt. !) ; I. spathulate, upper I. oblong, sep. 

 lanceolate acute with their tips and margins narrowly membra- 

 nous, uppermost bracts with an extremely narrow membranous 

 margin, caps, slightly curved upwards longer than the calyx, 

 fruitstalks short curved at the top declining from their base, ulti- 

 mately erect. Curt. ii. 92. C. glutinosum P>., FL Dan. 2537. 

 Viscid. St. branched at the root, afterwards nearly simple. 

 Pet. ivith branched veins, notched. Lower 1. with long linear 

 hafts. Fl. in terminal forked cymes. Dry banks in the South. 

 A. IV. V. E. 



5. C. tetran'drum (Curt.) ; 1. oval or oblong, sep. lanceolate 

 acute, their tips and margins narrowly membranous, bracts 

 wholly herbaceous, caps, a little exceeding the cal. straight, 



