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cymes 3-flowered, fr. granular on reflexed peduncles. E. B. 

 1(341. St. procumbent, spreading*. Fl. small, all 3 appearing 

 perfect, the middle one usually alone fertile, cream-coloured. 

 Fr. large, a double globe, covered with small granulations. 

 Dry calcareous fields. A. VI. IX. E. 



4. G. Aparine (L.) ; 1. 68 in a whorl linear-lanceolate with 

 marginal backward prickles, st. rough with deflexed prickles, 

 cymes few- (about 3-) flowered, fruitstalks divaricate straight, 

 fruit covered with short hooked bristles. E. B. 816. St. strag- 

 gling amongst bushe*. 3 4 feet long. The marginal prickles 

 near the extremity of the 1. point forwards, the rest backwards. 

 Fl. small, pale. Fed., or rather flowering branches, with several 

 1. at the primary divisions. Fr. large. Common. A. VI. 

 VIII. Goose-grass. Cleavers. E. S. I. 



5. G. spiirium (L.) , 1. 6 8 in a whorl linear-lanceolate with 

 marginal backward prickles, st. rough with deflexed prickles, 

 cymes with 3 flowers, fruitstalks divaricate straight. Closely 

 resembling the preceding ; distinguished by its more numerous 

 green flowers, floral leaves solitary ("or in pairs "), fruit of 

 about half the size. a ; fr. smooth. E. B. 1871. /3. G. Vail- 

 lantii (DC.) ; fr. hispid. E. B. S. 2943. Fields, a. Forfar ; 0. 

 Saflron Walden and Chesterford, Essex. Oxon. Dorset. 

 Warwicksh. A. VII. E. S. 



6. G. ang'licum (Huds.) ; I. about 6 in a whorl linear-lanceolate 

 bristle-pointed with marginal forward prickles, st. rough with 

 deflexed prickle^ cymes small forked with divaricate bifid 

 branches. E. B. 384. St. 68 in. high, spreading, slender, 

 brittle. L. usually 6 in a whorl, the lowermost sometimes in 

 fours. Branches of the small panicles olten spreading nearly at 

 right angles with their stalk. Fr. granular, nearly black. 

 Old walls and dry sandy places. A. VI. VII. E. 



C. Leaves 1-veined. Root perennial. Fl. in terminal panicles, 

 white (except in G. verum). 



* Fruit not granular. No downward prickles on the stem. 



7. G. erectum (Huds.) ; /. about 8 in a luJiorl lanceolate mucTO- 

 nate the margins rough with forward prickles, midrib slender, 

 branches of the pyramidal panicle all ascending, fruitstalks diva- 

 ricate, fr. oval smooth, pet. taper-pointed. E. B. 2067. St. 

 glabrous or hairy, erect, not much branched. L. lanceolate, 

 scarcely at all obovate, those of the main st. erect, patent; 

 veins not translucent ; margins with 2 rows of prickles pointing 



