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leafless dense spikes, seed shining slightly rough (very small), st. 

 diffuse. E. B. 1034. St. 75. 14. L. stalked. Whole herbage 

 covered with a greasy pulverulent fetid substance. Waste 

 places by road-sides. A. VIII. IX. 



2. C. polyspermum (L.) ; I. ovate-elliptical, fl. in axillary leaf- 

 less cymose racemes, seeds shining minutely punctulate blunt at 

 the edge. E. B. 1480 and 1481. Leight. t. 5. St. 75. 12 and 13. 

 Racemes more or less cymose or spicate. St. erect or pro- 

 cumbent. L. acute or obtuse. C. acutifolium and C. polysper- 

 mum are undistinguishable. Damp waste places. A. VIII. IX. 



ft Leaves toothed angled or lobed. 



3. C. urbicum (L.); I. triangular sinuate-dentate or nearly 

 entire their base contracted into the petiole, spikes erect nearly 

 leafless compound, seeds very minutely rough blunt at the edge. 

 L. with short triangular teeth. Spikes approaching the stem. 

 Seed almost as large as Rape-seed. /3. C. intermedium (M. and 

 K.) ; 1. with large acute teeth. E. B. 717. Near Oxford. Sm. 

 Fl.Br. 0. Waste places. A. VIII. 



4. C. album (L.); 1. rhomboid-ovate sinuate-dentate entire 

 below, upper ones lanceolate nearly entire, fl. in compound 

 branched nearly leafless racemes, seeds smooth and shining blunt 

 but keeled at the edge. E. B. 1723. St. 75. 6. Axillary racemes 

 spicate dense, 1. mealy. (3. C. viride (L.) ; racemes cymose, 1. 

 green often quite entire. St.. 1 5. 7- Waste places. A. VII. 

 VIII. 



5. C. jicifolium (Sm.) ; l.unequally 3-lobedfrom a wedgeshaped 

 base, lobes ascending, middle lobe elongate oblong-lanceolate den- 

 tate obtuse, upper 1. linear-lanceolate entire, fl. in erect nearly 

 leafless cymose racemes, seeds excavate-punctate shining blunt 

 and not keeled at the edge. E. B. 1724. St. 75. 10. Mealy. 

 L. blunt ; middle lobe nearly equally broad throughout. Seeds 

 smaller than in C. album. Waste ground, rare. A. VIII. IX. 



6. C. murale (L.) ; I. rhomboid-ovate unequally andsharply 

 toothed entire below, fl. in divaricately-branched leafless cymes, 

 seeds elevate-punctate opaque acute and keeled at the edge. E. B. 

 1722. St. 75. 5. Waste ground near towns and villages. A. 

 VIII. 



7. C. hybridum (L.); I. subcordate angulate-dentate acuminate, 

 teeth large distant, fl. in aggregated panicled leafless cymes, seeds 

 excavate-punctate opaque blunt and not keeled at the edge, 

 E. B. 1919. St. 75. 2. Seeds very large. L. with 24 large 

 teeth on each side. Waste places, rare. A. VIII. 



