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obtuse. — a. leaves with short triangular teeth. — /5. leaves with 

 large acute teeth. E. B. t. 717. C. intermedium Mert et 

 Koch, 



a. Near Oxford (Sm.) — j8. Waste places, under walls, and about 

 towns and villages. Scarcely indigenous in Scotland. ©. 8, 9. 

 Stem erect, angular. Leaves large, truncate or subcuneate at the 

 base, of a light or subglaucous green, their margins in var. ^. deeply 

 and irregularly toothed. Floicers'm rather small, but remote clusters, 

 on very long straight erect spikes. Seeds minutely rough, coated 

 very tightly with the papillose, fragile utricle, large in comparison 

 with those of the following species, *' almost as big as rape-seed: 



Curtis, 



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4. C. murdle L. {Nettle-leaved G.) ; leaves shining ovate ap- 

 proaching to rhomboid acute sharply toothed entire at the 

 base, spikes divaricately branched cymose leafless, seeds opaque 

 minutely granulated acutely keeled at the edge. JE. B, 1. 17"22. 



Waste places near towns and villages. Not found in Scotland. ©. 

 8, 9. — Branches of the spikes spreading. Flowers rather distant. 



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Smell unpleasant. 



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G.) ; leaves subcordate 



angulate-dentate acuminate, teeth large distant, spikes very 

 much branched subcymose divaricated leafless, seeds opaque 

 dotted, their edge obtuse and not keeled. B.B. 1. 1919. 



Waste places and in cultivated fields, not common ; about London, 

 Colchester, Dedham, Ely, and Edinburgh. ©. 8. — ^S'^ems slender. 

 Leaves large, with very prominent teeth or angles. Spikes similar to 

 the last, but the branches are more remote and spreading, and the 

 margin of the seed is diiferent. 



6. C. album L. (while G,) ; leaves ovate inclining to rhom- 

 boid sinuate-toothed entire at the base, upper ones oblong 

 perfectly entire, spikes branched somewhat leafy, seeds smooth 

 or very minutely dotted, shining bluntly keeled at the edge. 

 a. leaves mealy, axillary spikes dense. JS. B.X. 1723.— f3. leaves 

 green more entire, spikes elono^ated more branched. 

 viride L. 



Sm. C. 



Waste places, dunghills, &c., common. 



©• 7—9. 



Leaves 



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covered with a whitish and mealy substance, varying in their width, 



and in the erosion, or blunt toothing, of the upper half of their 



margins. When they are green and nearly entire it is the C. 

 vtride L. 



7. C. ficifulium Sm. {Fig-leaved G.) ; leaves long stalked 



aeltoid cuneate at tlie base toothed and sinuate at the margin 



thin, lower ones hastate 3-lobed lobes ascending, middle ones 



elongated,_ upper ones oblong, uppermost linear quite entire, 



seeds shmmg dotted their edge obtuse and not keeled. E. B. 

 t. 1724. 



