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on each side. Fertile anth. 10. Segments of the upper leaves 

 more acute. St. spreading, 1 — 3 feet high, clothed with dense 

 short down and long hairs intermixed. — Roadsides and pastures. 

 P. VI. VII. 



*** Root fusiform annual, ped. 2-flowered. 



7. G. pusillum (L.) ; pedicels deflexed after flowering, pet. 

 notched a little exceeding the mucronate sepals, claws slightly 

 ciliated, carp, smooth with adpressed hairs, seeds smooth, 1. reni- 

 form palmate with 5 — 7 trifid lobes, st. diffuse downy. — E. B. 

 385. il. V. 190. Q. rotundifolium ¥xi&s. — St. usually prostrate, 

 clothed only with short down. Fl. small, bluish-purple. Claws 

 of the pet. only slightly ciliated. Fertile anth. 6. Ped. shorter 

 than the leaves. — Waste places. A. VI. — IX. 



8. G. dissectum (L.) ; pet. bifid about equalling the awned 

 sepals, claws slightly ciliated, carp, smooth with erect hairs, seeds 

 reticulated, 1. in 5 — 7 deep laciniated segments with linear lobes, 

 St. difi'use hairy.— E. B. 763. R. v. 189.— Fl. small, bluish-pur- 

 ple. L. divided almost to the base, longer than the peduncles. — 

 Waste places. A. VI.— VIII. 



9. G. columbinum (L.) ; pet. obovate emarginate with a short 

 obtuse tooth in the notch about equalhng the awned sepals, 

 claws ciliated, carp, smooth with a few minute scattered hairs, 

 seeds reticulated, 1. in 5 — 7 deep laciniated segments, st. diffuse 

 with adpressed hairs. — E. B. 269. JfJ. v. 198. — Fl. small, rose- 

 coloured. L. divided almost to their base. Peduncles longer 

 than the leaves, pedicels very long. — On gravelly and limestone 

 soils. A. VI. VII. 



10. G. rotundifolium (L.) ; pet. spathulate entire obtuse rather 

 longer than the shortly awned sepals, claws glabrous, carp, smooth 

 with spreading hairs, seeds reticulated, 1. reniform in 5 — 7 broadly 

 wedge-shaped ineise-crenate segments, st. diffuse pubescent. — 

 E. B. 167. R. V. 190. G. viscidum Ehrh.— Fl. small, flesh-co- 

 loured. Peduncles shorter than the leaves. — Old walls and 

 waste places, rare. A. VI. VII . 



11. G. moUe (L.) ; pet. oblong deeply bifid i as long again as 

 the mucronate sepals, claws ciliated, carp, transversely wrinkled 

 glabrous, seeds smooth, 1. roundish-reniform in 7 — 9 deep wedge- 

 shaped segments trifid at the end, st. diffuse pubescent. — E. B. 

 778. R. V. 191. — Fl. small, purple. Softly pubescent, glandular 

 above. — Dry places. A. IV. — VIII. 



12. G. lucidum (L.) ; pet. obovate entire, claws glabrous very 

 long nearly equalhng the transversely rugose pyramidal calyx, 

 carp, reticulated triply keiled glandular-hairy at the summit, 

 seeds smooth, 1. reniform in 5 obtuse ineise-crenate mucronate 



