176 43. TALEBIANACE-S;. 



slender, square, diffuse, ascending. L. often nearly glabrous 

 or with marginal hairs (jwt prickles) spreading or backward. 

 Lower part of stem and leaves sometimes densely covered with 

 patent hairs. Panicle very variable in size. Fr. very minutely 

 granular. — a. G. montanum (Vill.) ; 1. linear-lanceolate, pan. 

 with short ascending branches and few-flowered cymes. — 3. G. 

 nitidulum (Thuil.) ; 1. Mnear, pan. with somewhat spreading 

 branches and compact cymes. — Limestone hills, rare. P. VI. 

 VIL E. S.L 



*** Stem rough loith downward prickles. 



12. G. uligindsum (L.) ; I. 6 — 8 in a whorl linear-lanceolate 

 bristle-pointed the margins rough like the angles of the stem with 

 backward prickles, panicles small axillary few-flowered trichoto- 

 mous, the branches patent 3-fid, fruitstalks divaricate straight, 

 fruit granular. — B. B. 1972. — Stems slender, brittle, about a 

 foot high, weak. L. usually 6 in a whorl, discoloured at the 

 tip, shortly acuminate. Fr. dark brown. — Wet places. P. VII. 

 VIII. E. S. 



13. G. pahts'tre (L.) ; I. 4, in a whorl broadly linear broader 

 upwards bhint, midrib slender, panicle diffiise, fr.-st. straight, 

 spreading at right angles, fr. smooth. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, slen- 

 der, usually branched. Fl. small, white. St. and branches 

 nearly smooth. L. narrow, lowest usually in sixes, upper in 

 fours of which 2 are smaller. — On dry ground thel. are broader, 

 those of the barren shoots often obovate : then known by its 

 blunt 1. and downward prickly stems. — G. Withmngii (Sm.) 

 difiisrs only by having rough edges to the leaves. — A very 

 strong form, much larger in aU respects, is the G. elongatum 

 (Presl). JE. B. 1857. — Wet places by ditches and rivers. P. 

 VI. VII. E. S. I. 



4. Eu'bia. lAnn. Madder. 



1. R. peregrina (L.) ; 1. 4 — 6 in a whorl elliptic or lanceolate 

 shining smooth above without veins the margin and keel rough 

 with reflexed bristles. — E. B. 851. — Old st. terete; shoots 

 spreading, square. L. rigid persistent. PI. in panicled cymes. 

 Oor. rotate, 6-cleft; lobes oval, suddenly narrowed into a 

 slender point. — Stony and sandy thickets in the South. P. 



VI.— vni. E. I. 



Order XLIII. VALEEIANACE.^. 



Gal. superior; limb various, toothed, or inconspicuous, or 

 involute and ultimately resembling a pappus. Cor. tubular, 



