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as the calyx, fruitstalks about equalling the calyx. — 0. vulgatum 

 Sm. E. B. 789. R. v. 229. 0. viscosum Fries.— ^t. erect, 

 glandular-hairy. Fl. in close cymes, longer than their stalks. 

 — /3. C. apetalum (Dum.) ; pet. 0, whole plant usually much more 

 slender.— Fields and hanks. A. IV.— IX. E. S. I. 



2. C. trividle (Link) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate, sep. oblong-ovate 

 bluntish and as well as the bracts membranous at their margins 

 and glabrous tips, caps, cylindrical ascending twice as long as 

 the calyx, fruitstalks at least as long as the calyx. — S. v. 229. 

 0. yiscosum Sm. E. B. 790. C. vulgatum Fries. — St. downy, 

 mostly procumbent, some short and barren. Fl. larger than 

 those of the last, in small terminal cymes the branches of which 

 are often lengthened as the fr. ripens, sometimes 5-androus. — 

 /3. C. holodeofides (Fries) ; glabrous, the sides of the stem alter- 

 nately downy. St. 63. 9. — ^In fields. ^. Near Newcastle on 

 Tyne ; and Perth. B. or P. IV.— IX. E. S. I. 



tt Caps, nearly straight. 



3. C. semidecan' drum (L.) ; 1. bi'oadly ovate, sep. lanceolate 

 broadly membranous at their margins and tips, bracts with their 

 upper half membranous, caps, cylindrical slightly inflated longer 

 than the calyx, /y-wjifstefts longer than the calyx at first reflexed 

 afterwards erect. — E. B. 1630. R. v. 228. — St. erect or decum- 

 bent, downy, sometimes viscid. Pet. with simple veins, not di- 

 stinctly notched. Lower 1. with long linear hafts. Known by 

 its half-membranous bracts. — Common in dry places. A. IV. V. 



E. S. I. 



4. C pumilum (Ourt. !) ; I. spathulate, upper I. oblong, sep. 

 lanceolate acute with their tips and margins narrowly membra- 

 nous, uppermost bracts with an extremely narrow membranous 

 margin, caps, slightly curved upwards longer than the calyx, 

 fruitstalks short curved at the top declining from their base, ulti- 

 mately erect. — Curt. ii. 92. C. glutinosum Fr., Fl. Ban. 2537. 

 — ^Viscid. St. branched at the root, afterwards nearly simple. 

 Pet. with branched veins, notched. Lower 1. with long linear 

 hafts. Fl. in terminal forked cymes. — Dry banks in the south. 



A. rv^.v. E. 



5. C. tetran'drum (Curt.); 1. oval or oblong, sep. lanceolate 

 acute their tips and margins narrowly membranous, bracts 

 wholly herbaceous, caps, a little exceediDg the cal. straight, 

 fruitstalks 2 — 4 times as long as the caps, straight, ultimately 

 erect. — E. B. 166. Curt. ii. 93. C. pumilum Gren., Bor, C. 

 atrcmirens and C. tetrandrum Bab. — Viscid. St. cymose from 

 the base. Bracts very broad, oval, rather acute or apJcralate, or 

 nearly rovmd, leaflike. Pet. with branched veina, notched. 



