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** JPl, in axillary cymes, all perfect, white or greenish, 



S. G. tricor 'ne (With.) ; I. 6 — 8 in a whorl linear-lanceolate 

 "with marginal backward jyrickles, st. rou^h with deflexed pricHes, 

 cymes 3-iiowered, /r. granular on refiexed peduncles. — £. S. 

 1641. — St. procumbent, spreading. Fl. small, all 3 appearing 



ferfect, the middle one usually alone fertile, cream-coloured, 

 t large, a double globe, covered with small granulations. — 

 Dry calcareous fields. A. VI, — IX. E. 



4. G. Aparine (L.) ; 1, 6 — 8 in a whorl linear-lanceolate with 

 marginal backward prickles, st. rough with deflexed prickles, 

 cymes few- (about 3-) flowered, fruitstalks divaricate straight, 

 Jvuit covered with short hooked bristles. — E. B. 816. — St. strag- 

 gling amongst bushes, 3 — 4 feet long. The marginal prickles 

 near the exteemity of the 1. point forwards, the rest backwards. 

 Fl. small, pale. Ped., or rather flowering branches, with several 

 1. at the primary divisions. Fr. large. — Common. A. VI. — 

 VIII. Goose-grass. Cleavers. E. S. I. 



5. G. spurittm (L.) ; 1. 6 — 8 in a whorl linear-lanceolate with 

 marginal backward prickles, st. rough with deflexed prickles, 

 cymes with 3 — QJlowers, fruitstalks divaricate straight. — Closely 

 resembling the preceding ; distinguished by its more numerous 

 green flowers, floral leaves solitary ("or in pairs"), fruit of 

 about half the size. — a ; fr. smooth. E. B. 1871. — j3. G. Vail- 

 lantii (DC.) ; fr.hispid. E. B. S. 2943.— Fields, a. Forfar ; (3. 

 Safiron Walden and Chesterford, Essex. A. VII. E. S. 



6. G. ang'licum (Huds.) ; I. about 6 in a whorl linear-lanceolate 

 hristle-pointed with marginal forward prickles, st. rough with 

 dejlexed prickles, cymes small forked with divaricate bifid 

 branches. — E. B. 384. — St. 6 — 8 in. high, spreading, slender, 

 brittle. L. usually 6 in a whorl, the lowermost sometimes in 

 fours. Branches of the small panicles often spreading nearly at 

 right angles with their stalk. Fr. granular, nearly black. \_G. 

 parisiense (L.) has hooked prickles on the fruit and can hardly 

 be a form of this species.] — Old walls and dry sandy places. 

 A. VI. VII. E. 



C. Leaves l-veined. Root perennial. Fl. in terminal panicles, 

 white {except in G. verurri). 



* Fruit not granular. No doumward j^icMes on the stem. 



7. G. erec'tum (Huds.) ; I. about 8 in a whorl lanceolate mucro- 

 nate the margins rough with forward prickles, midrib slender, 

 branches of the pyramidal panicle all ascending, fruitstalks divari- 

 cate, fr. oval smooth, pet. taper-pointed. — E. B. 2067. — St. 



