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glabrous or iairy, erect, not mucli branched. L. lanceolate, 

 scarcely at all obovate, those of the main st. erect, patent ; 

 veins not translucent ; margins with 2 rows of prickles pointing 

 forwards. Fl. white. — a ; 1. lanceolate. — [^. G. cinermm (Sm.) ; 

 1. 6—8 in a whorl linear. E. B. S. 2783. Perhaps a distinct 

 species, G. diffumm (Hook.), but a doubtful native.] — G. aris- 

 tatum (Sm.) has 1. in sixes, but is probably a state of this species. 

 E. B. S. 2784.— Banks and pastures. P. YI. and IX. E. I. 



8. G. Mollugo (L.) ; I. about 8 in a whorl lanceolate-ohovate 

 or obovate-ohlong cuspidate the margins rough with forward 

 prickles, branches of the broad pan. spreading lower ones hori- 

 zontal or deflexed, fruitstalks divaricate, fr. glabrous. — E. B. 

 1673. — St. ascending, square, thickened at the joinings, glabrous 

 or hairy. L. slightly translucent, veined, hardly separated at 

 the base, those of the main st. horizontal or declining. Pan. 

 large. Fl. small, white. Styles nearly free. — /3. G. insubricum 

 (Gaud.) ; 1. about 6 in a whorl obovate abruptly cuspidate, pan.- 

 branches few-flowered terminating in trichotomous umbels, 

 floral 1. large, bracts large usually solitary. — y. Bakeri (Syme) ; 

 1. 6 — 8 in a whorl linear-lanceolate, pan. with few-flowered 

 ascending branches. It may be distinct. — Hedges and thickets. 



P. VII. vin. E. s. I. 



9. G. verum (L.) ; I. about 8 in a whorl linear-setaceom with 

 revolute margins channelled above downy beneath, panicles many 

 small densely flowered subterminal, fruitstalks patent, fruit 

 xmooth, pet. blunt and apiculate. — E. B. 660. — St. erect, slightly 

 branched, somewhat woody, with many whorls of narrow de- 

 flexed leaves. Fl. golden yellow, rarely green or straw-coloured, 

 ( G. decolorans Gren. ?) usually in many small dense panicles 

 collected into a kind of terminal spike. St. and upper surface 

 of the 1. sometimes downy or rough. On loose sands the st. are 

 much more branched and the fl. sometimes solitary. — Dry and 

 sandy places. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



** Fruit granular, not hairy. St. without downward prickles. 



10. G. saxat'ik (L.) ; I. about 6 in a whorl obovate pointed 

 flat, midrib slender, panicles corymbose small, fl.- and fr. -stalks 

 erect-patent, pet, acute. — E. B. 815. — St. many, procumbent, 

 much branched. L. suddenly narrowed to a point, smooth with 

 a few marginal forward prickles ; lower 1. roundly obovate. It 

 turns black in drying.— Heaths. P. VII. VIH. E. S. I. 



11. G. sylves'tre (Poll.); I. 6 — 8 in a whorl linear or linear- 

 lanceolate mucronate with revolute edges, midrib slender promi- 

 nent, panicles few-flowered,j^.- andfr.-st. erect-patent, fr. faintly 

 granular, pet. acute. — G. pusillum Sm. E. B. 74. — St. many, 



