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leafless dense spikes, seed shining slightly rough (very small), st. 
diffuse —E. B. 1034. St.75.14.—Whole herbage covered with a 
greasy pulverulent foetid substance —Waste places by road-sides. 
A. VIII. IX. 
2. C. polyspermum (L.); 1. ovate-elliptical, fl. in axillary leaf- 
less cymose racemes, seeds shining minutely punctulate blunt at 
the edge.—E. B. 1480 and 1481. Leight. t.5. St.75. 12 and 13. 
—Racemes more or less cymose or spicate. St. erect or pro- 
cumbent. L. acute or obtuse. C. acutifolium and C. polysper- 
mum are undistinguishable.—Damp waste places. A. VIII. IX. 
tt Leaves toothed angled or lobed. 
3. C. urbicum (L.); 1. triangular sinuate-dentate or nearly 
entire their base contracted into the petiole, spikes erect nearly 
leafless compound, seeds very minutely rough blunt at the edge. 
—L. with short triangular teeth. Seed almost as large as rape- 
seed.—B. C. intermedium (M. and K.); 1. with large acute teeth. 
LE. B. 717.—Near Oxford. Sm. Fl. Br. 8. Waste places. A. 
VIII. 
4. C. album (L.); 1. rhomboid-ovate sinuate-dentate entire 
below, upper ones lanceolate nearly entire, fl. im compound 
branched nearly leafless racemes, seeds smooth and shining bluntly 
keeled at the edge.—EH. B. 1723. St. 75. 6.—Axillary racemes 
spicate dense, 1. mealy.—f. C. viride (L.); racemes cymose, 1. 
green often quite entire. St. 75. 7.—Waste places. A. VII. 
VIII. 
5. C. ficifolium (Sm.); 1. unequally 3-lobed from a wedgeshaped 
base, lobes ascending, middle lobe elongate oblong-lanceolate den- 
tate obtuse, upper 1. linear-lanceolate entire, fl. in erect nearly 
leafless cymose racemes, seeds excavate-punctate shining blunt 
and not keeled at the edge—E. B. 1724. St. 75. 10.—Seeds 
smaller than in C. album.—Waste ground, rare. A. VIII. IX. 
6. C. murale (L.); 1. rhomboid-ovate unequally and sharply 
toothed entire below, fl. in divaricately-branched leafless cymes, 
seeds elevate-punctate opaque acutely keeled at the edge.—E. B. 
1722. St. 75. 5.—Waste ground near towns and villages. A. 
VIII. 
7. C. hybridum (L.); 1. subcordate angulate-dentate acuminate, 
teeth large distant, fl. in aggregated panicled leatless cymes, seed 
eacavate-punctate opaque blunt and not keeled at the edge— 
E.B. 1919. St. 75. 2.—Seeds very large. L. with 2—4 large 
teeth on each side.—Waste places, rare. A. VIII. , 
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