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naea a and afterwards in Flora, 6 where he placed the genus under Phyllanthus and 

 changed the name of the plant to Phyllanthus gaudichaudii, so as not to confuse it 

 with P. marianus, c a valid species. 

 I follow Hooker in recognizing the validity of the genus Glochidion.^ 

 References: 



Glochidion marianum Muell. Arg. Linnaea 32: 65. 1863 

 Glossogyne tenuifolia. Spanish needles. 



Family Asteraceae. 

 A perennial, glabrous composite closely resembling Bidens, but having pistillate 

 ray flowers instead of sterile ones. Stock tufted, sometimes almost woody, with erect 

 dichotomous stems, 15 to 30 cm. high and often almost leafless, or sometimes elongated 

 decumbent, and leafy at the base; leaves alternate, chiefly radical, or nearly so, the 

 lowest sometimes cuneate and 3-lobed, all the others pinnately divided into 5 or 7 

 stiff linear segments, either entire or 2 or 3-lobed; flower heads small, on long slen- 

 der terminal peduncles; involucre campanulate, not 2 lines long, the bracts few, in 

 about 2 rows, narrow and nearly equal; receptacle chaffy; ray florets pistillate, small, 

 yellow, spreading, ligulate, fertile, or sometimes wanting; disk florets tubular, her- 

 maphrodite, 4 or 5 toothed; anthers obtuse at the base; style branches ending in 

 subulate points; achenes linear, flattened, striate, with 3 or more ribs on each face, 

 crowned by 2 erect or slightly diverging awns. 



This plant is common along the roadsides. A preparation made from the root of 

 the very closely allied Glossogyne pinnatifida is used in India as an application for 

 scorpion stings. 

 References: 



Glossogyne tenuifolia (Labill. ) Cass. Diet. Sc. Nat. 51: 475. 1827. 

 Bidens tenuifolia Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. 44. t. 45. 1824. 

 Glueweed. See Boerhaavia diffusa. 

 Goat's-foot convolvulus. See Ipomoea pes-caprae. 

 Goatweed. See Ageratum conyzoides. 

 Goat's-rue. See Cracca mariana. 

 Gogo (Guam). See Lens phaseoloides. 

 Gogong bakai (Visaya). See Lens phaseoloides. 

 Golae (Guam) . 



The vernacular name for greens or leafy esculents (Spanish "verdura"). See 

 Pot herbs. 



Golden shower (Hawaii). See Cassia fistula. 

 Golondrina (Guam). See Euphorbia hirta. 



Gomphrena globosa. Globe amaranth. 



Family Amaranthaceae. 

 Local names. — Amor seco (Spanish). 

 In general cultivation; occasionally found in waste places, escaped from cultivation. 

 References: 



Gomphrena globosa L. Sp. PI. 1: 224. 1753. 

 Gomuto palm. See Saguerus pinnatus. 

 Goodeniaceae. Goodenia family. 



The only representative of this family in Guam is Lobelia koenigii. 

 Goosefoot, white. See Chenopodium album. 

 Goose grass. See Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum. 



a Vol. 32, p. 65, 1863. cLinmea, vol. 32, p. 17, 1863. 



*> Vol. 48, p. 379, 1865. <* Flora of British India, vol. 5, p. 306, 1890. 



