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deflexed prickles, cymes 3-flowered, Jr. granular on reflexed 
peduncles. — E. B. 1641. — St. procumbent, spreading. Fl. 
small, all 3 appearing perfect, the middle one usually alone 
fertile, cream-coloured. Fr. 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, 
fruit covered with short hooked bristles. — E. B. 816. — St. strag- 
gling amongst bushes, 3 — 4 feet long. The marginal prickles 
near the extremity of the 1. point forwards, the rest backwards. 
Fl. small pale. Fed., 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. spiirium (L.) ; 1. 6 — 8 in a whorl linear-lanceolate with 
marginal backward prickles, st. rough with deflexed prickles, 
cymes with 3 — 9 Jloivers, 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.- — /3. G. Vail- 
lantii (DC.) ; fr. hispid. E. B. S. 2943.— Fields, a. Forfar ; 
/3. Safi"ron Walden and Chesterford, Essex. Oxon. Dorset. 
Warwicksh. A. VII. E. S. 
6. G. ang'licum (Huds.) ; I. about 6 in a whorl linear-lanceolate 
bristle-pointed with marginal forward 23ricMes, st. rough ivith 
deflexed 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. — 
Old walls and dry sandy places. A. VI. VII. E. 
C. Leaves 1-veined. Eoot perennial. Fl. in terminal panicles, 
2vhite (except in G. verum). 
* Fruit not granular. No dotvnward prickles on the stem. 
7. G. erec'tum (Huds.) ; I. ubotU 8 in a whorl lanceolate mucro- 
nate the margins rough with forward prickles, midrib slender, 
branches of the pyramidal panicle all ascending, fruitstalks diva- 
ricate, fr. oval smooth, pet. taper-pointed. — E. B. 2067. — St. 
glabrous or hairy, erect, not much branched. L. lanceolate, 
scarcely at all obovate, those of the main st. erect, patent ; 
veins not translucent ; margins with 2 rows of prickles pointing 
