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Ration of the clusters. Cal. glabrous or with a vciy few hairs. 
L. glabrous. — /3. subciliafn (Ibib.); 1. more or less ciliated. 
Quite distiuct from the following. — Very rare. Suftblk. West 
of Kcrr\'. Mr. IV. Andrews. Ruan Minor, Corn. Mr. Borrer. 
Wilsfonl, Lincoln. Dr. R. Latham. P. VII. E. 1. 
2. II. ciliata (Rab.); st. herbaceous prostrate clothed with 
minute dccurved hairs, 1. orbicular-ovate ciliated, clusters of ses- 
sile/I. axUlary uj)on tbe Lateral brandies and distinct. — E. B. S. 
2857- — Root strong, woody. St. spreading e.xtensively from the 
croivn of the root but scarcely rootiny. Clusters 1 — 3 together 
in small distiuct bunches. Sep. tipjied with a strong bristle. 
Very ditferent in habit from H. ylabra. — Very rare. Lizard Point, 
Cornwall. Guernsey. P. VII. VIII. E. 
[3. H. hirsuta (L.) ; st. herbaceous prostrate clothed with 
straight spreading hairs, 1. oval-oblong, clusters of sessile tl. a.xil- 
lary distinct. — E. B. 1379. — Cal. haiiy, resembling a minute bur. 
— .V very doubtful native. The Finchley Common plant was 
H. glabra, as I learn from a sjiecimen gathered by the late 
Mr. Dickson. P. VIL] E.? 
3. Illecebrum Lmn. 
1. I. verticillatum (L.). — E. B. 895. — St. procumbent. FI. 
whorled, axillary, minute, white. L. roundish, variable in size, 
shorter or longer than the flowers. — Roggv ground in Devon and 
Cornwall. P. VIL ' E. 
4. PoLYCARi’ON Linn. 
1. P. tetraphyllum (L.) ; tidandrous, pet. emarginate, stem 1. 
in fours, 1. on the branches ojiposite. — E. B. 1031. — In young 
plants the 1. are often all opposite. — Coasts of the south-west of 
England. A. VI. VIL E. 
5. ScLERANTHUs Lhin. 
1. S. annuus{L.)', subdecandrous, segments of the calyx of 
the fr. jiatent acute with a very narrow membranous margin, as 
long as their tube. — E.B. 351. — Styles longer than the stamens. 
St. rej)eatedly dichotomous, green. FI. green, often soUtaiy in 
the forks of the stem, or densely corymbose. — Sandy Adds. 
A. VI. VIL 
2. S. perennis (L.); decandrous, segments of the calyx of the 
fr. connivent obtuse rounded with a broad membranous margin. 
— E. B. 352. — Stv’les usually shorter than the stamens. St. 
nearly simple or irregularly branched, procumbent, glaucous, at 
length reddish. FI. variegated uith green and white. L. erect, 
directed to one side. — Sandy fields in Norfolk and Suffolk. P. 
VI.— VIII. E. 
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