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14. caetophtllace:*; i'- 
2. C. trtvidle (Xink) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate, sep. oblong-ovate 
bliintish and as well as the bt'acts membranous at their margins 
and glabrmts tips, caps, cylindrical ascending twice as long as 
the calyx, fruitstalks at least as long as the calyx. — R. v<' 229. 
C. viscosum Sm., E. B. 790. C. vulgatum i^n'es.— St. downy, 
mostly procumbent, some short and barren. Fl. larger than 
those of the last, in small terminal panicles the bra,nches of 
which are often lengthened as the fr. ripens.— ^. liolostvoides 
(Fries) ; glabrous, the sides of thp stem alternately do-\viiy. St. 
63. 9. — In fields. /3. Near Newcastle on Tyne : and Perth. B. 
or P. IV.— IX. . ^ ^ , , . , ^ E. S. I. 
tt Caps, nearly straight, 
3. C. semidecan'drum (L.); 1. broadly ovate, sep. lanceolate 
broadly membranous at their margins and tips, bracts tvitk 
their upper half 7ncmbranous, caps, cylindrical slightly inflated 
longer than the calyx, fruitstalks longer than the calyx at first 
rcjlexcd afterivards erect.~E. B. 1630. B. v. 228. — St. erect or 
decumbent, downy, sometimes viscid. Known by its half-mem- 
branous bracts.— Comipon in dry places. A. IV. V, E. S. I. 
4i C. pumilum (Cm-t. !); 1. spathulate, upper I. oblong, sep. 
lanceolate acute with their tips and margins narrowly membra- 
nous, uppmnost bracts with an extremely naiTffiv inembranom 
margin, caps, slightly curved upwards longer than the calyx, 
fruitstalks short curved at the top declining from their base idti- 
mately erect. — Cuii. ii. 92~Viscid. St. branched at the root, 
afterwards nearly simple. Lower 1. with long linear hafts. Fl. 
in terminal forked corymbs. — Dry banks in South. A. IV; V. E. 
5. C. tetran'drum (Curt.); 1. oval or oblong, sep. lanceolate 
acute their tips and margins narrowly membranous, bracts 
wholly herbaceous, caps, a little exceeding the cal. straight, 
fruitstalks 2—4 t{7ncs as long as the caps, straight idtimately erect. 
— B. B. 166. Curt. ii. 93. C. pumilum Gren., Bor; C. atrovirens 
iind C. tetrandrum Bab. — Viscid. St. repeatedly forked from 
the very base -with a fi. in each fork. Bracts very broad, oval, 
rather acute or apiculate, or nearly round, leaflike. — Walls and 
sandy places near the sea. A. V.-^VII. E. S. I. 
*• Boot tndy perennial,' with 'prostrate leafy shoots. Bet. much 
longer than the calyr. 
6. C. aroen'se (L.) ; st. ascending prostrate \)e\i)Vt, 't linear- 
lanceolate, fl. many, sep. and bracts ' lanceolate slightly acute 
with membranous margins and tips, caps, at last longer than 
the calyx, seeds small acutely tuberclecl. — B. B. 93. — St. long. 
Fl. 7 — 14, in forked panicles. Fruitstalks erect, bent just under 
the caJvx. St. and 1. hairy or glabrous. — In sandy, gravelly 
and chalky places, rare. P. R'.— VIH. E. S. I. 
