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C. Leaves 1-veined. Hoot perennial. Fl. in tenninal panicle!!, 
wJtiU' (except in G. vcrum). 
• Fruit not grantdar. No downward priclcles on the stem. 
7. G. erec'tum (Huds.) ; /. about 8 in a whorl lanceolate mucro- 
nate the margins rough with forward prickles, midrib slender, 
branches of the pifnimidul panicle all ascending, fruitstalks div.ari- 
cate, fr. oval smooth, pet. taper-pointed. — -St. glabrous or hairj-, 
erect. L. lanceolate, scarcely at all obo\ ate ; \ eins not trans- 
lucent; margins with 2 rows of prickles pointing- forwards. 
Fl. white.— a. 1. lanceolate. K B. 2067.— (3. G. cinerenm ( Sm.) ; 
1. (5—8 in a whorl linear. K B. S. '278:1.— G. aristatum (Sm.), 
E. B. 2784, has 1. in sixes but is probably a state of this species. — 
Banks and pastures. P. VI. and IX. E. I. 
8. G. Molli'tyo (L.) ; /. about 8 in a xvhorl lanceolate-obovate 
or obovate-obhny cuspidate the margins rough with forward 
prickles, branches of the broad pan. spreading lower ones hori- 
zontal or defie.xed, fruitstalks divaricate, fr. glabrous. — U. B. 
IG7:]. — St. ascending, square, thickened at the joinings, glabrous 
or hairy. L. slightly translucent, veined, hardly separated at 
the base. Pan. large. Fl. small, white. Styles nearly free. — 
G. insubricum (Craud. ) is a var. with 1. about 6 in a whorl 
obovate abruptly cuspidate, branches of the panicle few-flowered 
terminating in trichotomous umbels, floral 1. large, bracts large 
usually solitary. — Hedges and thickets. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 
9. G. rerum (L.) ; I. about 8 in a whorl lincar-setaceom jmth 
revohcte margin.'' channeled above downy beneath, panicles many 
small densely flowered subterminal, fruitstalks patent, fruit 
smooth, pet. bhmt and apicrdate. — £. B. 660. — St. erect, slightly 
branched, somewhat woody, with many whorls of narrow de- 
flexed leaves. Fl. golden yeUoiv, rarely green or straw-colom-ed, 
usually in many small dense panicles collected into a kind of 
terminal spike. St. and upper surface of the 1. sometimes downy 
or rough. On loose sands the st. are much more branched and 
the fl. sometimes solitaiy. — Dry and sandy places. P. VII. VIII. 
F. S. I. 
•* Fruit granular, not hairy. St. without downward j^rickles. 
10. G. saxat'ilc (L.) ; I. about 6 in a xvhorl obovate pointed 
flat, midrib slender, panicles corjTubose small, fl.- and fr. -stalks 
erect-patent, pet. acute. — E. B. 815. — St. many, procimibent, 
much oranched. L. suddenly narrowed to a point, smooth, with 
a few marginal forward prickles; lower 1. roundly obovate. 
Turns black in drying.— Heaths. P. VH. VHI. E. S. I. 
11. G. montunum (Vdl.) ; 1. 6 — 7 in a whorl, lower I. oborate- 
