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with it either in PS. or Mad. In the Canaries it is an abun- 
dant weed in cornfields. 
0. G. sacchauatum All. Raspa-lingua. 
St. procumbent numerously branched at the base smooth, 
the angles slightly rough with a few feeble minute reflexed 
prickles ; 1. 6-nate lanceolate abruptly aristate or mucronate 
smooth, their margins serrulato-ciliate with small forward- 
pointing spinules ; ped. axillary short 3-fld., recurved in fr. ; fl. 
small cream-col., the 2 side-fl. imperfect sterile ; fr. solitary 
large drooping w. or cream-col. finally light brown coarsely 
granulate or warted smooth ; mericarps globose scarcely com- 
bined, one mostly abortive. — “ All. Ped. no. 39 ;” DC. iv. 607 ; 
WB. ii. 182 ; Koch 362 ; Bab. 156. G. verrucosum Sm. in EB. 
t. 2173; Fl. Gr. t. 133; Sm. E. Fl. i. 204. Valantia aparine 
L. Sp. 1491 ; Pers. Syn. 129 ; Desf. ii. 390 ; Brot. i. 207 ; Buch 
195. no. 282. V. aparine a Lam. ex DC. — Herb. aim. Mad. 
reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc ; PS. reg. 2, r. Waste ground in vineyards, by 
road-sides, on walls and in cornfields in Mad. everywhere ; in 
PS. only in the Serra de Fora. Dec. -June principally, but 
almost at all seasons. — Whole pi. smooth and shining, rather 
dark full gr. St. branching numerously from near the root, stout 
and simple upwards, procumbent or ascending 6-12 in. long. 
Ped. solitary tliickish shorter than the 1. strongly recurved or 
deflexed in fr. Fl. minute, the 2 lateral male barren fl. shortly 
stalked opposite. The strikingly large and handsome droop- 
ing pyramidally warted or tuberculated cream-col. or whitish 
fr., each mericarp of which is 3 millim. in diam. and coarsely 
granulated like a sugared almond, marks out at once the spe- 
cies, which is further easily distinguished from G. tricorne by 
the forward-pointing marginal spinules of the 1. 
7. G. GEMINIFLOllL’M Lowe. 
Nearly smooth or but slightly liispidulous dwarfish ; st. 
short erect or subdiffuse slender filiform or capillary divari- 
cately fork-branched from the base and especially upwards, 
nearly smooth or glabrescent, the four angles' here and there 
with a few remote minute reflexed spinules ; 1. 4-6-nate sub- 
petiolate elliptic-obovate aristato -cuspidate spreading or de- 
flexed, their margins ciliate and upper surface often rough with 
forward-pointing setules ; pedic. smooth axillary, either in 
pairs or single at each whorl and shorter than the 1., or binate 
on a once-forked 1 -leafed ped. and longer than the 1., in fr. 
divaricate or sometimes recurved ; fl. w. very small ; fr. small 
densely hirsute or imcinately setose. — Novit. o41 or 19. — Herb, 
ann. PS. reg. 4, r. North side of the rocky summit of Pico do 
Facho and on Pico do Gastello (often intermixed with Aspera 
muralis (L.)) ; abundant in the clefts of rocks and mountain 
