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oblong-lanceolate or obovate mucronate rough at the margin 
with prickles pointing forward and lower branches of the pani- 
cles spreading horizontally, stem flaccid, segments of the corolla 
taper-pointed, fruit-stalks divaricated. — a. stem glabrous, leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, floral ones small. E. B. t. 1673. — p'. stem 
and leaves hairy. — y. stem glabrous, leaves obovate, floral ones 
large. G. Insubricum Gaud. 
Hedges and thickets, less frequent in Scotland. — y. Wjnander 
Mere: Rev. C. A. Stevens. If. 7, 8. — Stems very long and strag- 
gling, thickened above the joints. Small specimens of this have 
sometimes the panicle close, when they cannot be distinguished from 
G. erectum, a species it must be confessed not satisfactorily distinct. 
Dr. Bromfield found a var. in the Isle of Wight with greenish 
flowers. 
*** Root perennial. Flowers white. Fruit hispid. 
9. G. boredle L. ( Cross-leaved B.) ; leaves 4 in a whorl 
lanceolate 3-nerved glabrous, stems erect, fruit covered with 
hooked bristles. E. B. t. 105. 
Moist rocks, frequent in the north of England, Wales, and Ire- 
land. It. 6 — 8. — In very shady places and clefts of rocks, the 
stems are long and straggling. Flowers numerous, crowded, white. 
Bristles of the fruit hooked. 
**** R 00 t annual. Flowers white or greenish. 
10. G. Parisiense L. ( Wall B.) ; leaves about 6 in a whorl 
lanceolate bristle-pointed rough at the margins with prickles 
pointing forwards, peduncles axillary their branches divaricated 
slender subtriehotomous, stems slender rough with decurved 
prickles. — a. fruit hispid. G. Parisiense L. G. litigiosum.DC. 
— 13. fruit glabrous granulated. G. Anglicum Huds. : E. B. t. 
384. 
fl. Walls and dry sandy soil, rare; in Kent and various parts 
of the east and south-east of England, especially on old walls. Q. 
6, 7. 
11. G. *sacchardtum All. {warty -fruited B.) ; leaves 6 in a 
whorl lanceolate their margins rough with prickles pointing 
forward, peduncles axillary 3-flowered, fruit reflexed warted. 
G. verrucosum E. B. t. 2173. Valantia Aparine Linn. 
Corn-fields, rare. Carse of Gowrie, and Forfar, Scotland. 
Near Malton, Yorkshire. ©. 6 — 8. — Prichles of the stem reflexed. 
The two lateral flowers on each peduncle are sterile and fall away 
one from each side of the large warted fruit, which, together with the 
marginal prickles of the leaves pointing forwards, essentially dis- 
tinguish this species from G. tricorne. Probably introduced with 
seed-corn ; it has not been found for many years. 
12. G. *spurium L. ( smootli-fruited Corn B.) ; leaves 6 — 8 in 
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