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4. C. murdle L. {Nettle -leaved G .) ; leaves shining ovate ap- 
proaching to rhomboid acute sharply toothed entire at the 
base, spikes divaricately branched cymose leafless, seeds opaque 
minutely granular acutely keeled at the edge. E. B. 1. 1722. 
Waste places near towns and villages. Not found in Scotland. ©. 
8, 9. — Branches of the spikes spreading. Flowers lather distant. 
Smell unpleasant. 
5. C. hybridum L. {Maple-leaved G .) ; leaves subcordate 
angulato-dentate acuminate, teeth large distant, spikes very 
much branched subcymose divaricate leattess, seeds opaque 
dotted, their edge obtuse and not keeled. 1 E. B. t. 1919. 
Waste places and in cultivated fields, not common ; about London 
Colchester, Dedham, Ely, and Edinburgh. 0. 8. — Stems slender. 
Leaves large, with very prominent teeth or angles. Spikes similar to 
the last, but the branches are more remote and spreading, and the 
margin of the seed is different. 
6. C. album L. {tvhite G.) ; leaves ovate inclining to rhom- 
boid sinuate-toothed entire at the base, upper ones oblong 
perfectly entire, spikes branched somewhat leafy, seeds even 
or very minutely dotted shining blunt and keeled at the edge. — 
a. leaves mealy, axillary spikes dense. E. B. 1. 1723. — f3. leaves 
green more entire, spikes elongated more branched. Sm. C. 
viride L. 
Waste places, dunghills, & c., common. 0. 7 — 9. — Leaves usually 
covered with a whitish and mealy substance, varying in their width, 
and in the erosion, or blunt toothing, of the upper half of their 
margins. When they are green and nearly entire it is the C. 
viride L. 
7. C. Jicifulium Sm. {Fig-leaved G.) ; leaves long stalked 
deltoid-cuneate at the base toothed and sinuate at the margin 
thin, lower ones hastate 3-lobed lobes ascending, middle ones 
elongated, upper ones oblong, uppermost linear quite entire, 
seeds shining dotted their edge obtuse and not keeled. E. B. 
t. 1724. 
Dunghills and waste ground, about London and Yarmouth. ©. 
8, 9. — Hudson and Moquin-Tandon refer this to the obscure C. 
serotinurn L„ which, however, Sir James Smith says is a Spanish 
plant, not yet found in Britain; but Linnaeus himself considered the 
English plant to be tbe same. Mr. Bentham unites it to C. album , 
from which it must be confessed it differs only in character^ of little 
importance. 
** Seeds vertically compressed. Blitum Moq. 
8. C . ghucum L. {Oak-leaved G.) ; leaves all oblong toothed 
and sinuate at the margin glaucous and mealy beneath, spikes 
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