200 
Stellatse. 
— Ls lanceolate not mucronate. Stem stiff, erect. Fr. covered 
with small hooked prickles, rarely (b. hysxopifolium Hoffm. 
in Graub.) glabr.—Damp fields (wanting in T. U. L.) 6 
boreale L. 1058. 
10. Stem glabr. or hairy but with no small, reflexed prickles. 
Fr. not rough with hooked hairs . . . 11 
— Stem almost always covered with small, reflexed prickles 
(sometimes almost glabr. in No. 1068), brittle, clinging 
to the hands, clothes &c. .... IS 
11. Pedicels hair-like drooping before the time of flowering. 
Stem cylindric, with 4 fine ridges. Ls oblong-lanceolate, 
with their greatest width above the middle, gray-green 
underneath.—Woods; distrib. 6 . sylvaticum L, 1059. 
— Pedicels always erect. Stem quadrangular . . 12 
12. Cor.-lobes terminated by a hair-like point. Stem up¬ 
right or ascending, sometimes also weak, decumbent or 
climbing ........ IS 
— Cor.-lobes simply acute. Stem prostrate or ascending IS 
13. Fr. distinctly granular. Comp. G. rubrum 7. 
— Fr. smooth or slightly wrinkled ... 14 
14. Ls insensibly narrowed towards the top, glaucous under¬ 
neath. Branches of the panicle hair-like. Resembling 1059, 
but the ls are insensibly narrowed from the middle to 
the top. G. aristatum L.—Tess., Pfaffers. 7 
laevigatum L. 1060. 
— Ls obtuse, mucronate, almost of the same colour on 
both sides. Type of G. Mollugo .... 15 
15. Ls oblong, or oblong-obovate, broader towards the top, 
obtuse, short-mucronate, thin, gen. dull, with central 
nerve not very prominent, (when dry and held to the 
light) with anastomosed lateral nerves. Stem 
of 100—150 cm, gen. weak, ascending or supporting 
itself on bushes. Branches of the panicle horizontal 
divided into spreading pedicels. — b. btsubricum Gaud. 
Panicle less densely fid, with still finer branches and 
pure white fls. Hedges and thickets, but, apparently 
not everywhere; b. Tess. 7, later than the following! 
elatum Thuill. 1061. 
— Ls oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong, not much broader 
towards the top, short-mucronate, of a firmer con¬ 
sistency than in the last, and more often shining, with 
central nerve rather more prominent, but without anas¬ 
tomosed lateral nerves. Stems 30 — 60 cm , numerous, 
often bushy, ascending. Branches of the panicle hori¬ 
zontal or (v. erectum) spreading-erect, and then the 
stems more solitary and more erect. G. dumetorum 
Rap.—Pasturages, road-sides; everywhere. 5, 6 
Mollugo L. 1062. 
