G. MOLLÙGO, L. Perennial, smooth throughout; stems erect or diffuse, 2 or 3° long; leaves 8, or 6 on the branchlets, oblanceolate to nearly linear; flowers very numerous in ample almost leafless panicles; fruit smooth.--Roadsides and fields, N. Y. and Penn. (Nat. from Eu.) G. ÁNGLICUM, Huds. Annual, slender, diffuse, seldom 1° high, glabrous; leaves 5--7, oblanceolate to nearly linear (3´´ long), their margins and the angles of the stem spinulose-scabrous; flowers rather few, cymulose on leafy branches, greenish-white, very small; fruit glabrous, more or less tuberculate.--Roadsides, Bedford Co., Va. (_Curtiss_). (Nat. from Eu.) G. TRICÓRNE, With. Annual, resembling _G. Aparine_, rather stout, with simple branches; leaves 6 or 8, oblanceolate, cuspidate-mucronate, the margins and stem retrorsely prickly-hispid; flowers mostly in clusters of 3, dull white; fruits rather large, tuberculate-granulate, not hairy, pendulous.--Fields, eastward. (Nat. from Eu.) § 2. _Indigenous species; fruit dry._ [*] _Annual; leaves about 8 in a whorl; peduncles 1--3-flowered, axillary; fruit bristly with hooked prickles._ 1. G. Aparìne, L. (CLEAVERS. GOOSE-GRASS.) Stem weak and reclining, bristle-prickly backward, hairy at the joints; leaves lanceolate, tapering to the base, short-pointed, rough on the margins and midrib (1--2´ long); flowers white.--Shaded grounds, throughout the continent; probably as an introduced plant eastward. [*][*] _Perennials; leaves in 4's, comparatively large, and broad (narrower in n. 7 and 8), not cuspidate-pointed, more or less distinctly 3-nerved; fruit uncinate-hispid (except in n. 6 and 7)._ [+] _Peduncles loosely 3--several-flowered; flowers dull purple to yellowish-white._ 2. G. pilòsum, Ait. _Hairy; leaves oval_, dotted, hairy (1´ long), the lateral nerves obscure; _peduncles 2--3-forked, the flowers all pedicelled_.--Dry copses, R. I. and Vt. to Ill., E. Kan., and southward. Var. puncticulòsum, Torr. & Gray. Almost glabrous; leaves varying to elliptical-oblong, hispidulous-ciliate.--Va. to Tex. 3. G. Kamtscháticum, Steller. Stems weak, mainly glabrous (1° high); _leaves orbicular_ to oblong-ovate, thin (½--1´ long), slightly pilose; flowers slenderly pedicellate; _corolla glabrous, yellowish-white_, not turning dark, _its lobes merely acute_. (G. circæzans, var. montanum, _Torr. & Gray_.)--Higher mountains of N. Eng., L. Canada, and far westward. (Asia.) 4. G. circæ̀zans, Michx. (WILD LIQUORICE.) Smooth or downy (1° high); _leaves oval_, varying to ovate-oblong, _mostly obtuse_, ciliate (1--1½´ long); _peduncles usually once forked, the branches elongated_ and widely diverging in fruit, _bearing several remote flowers on very short lateral pedicels_, reflexed in fruit; lobes of the _greenish corolla hairy outside, acute or acuminate_.--Rich woods, N. Eng. to Minn., south to Fla. and Tex.