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CLEAVERS

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 478 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLEAVERS , or See also:

GOOSE-GRASS, Galium Aparine (natural See also:order See also:Rubiaceae), a See also:common plant in hedges and See also:waste places, with a See also:long, weak, straggling, four-sided, See also:green See also:stem, bearing whorls of 6 to 8 narrow leaves, a to 2 in. long, and, like the angles of the stem, rough from the presence of See also:short, stiff, downwardly-pointing,hooked hairs. The small, See also:white, See also:regular See also:flowers are See also:borne, a few together, in axillary clusters, and are followed by the large, hispid, two-celled See also:fruit, which, like the See also:rest of the plant, readily clings to a rough See also:surface, whence the common name. The plant has a wide See also:distribution throughout the See also:north temperate See also:zone, and is also found in temperate See also:South See also:America.

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