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Chenopodium.] CXVII. CHENOPODIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) 5 
sinuate-toothed upper entire, clusters in slender axillary and terminal simple 
or panicled spikes, sepals enclosing the utricle, seed horizontal smooth 
shining margin obtuse. Wall. Cat. t. 6956; Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2. 
72; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 904; Wight Ie. t. 1786; Dalz. d' Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 
Suppl. 73. C. vulpinum, Wall. Cat. 6954 B. 
BENGAL, SILHET and the Deccan; Wallich, Heyne, &c.—DisTRIB. Widely 
spread in the Old World, introduced into America. . 
Usually a tall rank aromatic much-branched plant, easily distinguished by the 
long slender spikes of smallclusters. Wight remarks that the flowers are polygamous 
at Coimbatore, 
— P Scentless herbs. Sepals 1-3, succulent, baccate in fruit. Embryo 
imperfectly annular. 
. 8. C. Blitum, Hook. f. in Gen. Plant. 52; glabrous, erect or ascend- 
ing, leaves petioled triangular hastate or deltoid and cordate acuminate 
deeply acutely unequally toothed, clusters sessile axillary and in termina 
ealy spikes, perianth baccate not enclosing the utricle, seed vertica 
smooth margin obtuse. Blitum virgatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. 4; Boiss. Fl. 
Orient. iv. 905; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xii. 2. 83; Lamk. Ill. t.5; Bot. 
Mag. t. 276. 
N.W. Ixpri; Kashmir, alt. 8500 ft. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-14,000 ft., 
Thomson, &c,— DISTRIB. Europe, N. and W. Asia, N. Africa. . á 
Stem 1-3 ft., rather stout, white. Leaves 1-3 in., bright green ; petiole slen er; 
Shorter or longer than the blade. Clusters i-j in. diam. Stamen 1. See 
opaque. 
3. BETA, Linn. 
Succulent herbs. Leaves alternate, subentire. Flowers 2-sexual, soli- 
TY orin axillary spiked or cymose clusters. Perianth urceolate, 5-lobe i 
cohering in fruit by their enlarged hardened bases. Stamens 5. | 
fleshy, annular. Ovary depressed, sunk in the disk; style short, stigmas 
.Stbulate. Utricle adnate to the disk and base of perianth. - See 
‚orizontal, testa thin, albumen floury; embryo annular.—Species 2 (or 
8), N. Asiatic and European. 
B. vulgaris, Linn. Sp. Pl. 922; annual or perennial, glabrous, root- 
leaves ovate or oblong obtuse base cuneate or cordate cauline rhombic ovate 
oblong obovate or lanceolate, spikes slender panicled, flowers sessile so itary 
or <-3-nate, bracts narrow acute, sepals oblong obtuse thickened at the ase 
n fruit. Mog. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2.55; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 898; Lam z 
Encycl. & 182; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 171; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 
^9. B. benghalensis, Road, Fl. Ind.ii.59; Wall. Cat.6948. B. orientalis, 
Roth Nov, Sp. 181. 
Cultivated in various parts of ĪNDIA. 
a tem 1-3 ft., erect, furrowed. Lower leaves 1-10 in., often trowel-shaped; base 
yecorrent on the petiole, margin waved, upper short incurved. Spikes . 
Slender ; clusters remote. Sepals with membranous margins.— Beet, 
4. SPINACIA, Linn. 
;,,AUnnalherbs, Leaves attenuate. Flowers dicecious, ebracteate, males 
12 terminal leafless spikes; females in axillary clusters. Mare fl. Sepals 
79, herbaceous, simple. Stamens 4-5, filaments capillary. Fem. fl. 
