cultivation. One sort, Ch. Bonus-Henricus, or Good King Henry, 
boiled, is a good substitute for spinach, and in some gardens 
is cultivated for the purpose. It is less generally known that 
its seeds are made use of in the manufacture of a substance 
formerly much in demand, shagreen. Another kind, the Cheno- 
podium Quinoa, we have already figured in this Magazine, Tab. 
3641, on account of the extensive use made of its seeds in Chili 
as an article of food, well known by the native name of “Quinoa.” 
We now wish to recommend the present species as a hardy an- 
nual, well worthy of a place in any flower-border, on account of 
the fine red-purple colour of its stem, its inflorescence, and the 
variegated (green and purple) of the floral leaves. Our drawing 
was made in the very wet autumn of the past year, 1860, when 
the leaves did not attain the richness of colour which distin- 
guishes them in more favourable seasons. 
Its nearest ally is the Ch. Quinoa above mentioned, which, as 
may be seen by our figure of it, has a very dense terminal 
panicle, of flowers, by no means collected into separate glome- 
rules as in the species before us. This attains a height of three 
to four feet, and flowers in the summer and autumn months. 
Both of these species have white seeds; and the foliage of both 
is said to vary in colour: the Quinoa, usually green, is some- 
times purple or red, and Ch. purpurascens, of which the normal 
state is considered to be red-purple, is of a uniform green under 
some circumstances. 
Fig. 1. Base of a stem with its leaf,—wmat. size. 2. Flower. 3. Pistil:— 
magnified. 
