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CHENOPODIUM VULVARIA. STINKING GOOSE-FOOT 
Or, OR AC HE. 
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S TNO NT MA, Atriplex foetida. Rharm. Edinb. Bank Ph h p 
119. Atriplex olida. Gerard Emac. p. 327 . Rati Hi/l. p, { 
Blitum foctidum Vulvaria dictum, Raii Synop. p. 156. Atriplex 
®lida five fylveftris foetida. Park. 7 beat. p. 749. Chenopodium 
caule difFufo, foliis obtufe lanceolatis. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 1577, 
Chenopodium olidum. Curt. Flor. Lond. Chenopodium Vulvaria. 
Mudf. Ang. p. 107. Lightf. Scot. p. 149. Withering. Bot. Arr, 
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Clafs Pentandria. Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Riant. 309 
EJf.Gen. Ch. Cat. 5-phyllus, 5-gonus. Cor. o. Sent. 1, lenticulare, 
fuperum. 
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Sp. Ch. C. foliis integerrimis rhomboideo-ovatis, lloribus conglo- 
meratis axillaribus. 
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THE root is annual: the ftems are procumbent, channelled 
branched, and grow from fix to twelve inches in length : the leaves 
are numerous, entire, of an irregular rhomboidal form 
fhaped, veined, of a mealy appearance, and ftand alternately 
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fliort footftalks : the flowers are very fmall, of a light green colour, 
and placed in clutters at the alse of the leaves : the calyx confiits 0^ 
one pentagonal leaf, cut into five pointed concave divifions : tnere^ 
no .corolla: the five filaments are fmall, tapering, about the len | tn I 
the fegments of the calyx, and furnifhed with double round anj^j ' 
the jrermen is nrViir*nlar- <,^A r,„^«,.«.« +,*r^ fUrl^c tprminated \ 
the gerrnen is orbicular, and fupports two ftyles, terminated 
obtufe ftigmata : the feed is lenticular, and is inelofed by the c*J> 
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