28 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 21 
leaf-blades oblong to ovate-oblong, 1-3 cm. long, those of the inflorescence somewhat reduced, 
coarsely sinuate-pinnatifid with obtuse lobes, or the uppermost coarsely crenate-lobed, obtuse 
at the apex, obtuse to ctmeate at the base, yellowish-green, densely beset with yellow glands 
and short-villous on both surfaces; flowers sessile in dense many-flowered axillary clusters, or 
in short leafy axillary spikes 1 cm. long or less; calyx 0.6 mm. high, densely covered with 
yellow glands, the lobes oblong, acute, usually cucullate or carinate, only partially enclosing 
the fruit at maturity; pericarp very thin, slightly adherent; seed vertical, 0.5 mm. broad, 
dark reddish-brown, the margin obtuse. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Tasmania. 
DistRiBurion: Australia; naturalized in Massachusetts, Missouri, Texas, and northern Cali- 
fornia, and in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: F', Muell, Ic. Austr. Sals. pl. 32; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: pl. 252, f. 8-10. 
XV. Glauca. Plants erect or prostrate, copiously farinose with whitish inflated hairs. 
Leaf-blades oblong to broadly rhombic, dentate. Glomerules of flowers axillary or in short 
spikes. Calyx-lobes rounded on the back, imperfectly enclosing the fruit, herbaceous. Seed 
vertical. 
46. Chenopodium farinosum (S. Wats.) Standley, sp. nov. 
Chenopodium murale farinosum S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 97. 1874. 
Erect or ascending annual, much branched from the base, the branches very stout, succu- 
lent, 1-4 dm. long, angled and striate, glabrous; petioles half to two thirds as long as the 
blades; leaf-blades rhombic or deltoid-rhombic, 1.8-6 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded 
at.the apex, broadly cuneate or rounded at the base, 3-nerved from the base, succulent, green 
and glabrate on the upper surface, densely farinose beneath when young, glabrate in age, 
irregularly repand-dentate or sinuate-dentate, the teeth usually low, acute or acutish; glom- 
erules in dense spikes, these axillary and in very dense, leafy, narrow, terminal panicles, the 
leaves of the glabrous inflorescence reduced; calyx herbaceous, green, deeply cleft, the lobes 
3-5, rounded, imperfectly enclosing the fruit; stamens 1-5; stigmas very short; pericarp green, 
free; seed usually vertical, dark reddish-brown, 1 mm. long, the margin obtuse. 
Type LOCALITY: Near San Francisco, California. 
Distrisution: In wet soil and on beaches, along the coast of California from San Francisco 
to Los Angeles County; also in western South America. 
47. Chenopodium glaucum L. Sp. Pl. 220. 1753. 
Atriplex glauca Crantz, Inst. 1: 207. 1766. 
Chenopodium ambiguum R. Br. Prodr. 407. 1810. 
Blitum glaucum Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 608. 1837. 
Orthospermum glaucum Opiz, Seznam 71, 1852. 
Agathophytum glaucum Fuss, FI. Transsylv. 553. 1866. 
Botrys glauca Nieuwl. Am. Midl. Nat. 3: 275. 1914. 
Erect or prostrate annual, branched throughout, the branches stout, 1-4.5 cm. long, 
glabrous, often reddish; petioles slender, equaling or shorter than the blades; leaf-blades oblong 
to ovate-oblong, 1-5 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, narrowly or broadly cuneate at the 
base, sinuate-angled or sinuate-dentate, the teeth obtuse or acute, pale-green and glabrous on 
the upper surface, densely farinose beneath; flowers sessile in dense glomerules, these arranged 
in slender. interrupted, axillary and terminal, simple or paniculate, naked spikes 1.5-4 cm. 
long, the inflorescence glabrous; calyx herbaceous, deeply cleft, the lobes 5 or rarely 3 or 4, 
obovate-oblong, obtuse, imperfectly enclosing the fruit; stamens 5, or 1-3 in the lateral flowers; 
stigmas short; pericarp green, free; seed vertical or horizontal, 0.6 mm. broad, dark reddish- 
brown, nearly smooth, the margin acutish. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION: Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia; Greenland; adventive from New Bruns- 
wick to Virginia and Nebraska. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Sturm, Deuts. Fl. 75: 61. 1; Fl. Dan. pl. 1151; Engl. Bot. £1. 1454; Britt. & Brown, 
Til. Fl. f. 1360; ed. 2. f. 1679; Reichenb. Ic. Fi, Germ. 24: ph, 248; Moss, Cambr. Brit. Fi. pl. 170; CG. 
T. Stevens, Ill. Guide pl. 35, 7 9; Hegi, Ill. Fl. f. 545, f-o; Benth. Ill. Handb. f. 838; Fiori. & Paol. 
Ic. Fl. Ital. f. 1014; Pratt, FI. Pl. Great Brit. pl. 177, %. 2; Bull. Mich. Exp. Sta. 267: f. 50. 
