30 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 21 
Glabrous annual, much branched from the base, the branches stout, 5-20 cm. long, pros- 
trate or ascending, simple or branched; petioles shorter than the blades; leaf-blades rhombic- 
ovate, orbicular-ovate, or obovate, 0.7-2.5 em. long, rounded to acute at the apex, broadly or 
narrowly cuneate at the base, entire or obscurely sinuate-dentate, rarely hastate, bright- 
green, thick and fleshy, the upper ones little reduced; flowers sessile in dense sessile axillary 
glomerules; calyx herbaceous, shallowly or deeply cleft, the 3-5 lobes obovate, oval, or ovate, 
rounded or obtuse, shorter than the fruit; stamens 1-5; styles short; pericarp green; seed 
vertical, 0.5-0.6 mm. broad, strongly compressed, dark reddish-brown. 
TYPE LocaLity: Marshes of the Saskatchewan, Canada. 
DistriBuTion: Alkaline soil, Manitoba to British Columbia, California, and Colorado, and on 
the coast of Maine; on ballast at Camden, New Jersey; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Hegi, Ill. Fi, f. 544, f. 
XVII. Californica. Perennials, glabrous except on the young parts, these sparsely farinose 
with inflated trichomes. Leaves long-petiolate, the blades deltoid, entire or dentate. 
Glomerules of flowers spicate or paniculate. Calyx-lobes rounded on the back, herbaceous, 
equaling or shorter than the fruit. Stigmas slender, elongate. Seed vertical. 
51. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus L. Sp. Pl. 218. _1753. 
Atriplex Bonus-Henricus Crantz, Inst. 1: 206. 1766. 
Anserina Bonus-Henricus Dumort. Fl. Belg. 21. 1827. 
Blitum Bonus-Henricus Reichenb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 582. 1832. 
Agathophytum Bonus-Henricus Moq. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 1: 291. 1834. 
Orthosporum Bonus-Henricus T. Nees, Gen. Fl. Germ. Dicot. 1: pl. 57. 1835. 
Orthospermum Bonus-Henricus Schur, Verh. Siebenb. Ver. Nat. 4: Anhang 63. 1853. 
Erect or ascending perennial from a thick fleshy root, sparsely farinose, becoming glabrate; 
stems 1.5—-6 dm. high, mostly simple; petioles slender, usually equaling or exceeding the blades; 
leaf-blades broadly deltoid-hastate, 5-12 cm. long, 4.5-9 em. wide, acute or obtuse, entire or 
subsinuate, bright-green; flowers sessile in dense glomerules, these arranged in mostly naked 
paniculate spikes; calyx deeply cleft, the lobes obovate or oblong, rounded or emarginate at 
the apex, often mucronulate, herbaceous, equaling or shorter than the fruit; stamens 5; styles 
elongate; pericarp thick, green, more or less adherent; seed vertical, compressed-globose, 1.5 
mm. broad. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. 
DistR1BuTION: Europe and Siberia; sparingly adventive from Nova Scotia and Quebec to 
Delaware and Iowa. 
ILLUSTRATIONS:. Sturm, Deuts. Fl. 74: pl. 13; Berg, Charakt. f. 223; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
24: pl. 257; Fl. Dan. pl. 579; E. & P. Nat. Pal. 3'*: f. 27, K-O; Britt. & Brown, Ill. FL. f. 1370; ed. 2. 
f. 1689; Schkuhr, Handb. pl. 56; Lam. Tab. Encye. pl. 181; Engl. Bot. pl. 1033; Moss, Cambr. Brit. 
Fl. pl. 155; Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 1: ol. 10, C; Pratt, Fi. Pl. Great Brit. pl. 177, f. 4; Briosi, Atl. Bot. 
f. 312; Benth. Ill. Handb. f. 843; G. T. Stevens, Ill. Guide pl. 35, f. 7; Pammel, Man. Pois. Pl. f. 204; 
Schleyer, Eur. Bek. Pfl. pl. 28; Hegi, Ill. Fl. pl. 95, f. 2; Mull. & Pilling, Deuts. Fl. pi. 174; Fiori & 
Paol. Ic. Fl. Itat. f. 1007. 
52. Chenopodium californicum $. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 48. 1880. 
Chenopodium anthelminticum hastatum Mog. in DC. Prodr. 132: 74. 1849. 
Blitum Bonus-Henricus erosum Mogq. in DC. Prodr. 132: 85. 1849, 
Blitum californicum S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 101. 1874. 
Erect or ascending perennial from a thick elongate fleshy root, sparsely farinose on the 
younger parts, glabrate in age; stems stout, 2-8 dm. high, several from each root, mostly simple; 
petioles slender, those of the lower leaves equaling or exceeding the blades, the uppermost 
leaves subsessile; leaf-blades triangular, 5-11 cm. long and nearly as broad, acute or obtuse, 
hastately lobed at the base, coarsely, deeply, and irregularly laciniate-dentate or sinuate- 
dentate throughout, bright-green, the upper blades much reduced; flowers in few or many- 
flowered glomerules arranged in dense, nearly naked, terminal spikes 6-18 cm. long, the lower 
glomerules often pedunculate and their flowers long-pedicellate; calyx green, herbaceous, 
cleft to about the middle, the lobes broadly oblong, rounded, truncate, or emarginate, shorter 
than the fruit; stamens 5; styles elongate; pericarp adherent; seed vertical, compressed- 
globose, 2 mm. in diameter. 
Type Locauity: California. , . 
DistRIBsUTION: Central and southern California. 
