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No. 21. 



CHENOPODIUM ANTHELMINTICUM. 



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English Name— WORMSEED GOOSEFOOf. 

 French Name — ^\kserine Vermifuge. 

 German Name — Wurmsamen Gansefuss. 

 Officinal Name — Chenopodium seu Eotrys An- 

 Ihelminticum. 



Vulgar Names — Jerusalem Oak, Wormwood 

 Worm seed, Stinking weed. 



Authorities — Linnaeus, Michaux, Pursh, Schoepf, 

 B. Barton, Mease, Wilkins, Coxe, Thacher, Chap- 

 man, Stoker, Big. seq. W. Bart. Mat. Med. fi^. 44. 



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" Genus Chenopodium — Perlgone simple persistent, 

 caliform,five parted, Stamina five perigyne. Pistil 

 free with a bifid style. Seed single, lenticular, co- 

 vered by the perigone. 



Species Ch< ANTHELMixT^iruM. — Leaves oval-ob- 

 long, sessile, sinuate-toothed r flowers terminal, ses- 

 sile, ill glomerules, forming leafless panicled slender 

 spikes., 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial and branched 

 Stem upright, grooved and branched, branches fasti- 

 glate, giving a shrubby appearance to the whole plant, 

 which rises from two to five feet in height — Leaves 

 sessile, alternate or scattered ; attenuated at both ends, 

 oval or oblong, rather thick, dotted beneath, margin 

 sinuate by large unequal obtuse teeth, nerves very 



conspicuous. 



Flowers very small, numerous and yellowish green 



