294 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. atriplex. 



opposite, oblonsi-subrhornboid, very entire, Willd. Spec, 

 IV. p. 557. MuhL Cat, p. 100, Roem.^SchulL 

 VI. p. 276. 



Hab- In New- Jersey. Muhlenberg. 



P iLrsh remarks that he never saw this plant growing 

 wild in North-America. 



195. CHENOPODIUM. L, 



Calyx 5-parted, obtusely pentangular. Corolla 0. 

 S^yle deeply bifid. Seed lenticular, horizontal, partly 

 covered bv the closing calyx. Gen. pi. 435. Nutt, 

 Gen, I. p.' 198. Juss. p. 85. Lam. Ill, t. 181. 

 Roem. 'd* Schult, Gen. 1139. Nat. Ord. Atri- 

 VLicES Juss, Ckenopode^ De Cand, Goose- 

 foot, 



1. C. Bonus Henricus L. : leaves triangular-hastate, 

 ver\ entire ; spikes compound, terminal and axillary, erect, 

 leafless. Wi 1 1 d. Spec. I. p. 1 299. SmitkFl. Brit. I. p. 

 S72, Eng. Bot. t. 1033. P ur s h Fl. \. \>. Id7, Muh L 

 Cat, p. 28. R em. <^ Schult. VI. p. 252. 



P.oot perennial. Stem about a foot high, branched below, striate; 

 a little pulverulent. Leaves alternate, large, dark green, 

 somewhat sagittate. S/ii/ces pedunculate. Flowers green, 

 polygamous ; perfect and pistilliferous intermixed. Style 

 2— 3- cleft. 

 Kab. In New- York and Maryland. June. Mu h I en b erg. 



Good King Henry, 

 I have never seen North-American specimens of this plant. 

 It is comm.on in Europe. 



1,Z, rhoml'ifolmm M uhL: leaves triangular-rhombic, 

 acute, repandly -toothed; racemes axillary, erect, leafless; 

 bracts minute, inflexed. IV Hid. Enum. Hort, Berol, I. po 

 ^89. Muhl,Cat,p,2^. R oem. <^^ Schul t. Vl. T^. 25Q 



i?oor annual. Leaves acutely toothed; upper ones lanceolate,, 

 toothed, cuneate at the base. Racemes simple, shorter than 

 the petioles. Wi lid. 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. June. Muhlenberg, 



Resembles C. mura/f, but differs in the infiorcGcen^e and 

 form of the leaves. 



3. C. album L, : leaves rhomboid-ovate, erose, entire at 

 the base ; upper ones oblong, very entire ; racemes branched^ 

 somewhat leafy ; seed smooth. Willd. Spec I. p. 1302. 

 Eag. Bot. t. nrS, Pursh 



