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Hayden's Rep., 1870, 481; 1871, 492; Fl. Col. 117. Coulter, Hayden's 

 Rep., 1872, 779. 

 Collectors : — Richardson ; 720 Fendler ; Bourgeau ; Lyall ; Hall & Har- 

 bour; 976, 977 Watson; 481 Vasey. 

 § 2. Herbaceous, mostly perennial, somewhat mealy. Calyx not 

 becoming fleshy. Flowers in dense terminal spikes (or axillary in 

 B. glaucum). — § Agathophyton, Moquin. 



3. B. GLAUCUM, Koch. Annual, low, \-l foot high, usually decum- 

 bent, branching, glaucous-mealy, the upper surface of the leaves smooth ; 

 leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, \-\ inch long, obtuse, attenuate to 

 a slender petiole, sinuate-dentate ; flowers clustered in axillary spikes 

 shorter than the leaves ; calyx small, not covering the fruit. — Intro- 

 duced in the Eastern states from Europe, but apparently indigenous on 

 the Saskatchewan and in Colorado in saline localities. 



ChenopodiuiJi glaucum, Linn. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 127. Bromfield in 

 Hook. Journ. Bot., 1848, 211. Carey, Am. Jour. Sci. 2. 7. 169. Moquin, 

 DC. Prodr. 132. 72. Engelm. PL Upp. Miss. 206. Bourgeau, Palliser's 

 Rep. 260. Gray, Manual, 407. Porter, Fl. Col. 117. 



Bl'itum glaucum. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 608. 



Collectors: — Drummond ; Bourgeau; 482 Vasey ; Greene; 254 Wolf. 



4. B. Bonus-Henricus, C. A. Meyer. Stout, erect, 1-2 feet high, 

 mostly simple; leaves broadly triangular -hastate, 2-3 inches long, 

 obtuse or acute, hollowed at base, subsinuate or entire ; flowers some- 

 what densely paniculately spiked ; calyx deeply parted, nearly equalling 

 the fruit ; stamens 5 ; styles 2-5 ; pericarp adherent ; seed obtusely 

 margined. — European ; scarcely introduced. 



Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus, Linn. Pursh, 197. Torrey, Fl. U. S. 294. 

 Blitum Bonus-Henricus. C. A. Meyer, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 1. 11. Moquin, DC. 

 Prodr. 132. 84. Gray, Manual, 408. 



5. B. Californicum. Resembling the last, but the leaves acumi- 

 nate, sharply and unequally sinuate-dentate ; calyx more or less deeply 

 5-cleft, nearly enveloping the fruit ; seed less compressed, nearly glo- 

 bose, |-1 line broad; flowers often pedicelled, loosely clustered. — 

 California, from the Sacramento to Fort Tejon and San Diego. Known 

 in the southern part of the state as " Soap-plant." 



Bouhieva anthelmintica. Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 387. 



Chenopodium anthelmintician, var. (1) hastatum. Moquin, DC. Prodr. 132. 74, 



Blitum Bonus-Henricus, var. erosum. Moquin, DC. Prodr. 13-'. 85. 



Blitum Bonus-Henricus. Torrey, Pac. R. R. Rep. 4. 129 ; same, 7. 18 ; Bot. 



Mex. Bound. 182. 

 Blitum ruhrum f Torr. Bot. Wilkes's Exp. 437. 



Collectors : — Coulter ; Fremont ; Bigelow ; Parry ; Torrey ; 104 Xantus ; 

 244, 1065 Brewer ; 448 Cooper ; 800 Kellogg & Harford. 



