PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Chenopodium. 15 



Garosmus. Dod. Pctnpt. 6\6.f. 



Stinking Orrach. Pet. H. Brit. t.7.f.\]. 



In waste ground, especially among sand or rubbish near the sea. 



Annual. August. 



Root small. Stems several, branched, spreading or prostrate. Whole 

 herb of a dull greyish green, covered with a greasy mealiness, 

 which, when touched, exhales a strong, permanent, nauseous, 

 odour, like stale salt-fish. Leaves stalked, acute, entire, ovate, 

 or slightly rhomboid, not an inch long. Fl. small, in oblong in- 

 terrupted spikes. Seed dotted. 



11. Q\\. polyspermuyn. Round-leaved Goosefoot. 



Leaves ovate, obtuse, entire. Stem prostrate. Clusters cy- 

 mose, divaricated, leafless. 



Ch. polyspermum. Linn.Sp.PL32]. fVilld. v. \ .1305. Fl.Br.278. 

 Engl.Bot. v.2\. t. 1480. 



Blitum polyspermum. Matth. ed. Bauh. 358. f. 



Allseed Blite. Pet. H. Brit. t. 7.f. 10. 



On waste ground, but not common. 



In Cornwall. F. Borone. 



Annual. Juhj, August. 



Root tapering. Steins several, quite prostrate, leafy, roundish, or 

 somewhat angular, various in length, scarcely branched. Leaves 

 stalked, ovate, elliptical, or roundish, generally very obtuse, or 

 slightly emarginate, entire, smooth, of a deep grass green. Clus- 

 ters axillary, compound, large and spreading, without any small 

 leaves at their subdivisions. Seed conspicuous, black, shining, 

 kidney-shaped, minutely dotted, which last character cannot be 

 seen till the pellicle is removed. 



12. Q\\. acutifolhnn. Sharp Entire-leaved Goosefoot. 



Leaves ovate, acute, entire. Stem erect. Clusters spiked, 

 compound, elongated, erect, partly leafy ; lower ones 

 somewhat cymose. 



Ch. acutifolium. Engl. Bot.v.2]. ^.1481. Conip. 42. 



Ch. polyspermum. Curt.Lond.fasc.2. t.l7. With.273. Rel/i.\02. 



Sibth. 89. Purton v. 3. 24. Hook. Scot. 83 ? 

 Ch. n. 1576. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 266. 

 Ch. Betse folio, Raii Syn. 157. 



Atriplex sylvestris, sive Polyspermon. Ger. Em. 325. f. 

 Blitum minus. Dod. Peinpt. 617 .f. 

 B. sylvestre. Camer. Epit. 237./. 



B. erectius, sive tertium Tragi. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 967. f. 

 In cultivated as well as waste ground, in several parts of Great 



Britain. 



