]2 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Chenopodium. 



Ch. murale. Linn. Sp. PL 318. Wilid. r. 1 . 1301. Fl. Br. 27 A. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 24. t. 1722. Curt. Lond.fasc, 6. t. 20. Hook. 

 Scot. 84. 



Ch. n. 1583. Hall. Hist. v.2. 268. " Probably including also Ch. 

 rubrum.'" Davall. 



Blitum Pes aiiserinus dictum, acutiore folio. Raii Sy72. 154 ; ex- 

 cluding Gerarde's synonym. 



Atriplex, dictus Pes anserinus, alter sive ramosior. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 

 976./. good. 



Thick Shining Elite. Pet. H. Brit. t. 8./. 5. 



In waste ground, about old walls, and by way sides. 



Annual. August, September. 



Stem much branched. Whole plant fetid, of a darkish, slightly 

 glaucous, green, sometimes purplish in the stem and branches. 

 Leaves triangnlar-ovate, sharply and copiously toothed, the teeth 

 rather incurved, or hooked. Panicles sub-axillary and mostly 

 terminal, cymose, composed of numerous spikes or little round 

 leafless heads, of green or glaucous, slightly powdery, Jioioers. 

 Seed black, very minutely dotted, larger than in Ch. rubrum. 

 The panicled cymose inflorescence decidedly distinguishes this 

 from all the foregoing species. 



6. Ch. hyhridum. Maple-leaved Goosefoot. 



Leaves heart-shaped, pointed, with broad angular teeth. 

 Spikes aggregate, panicled, cymose, divaricated, leaf- 

 less. 



Ch. hybridum. Unn. Sp. PI. 3 1 9. Willd. v. 1 . 1303. Fl. Br. 275. 



Engl. Bot. V. 27. t. 1919. Curt. Lond. fasc. 4. t. 23. Hook. 



Scot. 84. 

 Ch. n.l581. Hall. Hist. v.2. 267. 

 Ch. stramonii folio. Dill, in Raii Syn. 154. Vaill. Par. 36. t. 7. 



Atriplex sylvestris, majore anguloso folio. Barrel. Ic. t. 540. 



Maple Elite. Pet. H. Brit. t. 8./. 7. 



In waste ground that is rather moist ; one of the rarer species. 



In Eattersea fields. Curtis. Near Northflcet plentifully. Hudson. 

 On the banks of some watery pits beyond Ely. Sherard. About 

 Colchester. Dale. About Edinburgh ; G. Don. Hooker. Be- 

 tween Ipswich and Dedham. 



Annual. August. 



Herb bright green, smooth, fetid. Stem rather slender, branched 

 and spreading. Leaves broad, taper-pointed, angular rather than 

 toothed j heart-shaped, or ovate, not elongated, at the base. 

 Footstalks slender. Panicles axillary and terminal, cymose, 

 more slender and divaricated than the last ; some of thejlowers 

 stalked and solitary. Seed large, depressed, coarsely dotted, or 

 pitted. 



