PENTANDllIA— DIGYNIA. Chenopodium. 11 



3. Ch. rubrum. Red Goosefoot. 



Leaves triangular, somewhat rhomboid, deeply toothed and 

 sinuated. Spikes erect, compound, leafy. Seed very 

 minute. 



Ch. rubrum. Linn. Sp. PL 318. mild. v.\. J300. Fl. Br. 274. 

 Engl. Hot. V.24. ^.1721. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 21. Hook. Scot. 

 84. Ehrh. PI. Of. 83. 



Biitum Pes anserinus dictum. Rail Syn. 154. 



Atriplex sylvestiis latifolia altera. Ger. Em. 328./. 



Pes anserinus. Fuchs. Hist. G52. t. G53. Dod. Pempt. GIG./. Ba- 

 lech. Hist. 542./. 



Sharp-pointed Elite. Pet. H. Brit. t. 8./. 6. 



/3. BlitOj Pes anserinus dicto, similis. Raii Syn. 154. 



Common in waste ground, often in low muddy situations. 



Annual. August. 



Akin to the last, from which it differs in being generally more bushy, 

 with more deeply toothed, or sinuated, leaves, considerably elon- 

 gated at the base. The spikes are more spreading, and are be- 

 set with several small leaves. But the most distinguishing cha- 

 racter, pointed out by Curtis, as well as by Ray in the variety /3, 

 consists in the comparative smallness of the seeds, which in Ch. 

 rubrum are no bigger than grains of common sand. In exposed 

 situations the whole herb assumes a red colour. This species 

 and its allies are said to be poisonous to swine. Botanists have 

 hitherto given the name of racemi, clusters, to the inflorescence 

 of these plants ; but it surely consists rather of compound spikes, 

 in which the Jiowers are aggregate, crowded into little heads or 

 tufts. 



4. Ch. botryodes. Many-spiked Goosefoot. 



Leaves triangular, somewhat toothed; the upper ones 

 bluntish. Spikes erect, compound rounded, leafy. 



Ch. botryodes. Engl. Bat. v. 32. t. 2247. Comp.4\. 



In moist sandy places, near the sea. 



Near Yarmouth. Mr. Lilly Wigg, Between the cliff and the sea 

 at Lowestoft. 



Annual. August, September. 



Stems spreading, or prostrate. Leaves very much smaller than the 

 two last, fleshy, triangular, or hastate, not rhomboid, and very 

 slightly toothed, smooth, frequently red, as are also the copious, 

 compound, rounded, more or less leafy, spikes. Cal. tumid, ob- 

 tuse. Seed small, black and shining. 



5. Ch. miirale. Nettle-leaved Goosefoot. 

 Leaves ovate, acute, many-toothed, shining. Spikes aggie- 

 gate, panicled, cymose, leafless. 



