10 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Chenopodium. 



Ch. Bonus Henricus. Linn. Sp. PL 318. M'illd. v. 1. 1299. Fl, 

 Br. 272. Engl. Bot. v. 15. t. 1033. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 17. 

 Hook. Scot. 83. Ft. Dan. t.579. Bull. Fr. t. 317. 



Ch. n. 1578. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 266. 



Blitum perenne, Bonus Henricus dictum. Raii Srjn. 156. 



Bonus Henricus. Trag. Hist.3\7. f. Ger. Em. 329. f. Brunf. Herb. 

 V. 1. 63./. Camer. Epit. 368./. 



Wild Spinage. Pet. H. Brit. t. 7.f. 12. 



In waste ground^ and by road sides^ frequent. 



Perennial. Maij, June. 



Root branching, fleshy. Herb dark green, nearly smooth. Stems 

 a foot high, furrowed, ascending, leafy, each terminating in a 

 tapering, compound, crowded cluster, or spike, of numerous 

 gveenjlowers ; their stalks sometimes unctuous and mealy. Cal. 

 bordered with an abrupt white membrane. Styles spreading, 

 often 3. Stam. wanting in some flowers. Seed kidney-shaped. 



This, our only perennial Chenopodium, may be eaten, when young, 

 like spinach, and is cultivated for the table in some parts of Lin- 

 colnshire. It is insipid and mucilaginous, rather mawkish 3 and 

 soon becomes tough and fibrous. 



2. Ch. urbicum. Upright Goosefoot. 



Leaves triangular, toothed. Spikes crowded, lobed, very 

 long and straight, approaching the stem, almost leafless, 



Ch. urbicum. Linn. Sp. PI. 318. Willd. v.\.\ 299. Fl. Br. 273. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 10, t. 7\7. Hook. Scot. 83. ^ ^ 



Ch. erectum, foliis triangularibus dentatis, spicis e foliorum alis 

 plurimis longis erectis tenuibus. Dill, in Raii Sijn. 155. 



Ch. latifolium, minus ramosum, florum petiolis longissimis, ex fo- 

 liorum alis confertim enascentibus. Buxb. Hallens. 69. 1. 1, good. 



Atriplex sylvestris latifolia, sive Pes anserinus. Ger. £m.328? /. 



Broad-pointed Blite. Pet. H. Brit. t. 8./. 8. 



On dunghills, and ditch banks, by way sides. 



Common in St. George's fields, Southwark 5 also in several parts 

 of Norfolk, and at Gorton, near Lowestoft, Suffolk. 



Annual. August, September. 



Root fibrous. Stem erect, not much branched, leafy, angular, 

 furrowed, often red. Leaves stalked, triangular, acute, bright 

 green, smooth, unequally and sharply toothed, a little elongated 

 at the base, 1 J or 2 inches in length. Spikes axillary, and ter- 

 minal, erect, straight, lobed, and often branched, closely pressed 

 to the stem as they advance to maturity, always shorter than the 

 leaves. Ft. sessile, solitary, or aggregate, green. Styles 2 or 

 3, imperfect in some flowers. Seed roundish, the size of Rape- 

 .seed, being, as Mr. Curtis first remarked, 5 times iis large as 

 that of the following, by which these two species may clearly be 

 distinguished, though they have often been confounded. 



