PENTANDRIA— 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. 1. 1300. Fl. Br. 274. 

 Engl Bot. V. 24. t. 1721. Curt. Land. fuse. G. ^21. Hook. Scot. 

 84. Ehrh. PL Of. S3. 



Blitum Pes anserinus dictum. Raii Stjn. 154. 



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



Pes anserinus. Fuclis. Hist. 652. t. 652. Dad. Pernpt. 6\6.f. Da- 

 lech. Hist. 542./. 



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



/3. Blito, Pes anserinus dicto, similis. Raii Stjn. 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 Kay 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 racenii, clusters, to the inflorescence 

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

 in which ih^Jiowers are aggregate, crowded into little heads or 

 tufts. 



4. Ch. hotryodes. Many-spiked Goosefoot. 

 Leaves tr'anirular, somewhat toothed ; the ujiper ones 



bluntish. S})ikes erect, compound, rounded, leafy. 



Ch. botryodes. EngL Bot. v. 32. t. 2241 . Comp.W. 



In moist sandy places, near the sea. 



Near \';irmouth. Mr. LUly fi'igg. Between the clitV and tlx sea 

 at Lowestoft. 



Animal. August, Se])tcmhev. 



Stems sj)reading, or prostrate. Leaves very much smaller than the 

 two last, flcsliv, triangular, or hastate, not rhomboid, and vory 

 slightly tootlied, smooth, frequently red, as are also the eo|)i()us, 

 compound, rounded, more or less leafy, sj)ikes. Cal. tumid, ob- 

 tuse. Seed small, black and sliining. 



5. Ch. inuralc. Nettle-leaved Goosefoot. 



Leaves ovate, acute, many-tootlied, sliining. Spikes aggre- 

 gate, panicled, cymosc, leafless. 



