12 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Chenopodium. 



Ch.murale. Linn. Sp. PL 3\8. Willd.vA. 1301. FLBr.27A, EngL 

 Bot. V.24. t. 1722. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. i. 20. Hook. Scot. 84. 



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

 ruhrum:" Davall. 



Blitum Pes anserinus dictum, acutiore folio. Rail Syn. 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.S.f. 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 triangular-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, flowers. 

 Seed black, very minutely dotted, larger than in C/l ruhrum. 

 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, leafless. 



Ch. hvbridum. Linn. Sp. PL 319. mild. v. 1 . 1303. Fl. Br. 275. 



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



Scot. 84. 

 Ch. n. 1581. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 267. 

 Ch. stramonii folio. Dill, in Rail Syn. 154. Vaill. Par. 36. f. 7. 



f.2. 

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

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



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



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

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

 Colchester. JDaie. About Edinburgh 3 G. Don. HooAer. Be- 

 tween Ipswich and Dedham. 



Annual. August. , 1 , ,1 



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

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

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

 Footstalks slender. Panicles axillary and terminal, cymose, 

 more slender and divaricated than tlie last ; some of thQflmcers 

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

 pitted. 



