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N. ORD—CHENOPODIACEE, 440 
GENUS.—CH ENOPODIUM,* LINN. 
SEX. SYST.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
CHENOPODIUM  . 
ANTHELMINTICUM. * 
WORMSEED. 
SYN.—CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES, VAR. ANTHELMINTICUM, GRAY; 
C. ANTHELMINTICDM, LINN.; C. SUFFRUTICOSUM, WILLD.; AMBRINA 
AMBROSIOIDES, SPACH; ORTHOSPORUM ANTHELMINTICUM, R. BR. 
COM. NAMES.— AMERICAN WORMSEED, JERUSALEM OAK,} STINK- 
WEED; (FR.) CHENOPODE ANTHELMINTIQUE, L’ANSERINE VER- 
MIFUGE; (GER.) WURMSAAMEN GANSEFUSS, AMERICANISCHER 
WURMSAAMEN. 
A TINCTURE OF THE SEEDS OF CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES, VAR. ANTHEL- 
MINTICUM, GRAY. 
Description.—This smoothish, more or less viscid-glandular, and pleasantly- 
aromatic annual, grows to a height of about 2 feet. Stem erect, stout, angular, 
and grooved, Leaves slightly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, repand-toothed or some- 
times the lower almost lobed, the upper entire and tapering at both ends. /zflor- 
escence in numerous simple, slender, elongated, more or less leafy or leafless 
spike-like racemes; flowers sessile, glomerulate, perfect, and bractless. Calyx 
5-cleft ; Zobes ovate, pointed, not appendaged nor keeled. Stamens 5; filaments — 
filiform ; axthers globular, 2-celled. Ovary covered on the top with small oblong 
stalked glands; styles 2 to 3, stigmatic by a fringed inner surface. /7wzt perfectly 
enlosed in the calyx, obtusely angled; seed lenticular, smooth and shining; éesta 
crustaceous. mbéryo forming about three-fourths of a ring around the mealy 
albumen. 
Chenopodiaceze.—This large family of homely and more or less succulent 
herbs furnishes to North American Botany 15 genera, comprising 90 species and 
15 varieties. Leaves mostly alternate, exstipulate, and bractless. /Vowers minute, 
greenish; calyx free, imbricated in the bud. Stamens as many as the lobes of the 
calyx or sometimes fewer; //aments inserted opposite the calyx-lobes or upon 
their base. Ovary 1-celled; styles or stigmas 2, rarely 3 or 5. Fruit a 1-celled 
urticle or rarely an achenium. mdryo coiled into a ring, conduplicate or Spiral; 
albumen mealy or sometimes wanting, 
* Xiv, chen, a goose; 7%s, fous, a foot; from a fancied fesemshlance | in the leaves. 
+ This name belongs to C. aes Linn, 
