916 CHENOPODIACEE. (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 
Synopsis. 
Tre I. CYCLOLOBE A, — Embryo curved like a ring around the albumen. 
1. CHENOPODIUM. Calyx 3 - 5-parted, the lobes commonly keeled in fruit. Seed horizontal, 
rarely vertical. à 
2. ATRIPLEX. Flowers monocious. Calyx of the sterile flowers 5-parted, of the fertile 
flower none. Ovary enclosed in a pair of separate at length coriaceous bracts. Radicle 
inferior. 
8. OBIONE. Bracts of the fertile flower united. Radicle superior. 
4. SALICORNIA. Flowers 3 together, lodged in excavations of the thickened joints of the 
leafless stem. 
Tae II. SPIROLOBEJE. — Embryo spirally coiled, with little or no albumen. 
Seed horizontal. 
5. CHENOPODINA. Calyx 5-parted, not keeled. Leaves terete, fleshy. 
6. SALSOLA. Calyx at length transversely winged. Leaves spiny. 
1. CHENOPODIUM, L. Picwerp. GOOSEFOOT. 
Calyx 5- (rarely 3-4-) parted, bractless, the lobes mostly keeled. Stamens 
5, the filaments filiform. Styles 2-3, distinct, or united at the base. Utricle 
depressed, enclosed in the globose or 5-angled calyx. Seed horizontal (rarely 
vertical) lenticular. Embryo forming a more or less perfect ring around the 
copious mealy albumen. — Glandular or powdery-coated herbs, with alternate 
leaves, and clusters of small greenish flowers disposed in panicled spikes- 
* Annuals. 
1. C. Boscianum, Moq. Stem erect, with angular branches; leaves 
small, spreading, lanceolate-linear, very acute, entire, or the lower ones some- 
what toothed, more or less mealy and whitened beneath; spikes loose, leafy ; 
seed acute on the margins, slightly roughened, shining, enclosed in the acute- 
angled calyx.— Carolina, Bosc. — Stem slender, 2° high. Leaves 5” - 12" long, 
on petioles 2" — 3" long. Calyx-lobes elliptical-ovate, acutish. 
2. C. album, L. Stem erect, branched, slightly furrowed ; leaves ascend- 
ing, rhombic-ovate, acute at the base, toothed; the upper ones lanceolate 
entire, more or less coated with a white powder; spikes panicled; the 
clusters scattered or crowded, nearly leafless; seed enclosed in the 5-angl 
calyx, acute on the margins, smooth and shining. — Varies (C. viride, L.) 
nearly entire and less mealy leaves, and the larger clusters more $ i 
Cultivated grounds, Florida, and northward. July- Sept. — Stem 2° -6° high - 
Petioles long and slender. 
8. C. murale, L. Stem ascending, branched; leaves long-petioled, ovat 
rhombic, acute, unequally and sharply toothed, bright green on both sides; 5 
nder, spreading, corymbose, scarcely exceeding the leaves; seed not : 
acute on the margins, nearly enclosed in the slightly angled calyx. Waste 
places, Florida, and northward. — Stem 6/- 18' high. 
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