432 CHENOPODIACEAE 



Coiuinon near salt marshes and alnuulant aloni? interior streams; natu- 

 ralized from tropical America ; mostly autumnal. Great Valley and Coast 

 Ranges to Southern California. 



Ref. — ('HKNiiPoi>irM .\.\IBR0SI0IDES L. Sp. PI. 219 (175.3), type loc. Mexico. 



6. C. anthelminticum L. Wormseed. Very close to the preceding; some- 

 times biennial or perennial; herbage light green, glandular-puberulent and 

 highly aromatic ; leaves sinuate-serrate or the lower sometimes laeiniate- 

 pinnatifid, % to 3 inches long; inflorescence a terminal mostly leafless panicle 

 of dense but elongated slender spikes; sepals not carinate. 



Not so common as the last, but appearing to hybridize with it. Naturalized 

 from tropical America. Coast Ranges and Sacramento Valley. 



Ref. — Chen'opodium .wthelminticum L. Sp. PI. 220 (17.53), type loc. Pennsylvania. 



7. C. carinatum R. Br. Stems several from the base, ascending or de- 

 cumbent, 5 to 13 inches long; herbage puberulent, the under side of the leaves 

 with minute resin-globules; leaves ovate, sinuate-erenate, 3 to 6 lines long, 

 on slender petioles y^ to as long; flowers small, the clusters in all the axils; 

 stamen usually 1. 



Naturalized from Australia. lone ; Jackson ; etc. 



Ref. — (iHE.voPODiiiM CARINATUM R. Br. Prod. 407 (ISIO), type loc. Australia. 



8. C. californicum Wats. Soap Plant. Stout, erect or decumbent at base, 

 li/o to 2\'2 feet high from a very large carrot-like root; herbage green, scarcely 

 at all mealy; leaves broadly triangular, truncate or cordate at base, or sub- 

 hastate, sharply and unequally sinuate-dentate, II/2 to SVii inches long; flowers 

 in dense clusters in a terminal spike, leafless or leafy at the very base ; calyx 

 campanulate, barely exceeding 1 line ; achene with persistent pericarp, sub- 

 globose or somewhat compressed, exserted, % to 1 line broad; embryo com- 

 pletely annular. 



Stream lieds and moist slopes or swales in open foothills: Coast Ranges; 

 Sierra Nevada foothills; south to San Diego Co. Apr. -May. The root is grated 

 on a rock by the native tribes and used as a soap. 



Locs. — Marysville Buttes, Jcpson: Napa Co., Jcpson ; Marin Co., Jepson; Antioch, Chessnut 

 4' Drew; Berkeley, Jepson; Pacific Grove, Tidestrom; San Luis Obispo, Eoadhouse ; Antelope 

 Valley, Davy 2270; San Bernanlino, Parish 4.379; Cajon Pass, north slope, Hall G215; Menifee, 

 Alice King. 



Refs. — Chenopodutm californicum Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 48 (1880); Blocbman, Erythea, 2: 

 10 (1894) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 177 (1901). BUtnm californicum Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 9: 101 (1S74'). typo from California. 



9. C. rubrum L. Red Goosefoot. Stem angled, erect, 1 to 2 feet high ; herb- 

 age green or nearly so; leaves lanceolate-oblong to broadly ovate, coarsely 

 sinuate, 1 to 2 inches long; flowers numerous in dense short axillary spikes; 

 calyx-lobes 2 to 4, rather fleshy; stamens 1 or 2 ; achene shining, the margin 

 acute. 



Sparingly naturalized from Europe, in low and marshy lands: Lower 

 Sacramento River; Alvarado jMarshes; Nigger Slough and Hallona. Los 

 Angeles Co. Sept. 



Ref. — Chen-opoiium rubrum L. Sp. PI. 218 (17.i3), type European. 



10. C. capitatum Asch. Strawberry Elite. Branched at base with erect 

 or ascending stems 5 to 15 inches high ; leaves hastate-triangular or -lanceolate, 

 irregularly toothed or nearly entire, % to 2 inches long, on margined petioles 

 1/2 to as long ; flower clusters large, in interrupted spikes, leafy below ; stamens 

 1 to 5 ; calyx berry-like in fruit. 



Sierra Co., ace. Bot. Cal.; Sisson, Jejjson. North to Alaska, east to the 

 Atlantic. 



Refs. — Chenofodium capitatum Asch. Fl. Brandenli. 572 (18(54). lilHum eapilatum L. 

 Sp. PI. 4 (1753), type European. 



Jepson, PI. Cal. vol. 1, pp. 369-432. 31 Dec. 1913. 



