114 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
Order LXX.—CHENOPODIACEZ. 
Flowers small, unisexual or bisexual; calyx inferior, 
sepals 3-5; stamens usually 5; ovary I-celled, stigmas 
2-4; leaves alternate; seed-vessel 1-seeded, frequently 
enclosed in the swollen calyx. A large order of incon- 
spicuous herbs, widely distributed ; not alpine. 
I. CHENOPODIUM, L. 
Flowers small, bisexual, without bracts; stem angular ; 
seed-vessel a membranous utricle, often enclosed in the 
persistent calyx. 
All the species of Goosefoot are weeds (usually an- 
nual) in cultivated land or waste places in the lowlands. 
The only Swiss species not English are C. opulfolium, 
Schrad., with orbicular-rhomboidal leaves, and C. Botrys, 
L., with sinuate-pinnatifid pubescent-glandular leaves. 
The remaining species are English, viz.:—C. Vulvarza, L., 
and polyspermum, L., with entire leaves, the former mealy, 
the latter glabrous; C. album, L., fictfoliéum, Sm., and 
urbicum, L., erect, mealy, with more or less toothed or 
lobed leaves, distinguished by the form of the leaf, 
deltoid-ovate in the first, oblong-hastate in the second, 
and triangular in the third; C. hybridum, L., and murale, 
L., glabrous, erect, with toothed or lobed leaves, acumi- 
nate in the former, deltoid-ovate in the latter; C. rubrum, 
L., erect, glabrous, usually red-tinted; C. glaucum, L., 
prostrate, leaves mealy beneath; and C. Lonus-Henricus, 
L., Good King Henry, perennial, leaves large, triangular. 
