14 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



Order LXX.— CHENOPODIACE^. 



Flowers small, unisexual or bisexual; calyx inferior, 

 sepals 3-5 ; stamens usually 5 ; ovary i -celled, stigmas 

 2-4; leaves alternate; seed-vessel i -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 opulifoliumy 

 Schrad., with orbicular-rhomboidal leaves, and C. BotrySy 

 L., with sinuate -pinnatifid pubescent -glandular leaves. 

 The remaining species are English, viz.: — C. Vulvaria^ L., 

 2iiid polyspermum, L., with entire leaves, the former mealy, 

 the latter glabrous ; C. album, L., ficifolium, 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. rubru^n^ 

 L., erect, glabrous, usually red-tinted ; C. glaucuifiy L., 

 prostrate, leaves mealy beneath ; and C. Bonus-Henricus, 

 L., Good King Henry, perennial, leaves large, triangular. 



