CHENOPODIACE^. (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.; 433 



clusters simple {large), interruptedly spiked, the upper leafless ; stamens 1 - 5 ; 

 calyx berry-like in fruit ; seed ovoid, flattish, smooth, with a very narrow 

 margin. (Blitum capitatum, L.) — Dry rich ground, along the Great Lakes, 

 northward and westward. The calyx becomes pulpy and bright red in fruit, 

 v/hen the large clusters look like strawberries. (Eu.) 



§4. Annual, not mealy, hut more or less glandular-pubescent, aromatic ; calyx 

 2-3-parted, dry in fruit; seed often vertical ; embryo not a complete ring. 



C. B6trys, L. (Jerusalem Oak. Feather Geranium.) Glandular- 

 pubescent and viscid ; leaves slender-petioled, oblong, obtuse, siuuate-piuuat- 

 itid ; racemes c ymose-di verging, loose, leafless ; fruit not perfectly enclosed. — 

 Widely introduced. (Nat. from Eu.) 



C. AMBRosioiDES, L. (MEXICAN Tea.) Smoothish ; leaves slightly peti- 

 oled, oblong or lanceolate, repand-toothed or nearly entire, the upper tapering 

 to both ends; spikes densely flowered, leaf j, or intermixed with leaves; fruit 

 perfectly enclosed in the calyx. — Waste places, common throughout our 

 range, especially southward. (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



Var. ANTHELMiNTicuM, Gray. (Wormseed.) Leaves more strongly 

 toothed, the lower sometimes almost laciniate-pinnatifid ; spikes more elon- 

 gated, mostly leafless. — From Long Island and southward, west to Wise, and 

 Tex. (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



4. KOUBIEVA, Moquin. 



Flowers minute, perfect or pistillate, solitary or 2 - 3 together in the axils. 

 Calyx urceolate, 3 - 5-toothed, becoming enlarged and saccate, contracted at 

 the apex and enclosing the fruit. Stamens 5, included ; styles 3, exserted. 

 Fruit membranaceous, compressed, glandular-dotted. Seed vertical. Embryo 

 annular. — Perennial glandular herb, with alternate pinnatifid leaves. 



R. .MULTfpiDA, Moq. Prostrate or ascending, branching and leafy; leaves 

 lanceolate to linear (i- H' long), deeply pinnatifid with narrow lobes ; fruiting 

 calyx obovate. (Chenopodium multifidum, L.) — Sparingly introduced in the 

 Atlantic States. (Adv. from S. Amer.) 



5. ATRIPLEX, Toum. Orache. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious ; the staminate like the flowers of Cheno- 

 podium, but sterile by the abortion of the pistil ; the fertile consisting simply 

 of a naked pistil enclosed between a pair of appressed foliaceous bracts, which 

 are enlarged in fruit, and sometimes united. Seed vertical. Embryo coiled 

 into a ring around the albumen. In one section, including the Garden Orache, 

 there are some fertile flowers with a calyx, like the staminate, but without 

 stamens, and with horizontal seeds. — Herbs (ours annuals) usually mealy or 

 Gcurfy with bran-like scales, with spiked-clustered flowers ; in summer and 

 ^.utumn. (The ancient Latin name, a corruption of the Greek, arpdcpa^LS.) 



A. r6seum, L. Hoary-mealy; leaves short-petioled or the upper sessile, 

 rhombic-ovate or oblong with a wedge-shaped base, coarsely sinuate-tootlied ; 

 fertile flowers mostly clustered in the axils ; fruiting bracts broad, often cut- 

 toothed and warty. — Sparingly introduced at the east. (Adv. from Eu.) 



1. A. patulum, L. Erect or prostrate (1-4° high), dark green and 



glabrous or somewhat scurfy ; leaves narrowly lanceolate-hastate (1 -4' long), 



the lower sometimes opposite, entire or sparingly sinuate-dentate, petioled, 



tlie upper lanceolate to linear ; flowers clustered in rather slender spikes, the 



two kinds together or separate ; fruiting bracts ovate-triangular or rhoml)ic- 



hastate, entire or toothed, often murieate on the back, united to near the 



