380 CHENOPODIACEJE. (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 
§ 1. Ortiiosporujh, Meyer. — Calyx herbaceous (not juicy) in fruit . 
1. B. polymorplium, Meyer. (Pigweed Elite.) Stem 
angled, branched ; leaves triangular-ovate , or with a somewhat wedge- 
form base, thickish, strongly toothed; clusters in compound axillary 
spikes; calyx-lobes 3-5; seed minutely dotted, the margin obtuse. 
(Chenopodium ritbrum, L.) — Moist waste places, E. New England, 
introduced (Oakes), and northward. — A coarse plant, l°-3? high. 
2. B. maritimum, Nutt. (Coast Blite.) Stem angled, 
much branched ; leaves thickish , triangular-lanceolate, tapering below 
into a wedge-shaped base and above into a slender point, sparingly 
and coarsely toothed , the upper linear-lanceolate; clusters scattered in 
axillary leafy spikes; calyx-lobes 3-4; seed shining, the margin 
acute. — Salt marshes, New Jersey to N. England. Aug. 
§ 2. True Blitcm. — Calyx becoming fleshy and at length berry-like. 
3. B. capitatllin, L. (Strawberry Blite.) Stem ascend¬ 
ing, branching; leaves triangular and somewhat halbert-shaped, sm- 
uate-toothed; clusters simple (large), interruptedly spiked, the upper 
leafless; seed smooth, with a narrow sharp margin. — Dry rich ground, 
common in W. New York and northward : indigenous? June. — The 
calyx becomes pulpy and bright red in fruit, when the large clusters 
look like strawberries. — B. virgAtum, L., which has a tumid seed 
with a channelled margin, is probably not in the country. 
7. AGATHOPHiTUM, Moquin. Good King Henry. 
Flowers monoecious or polygamous, all bractless, the fertile and 
sterile intermixed and similar in form. Calyx 5-parted, dry and 
unchanged in fruit; the divisions ovate, not keeled. Sterile flow¬ 
ers with 5 stamens ; filaments very short: the fertile with 2 dis¬ 
tinct awl-shaped styles, the fruit partly covered by the half-open 
calyx. Seed vertical, compressed ; the embryo coiled in a com¬ 
plete ring around the albumen. — A perennial almost smooth herb, 
with an angled stem, halbert-shaped nearly entire leaves, the 
clusters of flowers aggregated in a terminal and nearly leafless 
spike. (Name compounded of ayaOos , good , and (pvrovj plant, 
but what this weed is good for does not appear.) 
1. A. Bonus-Henricus, Moquin. (Chenopbdium, L. Bh- 
tum, Meyer.) —A common plant in the Old World, sparingly natural¬ 
ized in W. New York. July. 
8. ATRIPLEx, Tourn. Orache. 
Flowers moncecio- or dicecio-polygamous ; the staminate and 
perfect (which rarely fructify) bractless, with a 3 - 5-parted calyx 
