576 CHENOPODIACEAE. 
1. Roubieva multifida (L.) Moq. Cut- 
leaved Goosefoot. Roubieva. 
(Fig. 1374.) 
Chenopodium multifidum U,. Sp. Pl. 220. 1753. 
Roubieva multifida Moq. Ann. Sci. Nat. (II.) 1: 
293. pl. 10. 1834. 
Usually much branched, very leafy, pros- 
trate, or the branches ascending, 6’—18’ long. 
Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate or linear- 
oblong in outline, 14-114’ long, 114’/-4’’ wide, 
deeply pinnatifid into linear-oblong acute en- 
tire or toothed lobes; flowers 1-5 together in 
the axils, sessile, less than %’’ broad, some 
perfect, some pistillate; fruiting calyx obovoid, 
obtuse, 3-nerved and strongly reticulate-veined, 
44’ thick; utricle compressed. 
In waste places and ballast, southern New York 
to Virginia. Naturalized or adventive from tropi- 
cal America. June-Sept. 
2) BLITUM L. Spa ele wee 
Annual glabrous or sparingly pubescent succulent branching herbs, with alternate has- 
tate petioled rather light green leaves. Flowers small, green, or reddish, aggregated in glo- 
bose axillary sessile heads, or the upper heads forming an interrupted spike. Calyx 2-5- 
lobed, becoming pulpy and bright red in fruit. Stamens 1-5. Pericarp separating from 
the seed. Seed vertical, shining. Embryo a complete ring in the mealy endosperm. 
[The classical name of orache. ] 
One or perhaps two species, natives of North America and Europe. 
1. Blitum capitatum I. Strawberry Blite. (Fig. 1375.) 
Blitum capitatum V,. Sp. Pl. 2. 1753. \ 
Chenopodium capitatum Aschers. F1. Brand. 572. 1864. 
Stem ascending, erect, or prostrate, 6’-2° long, 
commonly much branched, the branches ascend- ) 
ing. Leaves usually longer than wide, 114/-3/ 
long, rather thin, sinuate-dentate, or the upper or 
sometimes all of them entire, cordate or reniform, 
the apex and basal lobes acute or acuminate; 
lower petioles often longer that the blades; heads 
sessile in the axils and on the sides of the upper 
part of the stem or branches, 2//-3// in diameter 
in flower, becoming bright red and 5//-8’ in di- 
ameter in fruit, and then somewhat resembling 
strawberries; seed compressed, ovate, enclosed by 
the calyx, or when quite mature slightly exserted. 
In dry soil, Nova Scotia to Alaska, south to New 
Jersey, Illinois, Minnesota, in the Rocky Mountains 
to Colorado and Utah andto Nevada. Alsoin Europe. 
» June-Aug. 
4. CYCLOLOMA Moq. Enum. Chenop. 17. 1840. 
An annual diffusely branched glabrous or cobwebby-pubescent herb, with alternate peti- 
oled irregularly toothed leaves, and small sessile bractless flowers in panicled interrupted 
spikes. Calyx 5-lobed, the lobes keeled in flower, a thin horizontal irregularly dentate wing 
developing belowthemin fruit. Stamens5. Styles 2-3. Fruit (except its summit) enclosed 
by the calyx, depressed. Seed horizontal; embryo a complete ring in the mealy endosperm. 
(Greek, circle-border, alluding to the calyx-wing. ] 
A monotypic genus of north central North America. 
