AUGUST. 341 
PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
MonocHLAMYD®. CHENOPODIACE. 
CHENOPODIUM. (Goosrroor.) 
A singular genus of plants, not beautiful, but useful for 
food in some countries, where they are eaten like Spinach, 
and in others burned with marine plants for the soda found 
in the ashes. ‘They are not striking im appearance, as their 
flowers are green and insignificant ; the leaves too are often 
of a whitish green, and several of them are low trailing 
plants, the rest tall. They are common on waste places and 
under walls ; but I must refer aspiring botanists to larger 
works on the subjects ; for the species are so familiar that 
they are difficult to describe in language sufficiently simple 
for beginners. 
PENTANDRIA. TETRAGYNIA. 
THALAMIFLOR®. HYPERICACES. 
PARNASSIA. (Grass or Parnassus.) 
Generic Character. Calyx deeply five-cleft. Petals five. 
Nectaries five, heart-shaped, fringed with globular-headed 
filaments. 
