<$14 Oodkr 105.— CHKNOPODIACE^L 



)obe9, glandular-pubescent, glaucous green, the floral bract-like ; fls. eymous-pani- 

 culate, in long ascending, raceme-like panicles ; seed smooth, nearly globular. — 



00 Plant 1 to 2f high, branched from the base. Lvs. few. 1 to 2' long, petioles 

 half as long. Fls. innumerable, minute, clammy, covering nearly the whole plant. 

 Jn. — Aug. Strongly fragrant of turpentine. 



4. ROUBIE'VA, Moq. (Named for G. J. Roubieu, a French botan- 

 ist.) Calyx oblong-ureeolate, 5-toothed, in fruit rugous and inclosing 

 the utricle like a capsule; stamens 5 ; styles and stigmas 3 ; seed len- 

 ticular, vertical, embryo a complete ring. — % A diffusely branched,, pu- 

 bescent herb, with alternate, multifid lvs. and small green fls. (Chcno- 

 podium, Ts.) 



R. multifida Moq. — "Waste grounds, waysides about the city of N. Y. (Holton). 

 A strongly-scented, prostrate herb, 1 to 2f long. Lvs. small, 1' less or more long, 

 pinnatifid with oblong lobes. Fls. numerous, glomerate, axillary, sessile, iu 

 bracted, panicled racemes. Fruit nearly 1" long. § S. America. 



5. BLI V TUM, Tourn. Blite. Calyx 3 to 5-parted, finally un- 

 changed or becoming juicy and berry-like in fruit ; stamens 1 to 5, with 

 filiform filaments; styles 2, utricle compressed, inclosed in the calyx; 

 seed vertical, embryo a complete ring. — CD Lvs. alternate, petiolate. 

 Fls. glomerate. 



S Heads (slomerules) miliary, subspieate above. Cal. thickened in fruit Stfg-. united. Nos. 1, 2 

 | Heads forming a dense, terminal spike. Calyx dry. Stigmas distinct . No. 3 



1 B. capitatum L. Strawherry Blite. Lvs. triangular-hastate, toothed; hds. 

 in terminal, interrupted, leafless f pikes ; stam. 1 to 5 ; fr. consisting of the red- 

 dened flowers, appearing like strawberries, full of a purple juice, taste insipid; seed 

 dull. — Va. to Arc. Circle. A weed-like plant growing in fields, and sometimes 

 cultivated in gardens as a flower, or a culinary. Sts. purplish-striped, branching, 



1 to 2f high. Heads of fls. sessile, near together, on the branches and summit 

 of the stem. Jn. f 



2 B. maritimum Nutt. Much branched, angular; lvs. lanceolate, attenuate at 

 each extremity, incisely dentate ; hds. axillary, sessile, spicate ; cal. somewhat 

 fleshy ; stam. 1 ; seed shining. — A coarse, unsightly plant, in salt marshes, N. Y. 

 to N. J. St. 1 to 2f high, very branching. Lvs. fleshy, with 2 or more large 

 teeth each side. Fls. very numerous and minute, becoming thkkish in fruit. 

 Seed much flattened. Aug. 



3 B. Bonus-Henricus Reichenb. Goon Kixo Henry. Plant mealy, ascend- 

 ing, subsimple ; lvs. triangular-hastate, entire or sinuate, green ; glomerulos- 

 forming a terminal, leafless spike, not fleshy in fruit; stam. 5. — "Waysides, Can. 

 N. Eng., rare. § Eur. 



6. ATRIPLEX, Gaert. Flowers monoecious or dioecious. & Bract- 

 less ; calyx 3 to 5-sepaled ; stamens 3 to 5, hypogynous ; pistil rudi- 

 mentary ; $ ovary 2-styled, with no stamens, inclosed between 2 

 leaf-like bracts, or in some species partly furnished with a 5-sepaled 

 calyx witbout bracts; fruit compressed, inclosed; seed vertical (hori- 

 zontal when the calyx is present), embryo annular. — Herbs or shrubs, 

 usually clothed with scurf or mealiness, with alternate, petiolate lvs. 

 and densely glomerate-spiked green fls. 



1 A. hastata L. Ascending, diffusely branched ; lvs. alternate or subopposite, 

 triangular hastate, sinuately toothed or nearly entire, the upper lanceolate, entire ; 

 fruit bracts triangular-deltoid, slightly murieate, margin denticulate or entire — 

 Salt marshes, N. Y. to Ga. Sts. 1 to 2f long, striate -with green. Lvs. 1 to 3' 

 long, including the petiole, glaucous-mealy or green. Fls. in glomerate, axillary 

 and terminal racemes $ and $ mixed. Aug., Sept. (A. patula L. A. la- 

 ciniata Ph.) 



3. pursiiiana. Plant more or less dotted with scarf-scales. (A. laciniata Ph.) 



