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8. C. murale, L. (Fig. 10, pl. 35.) NETTLE-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT. 
lant with an offensive odor, leaves thin, shining green, rhombic to egg- 
shaped, apex acute, margins sharply and deeply toothed, clusters of flowers 
loose and spreading. Seeds not shining, acute at borders. Waste places; 
common. 
9 C. hybridum, L. (Fig. 11, pl. 35.) MapLe-LEAvVED GoosEroorT, 
Plant bright green, 2 to 4 ft. high. Leaves triangular with long taper 
point and 1 to 3 triangular or lance points on margin of each side. 
Clusters of flowers leafless. Calyx leaving fruit exposed. Woods and 
thickets. Common. 
10. C. rubrum, L. (Fig. 2, pl. 35.) Rep GoosEroot. Somewhat 
fleshy, 1 to 23 ft. high, stems becoming mostly red or with red and green 
stripes. Leaves shining, green or red, rhombic, deeply and sharply 
toothed, base pointed, apex acute; upper leaves lance-shaped. Flower 
clusters scattered in axillary and terminal leafy spikes often the whole 
length of stem. Calyx lobes rather fleshy, and nearly or quite covering 
the seed. Saline soil; along the sea coasts. 
11. C. Bonus Henricus, L. (Fig. 7, pl. 35.) Goop Kine HENpy. 
PERENNIAL GoosEFooTt. Stem ridged 1 to 23 ft. high. Leaves large, 
triangular, margins entire, green or slightly mealy. Flower groups rather 
dense, crowding closely around the stems, which are not freely branching, 
clusters leafless. Naturalized. Not very common. In waste places. 
12. C. Botrys, L. FEraTneER GERANIUM. JERUSALEM OAK. Plant 
4 to 2 ft. high, with a strong odor; stem silky and glandular, somewhat 
hairy; leaves with long stems, oblong but cut by deep sinuses into a 
feather-formed leaf, the lobes rounded and toothed. Flowers in small 
groups loosely arranged in clusters only slightly leafy. Calyx partially 
enclosing fruit. Waste places throughout our area. 
13. C. ambrosioides, L. (Fig. 8, pl. 35.) Mexican Tea. Plant 
2 to 3 ft. high, strong scented, much branching. Leaves 1 to 34 in. long, 
with very short leaf-stalk, ovate, margins sinuous. Glomerules, small 
axillary masses in long narrow very leafy clusters, these clusters de- 
scending far upon the stem. Calyx completely enclosing the fruit. In 
waste places. 
14. C. anthelminticum, L. (Fig. 6, pl. 35.) WorMseep. Plant re- 
sembling No, 12, but leaves strongly toothed and clusters of glomerules 
‘more elongated, less leafy. Upper leaves very narrow. Waste places. 
Naturalized from Europe. 
2. ROUBIEVA, Mog. 
A perennial plant of somewhat offensive odor, prostrate, much branched, 
with glomerules of very small flowers only in the leaf axils, Flowers 
with stamens only or pistils only or with both. Calyx 3- to 5-parted, 
enclosing the fruit; stamens 5, within the calyx. 
R. multifida, (L.) Mog. (Fig. 2, pl. 36.) CuT-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT. 
Leaves small, lance-shaped, deeply cut at margins into linear or lance- 
shaped lobes, about 2 on each side, apex acute. Flowers 1 to 5 in a group, 
situated at the leaf axils. In waste places. Naturalized. June-Sept. 
