cm XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. 159 
thick, united at the base. Fruit enclosed in the unaltered periant 
Pericarp membranous. Seed erec ct, flat; embryo circinate, the radicle 
We inferior.— Rhagodia nitrariacea, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Inst. 
let. ii. 73. 
N.S. Wales. Darling VAM Victorian me Mrs. Ford. 
Victoria. ie n nd Avoca rivers, F. Mueller. 
W. Australi Swa : i 
Some other specimens referred to this species by F. Mueller appear z me to belong 
to Rhagodia s nescens, but are too lis speci to d eterni In all those which I have 
oig as red I have un dade found the seed, either already vulargid after flower- 
or quite ripe, erect and enclosed in a thin dry pericarp. 
Sxcr, 9. CHENOPODIASTRUM , Moq.— Herbs, mealy-white or gla- 
bien St ete clusters in trita] or axillary spikes or panicles. Seeds 
all or mostly horizontal. 
2. C. auricomum, Lindi. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 94. Erect and 
pishiy tall, more or less ar or hoary all over, "apparently her- 
„eous and not spinescent. Leaves on rather lon ng ‘petiole , ovate or 
the styles. 
hel ular.— Mog. i in DC. Prod. xi 
IES Uie Vcr river and Sturt’ 5 ud mo F paie Gulf of Car- 
orough ; in the interior, M*Douall Stuart's Ex 
*ensland. Narran river, Mitchell ; Currheillighie, Dalton; Suttor and Bowen 
rivers, Tomek. 
a E^ "erige; river and Duroodoo, Viri 
irem nete n sei t sot C Te A man dea 
C. furfy cum, ot really i sen emcee m vga - "Entrecantenns 
eri, Qu t ie DM. 
coast of the continent of Australia. 
usually e pln 
to 9 f. hi h, of a pale groin | or more or less m mealy- 
vhi, ely the um E db under side of the leaves. Leaves 
] ne i 
ot hed i ones ovate or rhomboidal, — or less : — 
oe , ally narrow an ire 
olg in short i ense or "interrupted spikes, a or slightly 
lod 
