Chenopodium. | XCVI. CHENOPODIACE X, 161 
branches of a slender terminal panicle, or the lower ones in the axils 
of the upper leaves. Perianth-segments broad and concave, sometimes 
i i Tui much 
little cymes in a terminal. interrupted spike 
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horizontal, about j line diameter, in a very thin membranous pericarp. 
C 
epo, Roem. and Schult. Syst. vi. 275; Moq. in DC. Prod. xii. 
li. 65, Js 
Queensland. Armadilla, Parton. j 
F S. Wales. Paramatta, Woolls ; Namoi river, Leichhardt; New England, C. 
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The habit is nearly that of Rhagodia hastata, but the fruit is never succulent, and 
the inflorescence rather different. The C. triangulare of Forskihl ing reduced by 
oquin to C. murale, there seems no reason to suppress Brown’s name of C. triangulare 
for the present species, 
Var. stellulatum. Perianth-segments with a rather small concave lamina contracted 
at the base into a linear stipes (reduced to the somewhat prominent midrib). Leaves 
€ typical form.—New È Stuart. 
Var. angustifolium. Leaves linear-lanceolate or the lower ones lanceolate-hastate. 
Perianth of the typical form.—To this belong the Queensland specimens and some from 
New England, 
6. C. microphyllum, F. Jul in Trans. Phil. Inst, Viet. ii 74. 
À small much-branched prostrate or diffuse plant apparently perennial 
re or less mealy-white. Leaves numerous, small, petiolate, ovate 
eed flat, horizontal. 
= S. Wales. On the Billabong, W. Bissett. 
& ctoria, Bacchus marsh, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy. ; 
‘Australia. Near the Barossa Range, Behr.; Enfield, F. Mueller. 
aucum, Linn. ; Moq. in DC. Prod. xii. ii. 72. An ee 
use and prostrate or decumbent at the base, the 
ms ascending to 1 ft. or more, glabrous striate and furrowed. Leaves 
te, 
og : e upper ones forming terminal up scc ira um leafy at the 
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