160 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. [ Chenopodium. 
all in a long terminal panicle leafy at the base. Segments of the 
fruiting perianth broad, concave, somewhat thicker in the centre or 
keeled, contracted and united at the base, completely closing e the 
fruit. 
shining, the pericarp exceedingly thin.— €. lanceolatum, R. Br. Prod. | 
407 ; Mon in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 62; C. Browneanum, Roem. and Schult. — 
Syst. vi. 275. 
Queensland. . Nerkool Creek, Bowman ; Armadilla, Barton ; Warwick, Becher | 
(the specimen bad and somewhat doubtful). i i 
S. Wales. Paterson’s river, R. Brown; Liverpool plains, Leichhardt; Para- i 
matta, Woolls. | 
Victoria. Melbourne, Adamson; Bacchus marsh and Snowy river, F. Mueller; 
Skipton, Whan. | 
W. Australia. Drummond, n. 224. 
The species is a very common weed in Europe and temperate Asia, and has spread as 
such over many other parts of the world. Whether it be really indigenous or introduced . 
i i n N. S8. Wales and Queensland it is said to be known 
C. biforme, Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 626, from Swan river, Preiss, n. 1256, desit. 
from a single specimen which I have not seen, may be one of the numerous forms 
e i 
young s aves o ! 
rhomboidal, deeply and irregu arly toothed, 1 to above 2 in. ne 
Flowers small, green or slightly mealy, the clusters in much-branche 
separable from the seed.— C. erosum, R. Br. Prod. 407; Moq. in Jv. 
d i. 913 
eensland. Rockhampton, rare, O'S. nesy. 
Victoria. Near Melbourne, Murray river, and Gipps Land, F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Kent's Group, Bass's Straits, R. Brown 
nother European weed now wid ispersed over various temperate.’ 
egions of the globe e Australian specimens I have seen are joe p 
ones, and it is therefore probably introduced on rown's specimens have te "i 
aN 
orm h inet 
often and sometimes all lanceolate. Flowers very small, in ¢ usters 
