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Rhagodia, | XCVI. CHENOPODIACER. 157 
mee Tang Sango, Victorian and other Expeditions ; Hastings river, Beckler; Dallandool 
ictoria. Wendu ied etes! Tinh: river, F. Mueller ; Creswick, Whan. 
- Derwent R. Bro y WD Hooke ee; scene Rh in plains near 
Ross, eens A: Esk river. "OL Su rt. 
Kangaroo island, R. Bro ; Murray river, Salt Creek, Port Ade- 
laide, T Mueller ; towards nope s Creek, Wheeler, Howitt's Expedition. 
2. R. linifolia, 2. Br. Prod. 408. A diffuse or procumbent herb 
or earn more slender even than R. nutans and like that species 
een or the young shoots very slightly mealy. Leaves alternate, 
inear or linear-lanceolate, rather acute, contracted into a short petiole, 
thin and green on both 1 sides, from under 4 in. to nearly 2 in. noes 
Inflorescence almost filiform, rarely above 1 in. long, simple or slightly 
branched or forming a blender divaricate leafy panicle. Flowers very 
Pas asland. Broad Sound, R. Brou wn; Bay of Inlets, Banks and Solander ; 
Sum Mitchell ; Curri willighie, Dalton ; Darling Downs, Lau ; picea 
anesy, 
n S. Wales. Hunter's river, A. Cunn ningham; in the i interior, Leichhardt ; 
amden district, Woolls ; New England, C. Stuart; Ballandool river, Locker. 
2. CHENOPODIUM, Linn. 
(Ambrina, Mog., Blitum, Mog. (partly). 
Flowers eae bridite or M rie polygamous. Perianth herbaceous, 
ed into 5 o rarely 4 or 3 lobes or segments which are 
a 
ed, rer onda or ovoid; styles 2 or rarely 3, usually united 
h "S depressed or ovoid, es or com letely covered 
Yun persistent at pitt pericarp dry, n mbranous, distinct from or 
Seed h hoviaantally flattened, or vertical and 
«an ele ; testa LARA embryo circular, enclosing a mealy 
t -. Herbs or rarely shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, 
axi] Am toothed or divided. Flowers small, sessile i in clusters, either 
ary or in Interrupted terminal spikes or 
grans is wide] o be reall iy ita 
fat in temperate ey Stirn e^ ical region heus. It m neal four m ead Austra 
es Eur bii 8, 
Precise limits to be assigned to the genus are as yet very uncertain. The las " 
Conr Pecos here included, with the seeds all erect and s inflorescence axillary, a: 
rianth, but nearly allied to the European Blita originally characterized bei the social 
bò fi t recently extended to the majority of Chenopodia wit rect ceeds, 
of the latter character entails however the assigning C. itia and C. 
