12 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



specimens shows tliat the two cannot be separated. If, indeed, we 

 conceive the axilhiiy spikes of var. 3 greatly developed, they would 

 put on exactly the appearance of the branches of var. a. Seeds 

 reddish-brown, glol)ular, subreniform, depressed, rather smaller than 

 maw-seed {Papavcr hortense), black or reddish-black, closely invested 

 by the pericarp. Plant green or tinged with red. 



Many-seeded Goosefoot. 



French, Anserine pohjsperme. German, Vielsamiger Gdnsefuss. 

 This plant is also known as Allseed, Goosefoot, or Elite, 



SPECIES II.— CHE NOP ODIUM VULVARIA. Linn. 



Plate MCLXXXVII. 



BiUof, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2354. 



C. olidum. Curt. Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1034. et Auct. Ang. Plur. 



C. foetidum. Lam. Fl. Fr. Vol. III. p. 244 (non ScJirad.). 



Stem decumbent, diiFusely branched ; branches divaricate. Leaves 

 rhombic- or deltoid-ovate, entire. Flowers in minute glomerules, 

 arranged in short dense erect terminal and axillary spikes, destitute 

 of leaves ; spikes combined into short compact terminal panicles, leafy 

 only at the base. Fruit calyx with the segments not keeled, covering 

 the fruit. Seeds all horizontal, rather small, shining, finely punctured. 

 Stem, leaves, and calyx sparingly clothed with white meal, most 

 abundant when the plant is young. 



By roadsides, especially at the foot of walls, and in waste places, 

 chiefly in the neighbourhood of towns or villages, or by the sea. 

 Rather common, and generally distributed in England, except in the 

 west, but becoming scarce in the north. Very rare in Scotland, where 

 it appears to be confined to the coast from Fisherrow to Prestonpans, 

 the foniier in Mid-Lothian, the latter in East Lothian; it has also 

 occurred on the ballast hills on the Fife coast, but doubtless intro- 

 duced there. Very rare, and possibly now extinct in Ireland, although 

 it has occurrednearCork, Tramore, Dublm, and Belfast. 



England, Scotland, L'eland. Annual. Late Summei', Autumn. 



Stems weak, slender, wiry, branched throughout, branches mostly 

 opposite, spreading in all directions, 3 to 18 inches long, often as- 

 cending at the extremity, the lower ones as long as the principal stem. 

 Lai-gest leaves l to 1|- inch long, and generally nearly as broad, on 

 stalks of about their own length ; the upper leaves decreasing in size, 

 but not to any great extent. Spikes i to -} inch long, continuous or 

 slightly interrupted, the lateral ones shorter than the leaves from 

 the axil of which they* spring, collected into small panicles at the 

 apex of the stem and branches. Fruit globular-reniform, depressed, 



