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with broad scarious margins. Seeds all horizontal, rather large, not 

 keeled, opaque, coarsely pitted. Stem and leaves slightly shining, 

 nearly destitute of white meal ; calyx nearly destitute of meal. 



On manure heaps and in cultivated ground and waste places. Rare, 

 and uncertain in its stations. It has occurred in most of the southern 

 counties as far north as Norfolk, Cambridge, Northampton, ^Varwick, 

 Worcester, and Shropshire ; but appears to be absent from the west 

 of the island. On the ballast hills at the mouth of the Tyne, where it 

 has occurred, it is doubtless not native. In Scotland it has been found 

 near Edinburgh, and in Ireland once near Belfast. 



England, [Scotland, Ireland]. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stem stiff, bluntly angular, 1 to 3 feet high, sparingly branched. 

 Leaves distant, 2 to 6 inches long, longer than their petioles. 

 Branches of the inflorescence commonly cymose, but sometimes spicate, 

 arranged in large leafless panicles at the extremity of the stem and 

 upper branches. Calyx segments with very broad pale scarious 

 margins. Fruit nearly the size of a rape seed, much flattened, but 

 without a distinct horizontal keel, dull black, coarsely punctured; 

 stem striped with green, red, or white; leaves dull green on both 

 sides, paler below. 



A very distinct species, with the leaves somewhat resembling those 

 of Datura Stramonium, the panicle nearly destitute of leaves, those at 

 the base of the upper branches being very minute and strapshaped, 

 and sometimes altogether abortive. 



Maple-leaved Goosefoot. 



French, Anserine Jiyhnde. German, Undchter Gilnsefuss. 



SPECIES VII.-CH END PODIUM URBICUM. Linn. 



Plate MCXCIX. 



Stem erect, simple, or branched at the base; branches erect or 

 ascending. Leaves triangular or rhombic-triangular or deltoid- 

 triangular, irregularly inciso- dentate, rarely nearly entire ; upper 

 ones much narrower, smaller, and entire. Flowers in small glome- 

 rules, arranged in leafless terminal and axillary lax erect slightly 

 compound spikes ; spikes combined into a long slender rather 

 dense tapering pointed panicle, leafy below, but with the apex for a 

 greater or less distance destitute of leaves. Calyx segments not 

 keeled at the back, not wholly covering the fruit, with broad scarious 

 margins. Seeds all horizontal, rather large, not keeled, slightly 

 shining, very finely shagreened. Stem and leaves slightly shining, 

 very sparingly clothed with white meal ; calyx with scarcely any meal, 

 even when young. 



