CHENOPODIACEiE. 2 1 



SoB-SrEciEs I.— Chenopodium botryoides. Sm. 

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Stems branched, especially from the base; the lateral branches 

 elongate, spreading or curving upwards. Leaves rhombic or rhombic- 

 deltoid, very thick and fleshy, entire, or rarely with a few shallow 

 teeth. Glomerules of flowers in lax interrupted simple or slightly 

 compound spikes, with spicate or subcymose branches, with minute 

 leaves towards the base, leafless towards the apex; spikes combined 

 into a lax pyramidal panicle destitute of leaves at the apex. 



In recently disturbed waste ground and damp places, and by the 

 sides of ditches. Kare, and very local. About Yarmouth, on both 

 the Norfolk and Suffolk sides of the water ; also found by Smith at 

 Lowestoft, Suff'olk; in 1853 I found it abundantly on the embank- 

 ment about Shorne Battery, below Gravesend, after the surface of the 

 embankment had been disturbed; and in 1863 Mr. H. C. Watson found 

 it plentifully in a damp hollow where heaps of seaweed are collected 

 after storms, in Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate; and in this locality, 

 where it grows intermixed with C. eu-rubrum, I have procured it every 

 year up to 1866. It is said to occur in Essex, which is not unlikely, 

 but I have seen no specimen from thence. 



England. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stem bluntly angular, 6 inches to 3 feet high, erect, with the 

 lower branches usually decumbent at the base. Leaves 1 to 3 inches 

 long, very thick, fleshy, and brittle, 3-nerved at the base. Spikes 

 resembling those of C. urbicum, very long, with the glomerules not 

 contiguous, the lower with short branches or minute leaves at the base, 

 the upper glomerules with merely rudimentary leaves. Flowers very 

 numerous. Panicles quite destitute of leaves at the apex, very lax. 

 Seeds chestnut, not above ^ inch in diameter. Leaves pale yellowish 

 green, often tinged with red ; stem striped with white or red ; calyx 

 green or red. 



This plant bears much resemblance to G. urbicum, but the stem is 

 more branched and the branches more spreading, the leaves fleshy 

 and broader, the calyx very rarely with so many as 5 segments, and 

 the seeds are almost all horizontal, and very much smaller; the spikes 

 also are not nearly so erect, so that the panicle is wider at the base, 

 and, the glomerules are larger. 



Many-clustered Goosefoot. 



French, Anserine hotridc. German, WeichJiaariger Gdnsefuss. 



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