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and conical, or occasionally with somewhat cymose branches, and with 

 leaves nearly up to the apex, which quite removes the habit of the 

 plant from C. urbicum, to which C. botryoides closely approximates. 

 The seeds are quite undistinguishable from those of C. botryoides. 

 The stem is striped, and often tin^^ed with red, as are also the calyces, 

 though occasionally green; the foliage is dark green, but not un- 

 frequently it is tinged with red. 



The var. Pseudo-botryoides, from Cornwall and North Surrey, is 

 seldom more than 2 to 4 inches high, but from the seed of the Surrey 

 plant sown in his garden, Mr. H. C Watson obtained plants 1 foot 

 to ] 8 inches high, mth the stems erect, and in other respects closely 

 approximating to the more common form. This var. seems to have 

 been mistaken for Smith's C. botryoides by almost all recent authors. 

 I do not venture to quote C. crassifolium, Ilormn. as a synonym. 



Red Goosefoot. 



Frencli, Anserine rougedtre. German, Bother Gcinsefuss. 



SPECIES IX._CHENOPODIUM GLAUCUM. Lhm. 



Plate MCXCVIII. 



Blitum glauctim, Koch, Syn. FL Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 699. Fries, Summ. Veg, 

 Scand. p. 34. 



Annual. Stem decumbent or prostrate, more rarely erect, sparingly 

 branched, especially at the base. I-ieaves rhomboidal-elliptical or 

 elliptical or oblong-elliptical, coarsely serrate or sinuate-dentate, more 

 rarely entire, the upper ones similar to the lower. Flowers in small 

 glomerules, arranged in terminal and lateral lax or dense simple 

 or slightly compound spikes, which are leafless, or leafy only at the 

 base ; spikes combined into long slender lax panicles, leafy throughout. 

 Calyx segments keeled on the back, not wholly covering the fruit, 

 with very narrow scarious margins. Stigmas short. Vertical seeds, 

 about as numerous as the horizontal; the vertical ones small, bluntly 

 keeled, shining, very finely shagreened; the horizontal ones larger, 

 but in other respects similar. Stem, upper side of leaves, and calyx 

 slightly shining, destitute of meal; under side of the leaves more or 

 less thickly clothed with white meal, especially when young, at wliich 

 time the leaves are quite white beneath. 



On manure heaps and in waste places and cultivated ground. 

 Rare, and not persistent in its stations. It has occurred m most 

 of the counties on the south coast of England, reported also from 

 Glamorganshire, Yorkshire, and the ballast hills at the mouth of the 

 Tyne, and those on the Fifeshire coast; but is probably not truly 

 indigenous, except in the south. 



