24 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



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



Stems usually decumbent, or even prostrate, 3 inches to 2 feet long, 

 but sometimes erect, and 3 inches to 2 feet high. Leaves very gradually 

 attenuated into the petioles, the largest 1 to 2 inches long, usually scal- 

 loped at the edges. Spikes | to 1-^ inches long, consisting of minute 

 glomerules, which are usually slightly separated, the lower glomerules 

 only Avith leaves at the base. Calyx segments varying from three 

 to five in number, even in the flowers with horizontal seeds, which are 

 not all of the same size, but diminished gradually from the largest 

 size, 7^^ mch, do^vm to the vertical seeds, which are the smallest, and 

 about 4^^ inch in diameter; the colour is chestnut, and the margin 

 has a distinct but not very sharp keel. The stem is striped with 

 green and wliite, the upper side of the leaves pale bright green, the 

 under side glaucous or nearly white. 



A plant found at St. Sampson's, Guernsey, by Mr. H. C. Watson, in 

 1865, has the leaves nearly entire, or only repand, which character 

 is retained in cultivation ; the glomerules are also much larger and 

 fewer than in the ordinary form. 



Oak-leaved Goosefoot. 



Frencli, Anserine glattque. German, Meergrilner Gcinsefnss. 

 SPECIES X.-CHENOPODIUM BONUS HENRICUS. Lhm. 



Plate MCXCIX. 



Blitum Bonus-Henricus, Beich. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p. 582. Moq.-Tand. in D.G. Prod. 



Vol. XIII. Part II. p. 84. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 698. Fnes, 



Summ. Veg. Scand. p. G54. 

 Agathophyton Bonus-Henricus, Moq.-Tand. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. ii. Vol. I. p. 291. 



Perennial. Rootstock fleshy, many-headed. Stem erect or decumbent 

 only at the base, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves triangular or 

 deltoid-triangular, hastate or sagittate-hastate, with the cusps spreading 

 or rcflexed, acute or subacute, entire or repand, sometimes with 1 or 

 2 teeth on each side, the upper ones narrower and subrhomboidal. 

 Flowers in short dense simple or slightly compound lateral and terminal 

 leafless spikes; spikes combined with a very long slender panicle, 

 destitute of leaves, except at the very base. Calyx segments not 

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

 margins, denticulate at the apex. Stigmas elongate. Seeds nearly 

 all vertical, large, not keeled, slightly shining, nearly smooth. Stem 

 and under side of the leaves sparingly clothed with vesicular pellucid 

 meal ; calyx destitute of meal. 



In waste places, by roadsides, principally near villages, and by farm- 

 yards. Not uncommon; and generally distributed in England and the 

 south' of Scotland, reaching north to Ross, Moray, and Dumbarton; 



