Vol. 37 No 2 
BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
FEBRUARY, 1910 
The ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket—VI 
EuGENE P, BICKNELL 
CHENOPODIACEAE 
CHENOPODIUM ALBUM L., 
A common weed of waste places, cultivated fields, and sandy 
shores, displaying several pronounced phases of variation ; begins 
to flower in July. 
A pale and narrow-leaved littoral form is sometimes sugges- 
tive of Chenopodium leptophyllum Nutt. Another form often found 
along shores, growing in pure sand, has early deciduous leaves 
and, in September, its leafless stem and even the crowded panicles 
often become highly colored with deep reddish purple. 
* CHENOPODIUM PAGANUM Reich. Fl. Germ. 579. 1830. 
C. viride L. Sp. Pl. 219, in part — probably. 
C. album, var. viridescens St. Am, Fl. Agen. 105. 1821. 
Frequent. This is a common companion of C. a@/dum, dis- 
tinguished from it by its bright or deep green color and almost 
non-farinose character. It appears not to have received any at- 
tention in this country as a different plant from true C. album but 
has long been definitely recognized by many European botanists 
under one or another name, often being erroneously referred to 
C. viride. It is well described by Reichenbach, De Candolle, 
Saint Amans, Moquin-Tandon, and other authors. Although 
closely related to C. album it presents a number of marked and 
fairly constant differences which are strikingly obvious upon com- 
parison of the living plants. In addition to its bright green color 
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