Chenopodiacea. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 213 
A small species, 6 inches to a foot high, bright green, or glaucous and pulverulent, much branched. Leaves 
small, broad, sub-hastate, with blunt lobes and a shallow sinus at the base, 3-4 inch long. Flowers powdery, in 
small loose spikes, axillary and terminal. Stamens two to four. Styles bifid or trifid. 
2. Chenopodium urbicum, L.; caule herbaceo ascendente sulcato angulato ramoso, foliis petiolatis 
ovato-rhombeis inequaliter duplicato-crenatis dentatisve utrinque viridibus spicis aphyllis subcymosis di- 
varicatim ramosis, semine horizontali punctato margine obtuso. Linn. Sp. Pl. Eng. Bot. t. 1919. Mog.- 
Tand. l. c. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. East coast, Colenso. New River, Hb. A. Richard. (A native 
of England.) 
A large branching species, 2-3 feet high. Leaves petiolate, broadly triangular, 1-15 inch long; margin 
deeply and irregularly cut into teeth or lobules. Flowers densely spiked. Perianth five-cleft; segments blunt. Seed 
much depressed, punctate, with blunt edges.—A common plant of the North Temperate zone, following cultivation 
everywhere, and possibly introduced into New Zealand. 
3. Chenopodium glaucum, L.; prostratum, subcarnosum, foliis petiolatis oblongo-ovatis deltoideisve 
flaccidis sinuatis inferne glaucis farinosis, spicis erectis farinosis foliosis v. subaphyllis, semine verticali v. 
horizontali punctulato. Zinn. Sp. Pl. A. Cunn. Prodr. Mog.-Tand. 1. c. Engl. Bot. t. 1454. 
Has. On the shores of all the Islands; not uncommon, Banks and Solander, ete. (A native of 
England.) 
Stems numerous, branched, a span long, rather succulent, prostrate. Leaves ¿-1 inch long, petioled, deltoid 
or oblong ovate, sinuate, toothed, white and mealy below. Spikes short. Perianth three- to five-parted. Seed 
erect or horizontal, punctate. —Abundant in various parts of the North Temperate zone, also found in South Chili. 
4. Chenopodium ambrosioides, L.; herbaceum, erectum, ramosum, pubescens v. glabratum, glandu- 
losum, aromaticum, foliis in petiolum augustatis ovatis lanceolatisve basi cuneatis sinuato-lobatis utrinque 
viridibus supra glaberrimis subtus glanduloso-punctatis venosis, racemis foliosis subspicatis, perianthio 
fructifero clauso, semine horizontali. Zinn. Sp. Pl. Mog.-Tand. 1. c. 
Has. Northern Island. Cultivated ground, Colenso, ete. 
Very similar to C. carinatwm, but foliage larger. Flowers fewer together, much larger, in leafy racemes or 
spikes. Perianth closed over the seed, which is horizontal. Stamens usually five. —A very common plant throughout 
the Tropics; probably introduced into New Zealand. The seeds are said to be sometimes vertical, but I do not 
find them so in New Zealand specimens. 
§b. AMBRINA. Seed vertical. (For ©. glaucum see $ a.) 
5. Chenopodium earinatum, Br.? totum glanduloso-puberulum, caule ramoso, ramis suberectis v. diffusis 
elongatis, foliis petiolatis ovatis lineari-ovatisve basi cuneatis obtusis obtuse sinuato-lobatis supra glabris 
subtus glaucis pulverulentis, floribus minimis dense glomerulatis monandris, perianthio fructifero exsucco 
non clauso, semine verticali margine obtuse carinato. Br. Prodr.? Blitum, Mog.-Tand. 1. c. C. botrys, 
4. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island. Bay of Islands, Cunningham, ete. Auckland, Sinclair. 
Very similar in habit and appearance to C. botrys, but the flowers are in little heads, not spikes or ra- 
cemes, and the seed is always vertical. Whole plant puberulous and glandular, smelling strongly. Stems 
branched, 1-2 feet long. Leaves small, 3-1 inch long, petioled, blunt, deeply sinuate, lobed. Flowers very 
minute, in axillary leafy clusters. Stamen one.—Mr. Brown's description of C. carinatum agrees, on the whole, so 
well with this, that, considering how Protean its congeners are, I think it better to retain that name than to make 
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