364 CHENOPODIAOE^E. (GOOSEFOOT FA.MILT.) 



sparingly or slightly toothed ; racemes spiked-panicled, mostly dense ; seed 

 sharp-edged. — Varies exceedingly in different situations, more or less white- 

 mealy : a narrow and green-leaved variety, with slender racemes, is C. viride, 

 L. — Very common. (Nat. from Eu.) 



* # # * Leaves sinuate- or pinnat (fid-toothed, white-mealy underneath : calyx-lobes 

 not keeled, not perfectly enclosing the fruit, sometimes only 4-2, and then the seed 

 commonly vertical. 



7. C. GLAfjcuM, L. (Oak-leaved Goosefoot.) Stems ascending or 

 prostrate, much branched (6' -12' high); leaves oblong, obtuse, smooth and 

 pale green above ; racemes spiked and simple, dense ; seed sharp-edged. — 

 Philadelphia, Dr. Bromfleld. Lancaster, Penn., Porter. Roxbury, Mass., D. 

 Murray. (Illinois and Wisconsin.) (Adv. from Eu.) 



§2. BOTRYOIS, Moquin. (Ambrina, Moquin, in part.) — Not mealy, bid 

 more or less viscid-glandular ar.d pleasant-aromatic : seed sometimes vertical when 

 the calyx is only 2 -3-clefi; embryo forming only % or $ of a ring. 



8. C. B6trys, L. (Jerusalem Oak. Feather Geranium.) Glan- 

 dular-pubescent and viscid ; leaves slender-petioled, oblong, obtuse, sinuato- 

 pinnatifid ; racemes cymose-diverging , loose, leafless ; fruit not perfectly enclosed ; 

 seed obtusely margined. — Escaped from gardens. (Adv. from Eu.) 



9. C. ambrosioides, L. (Mexican Tea.) Smoothish ; leaves slightly 

 petiolcd, oblong or lanceolate, repand-toothed or nearly entire, the upper taper- 

 ing to both ends ; spikes densely flowered, leafy, or intermixed with leaves ; fruit 

 perfectly enclosed in the calyx; seeds obtuse on the margin. — Waste places ; 

 common, especially southward. (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) — Passes into 



Var. anthelminticum. (Wormseed.) Root perennial (?) ; leaves more 

 strongly toothed, the lower sometimes almost laciniate-pinnatifid ; spikes mostly 

 leafless. (C. anthelminticum, L.) — Common in waste places southward. 

 (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



3. BOUBIEVA, Moquin. Roubieva. 



Calyx oblong-urn-shaped, 5-toothed, in fruit enclosing the glandular-dotted 

 utricle like a small pod. Filaments short and flat. Seed vertical. Otherwise 

 like Chenopodium, § 2. — A diffusely much-branched perennial, with small 1 - 2- 

 pinnatifid leaves, and axillary clustered flowers. (Named for G. J. Roubieu, a 

 French botanical writer.) 



1. B. mdlti'fida, Moquin. (Chenopodium multifidum, L.) — Waste 

 places, New York, in and around the city, J. Carey. (Adv. from Trop. Amer.) 



4. BLITUM, Tourn. Blue. 



Flowers perfect, bractless. Calyx 3 -5-parted, either unchanged or becom- 

 ing juicy and berry-like in fruit, not appendaged. Stamens 1-5: filaments 

 filiform." Styles or stigmas 2. Seed vertical, compressed-globular ; the embryo 

 coiled into a ring quite around the albumen. — Herbs, with petioled triangular 

 or halberd-shaped and mostly sinuate-toothed leaves. (The ancient Greek and 

 Latin name of some insipid pot-herb.) 



