Victorian Plants 179 



CHENOPODIUM. 



857. Perennial .. .1 - 858 



Annual 861 



858. Fruit compressed ... 859 



Fruit depressed 860 



859. Tall, shrubby. 



Branchlets often ending in thorns ; leaves spatular- or linear- 

 elliptical, entire; spikes of flower-clusters often panicu- 

 late ; stamens five ; seed placed vertically. 



C. nitrariaceum. 



Prostrate, herbaceous. 



Somewhat papular ; leaives from narrow-lanceolar to rhom- 

 boid-hastate ; flowers in small axillary clusters ; sepals 

 at the base prominently thickened, upwards gradually 

 pointed ; stamen one ; seed placed vertically. 



C. atriplicinum. 



860. Erect, tall. 



Almost herbaceous ; leaves from elliptical and oval to almost 

 hastate ; spikes of flower- clusters often paniculate ; sta- 

 mens five ; seed placed horizontally. C. auric omum. 



Prostrate, very small. 



Leaves minute, from lanceolar and ovate to rhomboid ; 

 flower-clusters mostly axillary ; stamen one ; seed placed 

 horizontally. C. microphyllum. 



861. Sepals bluntly keeled. 



Prostrate, odorous, beset with glandule-bearing hairlets ; 

 leaves small, from elliptical- to roundish-rhomboid, wavy- 

 sinuous ; flower-clusters mostly axillary ; stamen one ; 

 seed placed vertically. C. carinatum. 



Sepals fringed-membranous along their keel. 



Prostrate, odorous, beset with glandule-bearing hairlets ; 

 leaves small, from elliptical- to roundish-rhomboid, wavy- 

 sinuous ; flower-clusters mostly axillary ; stamen one ; 

 seed placed vertically. C. cristatum. 



