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Common near salt marshes and abundant along interior streams; natu- 

 ralized from tropical America; mostly autumnal. Great Valley and Coast 

 Eanges to Southern California. 



Ref. CHENOPODIUM AMBROSIOIDES L. Sp. PI. 219 (1753), type loc. Mexico. 



6. C. anthelminticum L. WORMSEED. Very close to the preceding; some- 

 times biennial or perennial; herbage light green, glandular-puberulent and 

 highly aromatic; leaves sinuate-serrate or the lower sometimes laciniate- 

 pinnatifid, % to 3 inches long ; inflorescence a terminal mostly leafless panicle 

 of dense but elongated slender spikes; sepals not carinate. 



Not so common as the last, but appearing to hybridize with it. Naturalized 

 from tropical America. Coast Ranges and Sacramento Valley. 



Ref. CHENOPODIUM ANTHELMINTICUM L. Sp. PI. 220 (1753), type loc. Pennsylvania. 



7. C. carinatum R. Br. Stems several from the base, ascending or de- 

 cumbent, 5 to 13 inches long; herbage puberulent, the under side of the leaves 

 with minute resin- globules; leaves ovate, sinuate-crenate, 3 to 6 lines long, 

 on slender petioles % to as long; flowers small, the clusters in all the axils; 

 stamen usually 1. 



Naturalized from Australia. lone; Jackson; etc. 



Ref. CHENOPODIUM CARINATUM R. Br. Prod. 407 (1810), type loc. Australia. 



8. C. californicum Wats. SOAP PLANT. Stout, erect or decumbent at base, 

 11/2 to 2!/2 feet high from a very large carrot-like root; herbage green, scarcely 

 at all mealy; leaves broadly triangular, truncate or cordate at base, or sub- 

 hastate, sharply and unequally sinuate-dentate, l 1 /^ to S 1 /^ inches long; flowers 

 in dense clusters in a terminal spike, leafless or leafy at the very base; calyx 

 campanulate, barely exceeding 1 line; achene with persistent pericarp, sub- 

 globose or somewhat compressed, exserted, % to 1 line broad; embryo com- 

 pletely annular. 



Stream beds and moist slopes or swales in open foothills: Coast Ranges; 

 Sierra Nevada foothills ; south to San Diego Co. Apr.-May. The root is grated 

 on a rock by the native tribes and used as a soap. 



Locs. Marysville Buttes, Jepson; Napa Co., Jepson; Marin Co., Jepson; Antioch, Chesnut 

 4" Drew; Berkeley, Jepson; Pacific Grove, Tidestrom; San Luis Obispo, Boadhouse ; Antelope 

 Valley, Davy 2270; San Bernardino, Parish 4379; Cajon Pass, north slope, Hall 6215; Menifee, 

 Alice King. 



Refs. CHENOPODIUM CALIFORNICUM Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 48 (1880); Blochman, Erythea, 2: 

 10 (1894) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 177 (1901). Blitum californicum Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 9: 101 (1874), type from California. 



9. C. rubmm L. RED GOOSEFOOT. Stem angled, erect, 1 to 2 feet high ; herb- 

 age green or nearly so; leaves lanceolate-oblong to broadly ovate, coarsely 

 sinuate, 1 to 2 inches long; flowers numerous in dense short axillary spikes; 

 calyx-lobes 2 to 4, rather fleshy; stamens 1 or 2; achene shining, the margin 

 acute. 



Sparingly naturalized from Europe, in low and marshy lands: Lower 

 Sacramento River; Alvarado Marshes; Nigger Slough and Ballona, Los 

 Angeles Co. Sept. 



Ref. CHENOPODIUM RUBRUM L. Sp. PI. 218 (1753), type European. 



10. C. capitatum Asch. STRAWBERRY ELITE. Branched at base with erect 

 or ascending stems 5 to 15 inches high ; leaves hastate-triangular or -lanceolate, 

 irregularly toothed or nearly entire, % to 2 inches long, on margined petioles 

 1/2 to as long ; flower clusters large, in interrupted spikes, leafy below ; stamens 

 1 to 5 ; calyx berry-like in fruit. 



Sierra Co., ace. Bot. Cal. ; Sisson, Jepson. North to Alaska, east to the 

 Atlantic. 



Refs. CHENOPODIUM CAPITATUM Asch. Fl. Brandenb. 572 (1864). Blitum capitatum L. 

 Sp. PI. 4 (1753), type European. 



Jepson, Fl. Cal. vol. 1, pp. 369-432, 31 Dec. 1913. 



