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and on the sea shore. Many of the plants of this tribe 

 are used as esculent vegetables, as Spinach, Beet, and 

 Orache. Beet is cultivated extensively in France for 

 making sugar, and a variety of it affords valuable food 

 for cattle under the name of Mangold Wurzel. In Peru 

 the leaves of Chenopodium Quinoa, a plant growing at a 

 great elevation, are a common article of food, lilany of 

 those kinds which grow in salt marshes and on the sea 

 shore afford an immense quantity of soda. According 

 to some naturalists Salvador a Persica, belonging to this 

 order, is the Mustard Tree of Scripture. It bears a 

 juicy fruit, having the flavour of cress, and its seeds are 

 very small. Some of the species have an offensive, 

 odour ; but a variety of Chenopodium Botrys, found in 

 Zermatt, Switzerland, is remarkable for the aromatic 

 fragrance of its foliage. 



1. CHENOPODIUM (Goose-foot). Perianth deeply 

 5-cleft, remaining unaltered, and finally closing over the 

 single seed ; stamens 5 ; stigmas 2 ; leaves flat. (Name 

 in Greek meaning the same as the English name.) 



2. SU^EDA (Sea Blite). Perianth deeply 5-cleft, often 

 fleshy ; stamens 5 ; stigmas 2 3; leaves semicylindrical. 

 (Name from suced, soda, in which the plants abound.) 



3. ^CTKIPLEX (Orache). Stamens and pistils for the 

 most part in separate flowers, sometimes united ; barren 



flower, perianth 2 5 cleft; stamens 5; fertile flower, 

 perianth of 2 valves ; stigmas 2 ; fruit 1 -seeded, covered 

 by the enlarged perianth ; leaves flat. (Name from the 

 Greek a, not, and trephein, to nourish.) 



4. BETA (Beet). Perianth deeply 5-cleft; stamens 

 5 ; stigmas 2 ; fruit 1 -seeded, adhering to the tube of 

 the fleshy perianth; leaves flat. (Name, the Latin 

 name of the plant.) 



5. SALSOLA (Saltwort). Perianth deeply 5-cleft ; 

 stamens 5 ; stigmas 2 ; fruit 1 -seeded, crowned by the 

 shrivelled lobes of the perianth; leaves cylindrical. 

 (Name from the Latin sal, salt, from the alkaline salt 

 in which it abounds.) 



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