i)30 CHENOPODIACE^. 



0. SALICORNIA (Glass-wort). Perianth top-shaped, 

 fleshy, undivided; stamens 1 2; style very short ; stigma 

 2-cleft ; fruit enclosed in the dry perianth ; stem jointed ; 

 leaves none. (Name from the Latin sal, salt, and cornu, 

 a horn, from the alkaline salt in which it abounds, and 

 the horn-shaped branches.) 



1. CHENOPODIUM (Goose-foot). 

 * Leaves undivided. 



1. C. 6lidum (Stinking Goose-foot). Stem spreading; 

 leaves egg-shaped, with a triangular base, fleshy, mealy; 



flowers in dense clustered spikes. Waste places, espe- 

 cially near the sea. Distinguished by its fishy smell, 

 which is disgusting in the extreme. Fl. August. 

 Annual. 



2. C. polyspermum (Many-seeded Goose-grass). Stem 

 spreading ; leaves egg-shaped, sessile ; flowers, in branched, 

 somewhat leafy, slender spikes ; seeds flattened horizon- 

 tally, shining, minutely dotted. Waste ground, not 

 common. Varying in size, from 4 inches to a foot in 

 height ; the stems and leaves usually have a red tinge, 

 and the plant, when in flower, has a not inelegant 

 appearance from the number of shining, brown seeds, 

 which are not concealed by the perianth. 



* Leaves toothed, angled, or lobed. 



3. C. Bonus-Henricus (Good King Henry). Leaves 

 triangular, arrow-shaped ; flowers in compound, leafless 

 spikes. Waste places near villages, common. A dark- 

 green, succulent plant, about a foot high, with large, 

 thickish leaves, which are used as Spinach, Fl. August. 

 Perennial. 



4. C. album (White Goose-foot). Leaves egg-shaped, 

 with a triangular base, bluntly toothed, upper ones nar- 

 row, entire : flowers in dense, clustering spikes. Waste 

 places and cultivated ground, common. Whole plant 

 succulent ; leaves more or less fleshy, and covered with 



