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lobes, glandular-pubescent, glaucous green, the floral bract-like ; fls. cymous-pani- 

 culate, in long ascending, raceme-like panicles ; seed smooth, nearly globular. 

 X Plant 1 to 2f high, branched from the base. Lvs. few. 1 to 2' long, petioles 

 half as long. Fls. innumerable, minute, clammy, covering nearly the whole plant. 

 Jn. Aug. Strongly fragrant of turpentine. 



4. ROUBIE'VA, Moq. (Named for <?. 7. Roubieu, a French botan- 

 ist.) Calyx oblong-urceolate, 5-toothed, in fruit rugous and inclosing 

 the utricle like a capsule ; stamens 5 ; styles and stigmas 3 ; seed len- 

 ticular, vertical, embryo a complete ring. It A diffusely branched, pu- 

 bescent herb, with alternate, multifid Ivs. and small green fls. (Cheno- 

 podium, L.) 



R. multifida Moq. Waste grounds, waysides about the city cf N. Y. (Holton). 

 A strongly-scented, prostrate herb, 1 to 2f long. Lvs. small, 1' less or more long, 

 pinnatifid with oblong lobes. Fls. numerous, glomerate, axillary, sessile, in 

 bracted, panicled racemes. Fruit nearly 1 ' long. S. America. 



5. BLMUM, Totirn. ELITE. Calyx 3 to 5-parted, finally un- 

 changed or becoming juicy and berry -like in fruit ; stamens 1 to 5, with 

 filiform filaments ; styles 2, utricle compressed, inclosed in the calyx ; 

 seed vertical, embryo a complete ring. ( Lvs. alternate, petiolate. 

 Fls. glomerate. 



$ Heads (slomerules) axillary, subspicate above. Cal. thickened in fruit. Stig. united. Nos. 1, 2 

 Heads forming a dense, terminal spike. Calyx dry. Stigma* distinct No. 3 



1 B. capita-turn L. STRAWBERRY ELITE. Lvs. triangular-hastate, toothed; hds. 

 in terminal, interrupted, kafless tpikes ; stam. 1 to 5 ; fr. consisting of the red- 

 dened flowers, appearing like strawberries, full of a purple juice, taste insipid; seed 

 dull. Va. to Arc. Circle. A weed-like plant growing in fields, and sometimes 

 cultivated in gardens as a flower, or a culinary. Sts. purplish-striped, branching, 

 1 to 2f high. Heads of fls. sessile, near together, on the branches and summit 

 of the stem. Jn. f 



2 B. maritimum Nutt. Much branched, angular; Ivs. lanceolate, attenuate at 

 each extremity, incisely dentate ; hds. axillary, sessile, spicate ; cal. somewhat 

 fleshy ; stam. 1 ; seed shining. A coarse, unsightly plant, in suit marshes, N. Y. 

 to N. J. St. 1 to 2f high, very branching. Lvs. fleshy, with 2 or more large 

 teeth each side. Fls. very numerous and minute, becoming thickish in fruit. 

 Seed much flattened. Aug. 



3 B. Bonus-Henricus Reichenb. GOOD KING HENRY. Plant mealy, ascend- 

 ing, subsimple ; Ivs. triangular-hastate, entire or sinuate, green ; glomerules 

 forming a terminal, leafless spike, not fleshy in fruit; stam. 5. Waysides, Can. 

 N. Eng., rare. Eur. 



6. ATRIPLEX, Gaert. Flowers monoecious or dioacious. $ Bract- 

 less ; calyx 3 to 5-sepaled ; stamens 3 to 5, hypogynous ; pistil rudi- 

 mentary ; $ ovary 2-styled. with no stamens, inclosed between 2 

 leaf-like bracts, or in some species partly furnished with a 5-sepaled 

 calyx without bracts; fruit compressed, inclosed; seed vertical (hori- 

 zontal when the calyx is present), embryo annular. Herbs or shrubs, 

 usually clothed with scurf or mealiness, with alternate, petiolate Ivs. 

 and densely glomerate-spiked green fls. 



1 A. hastata L. Ascending, diffusely branched ; Ivs. alternate or subopposite, 

 triangular hastate, sinuately toothed or nearly entire, the upper lanceolate, entire ; 

 fruit bracts triangular-deltoid, slightly muricate, margin denticulate or entire. 

 (T) Marshes and waste grounds, N.Y. to Ga. Sts. 1 2f. long, striate with green. 

 Lvs. including the petiole 1 3 long, thin find green (mealy in marshes). Fls. in 

 glomerate axillary and terminal racemes. $ and $ mixed. Aug. Sept. 



/?.? OBLONGIFOLIA. LVP. all oblong-lanceolate, scurfy-dolled ; bracts very 

 Large in fruit; ste-n rigid, erei-l, If. or more. Like .shores, N. Y. (Haiikenson.) 



