CLASS V. ORDER II.] CHENOPODIUM. 419 



broadly acute somewhat fleshy spreading segments, pale on the margin. 

 Stamens on slender filaments, opposite the segments, and as long, or 

 rather longer. Anthers yellow, rather large, of two spreading lobes. 

 Styles two, sometimes three, combined at the base. Fruit imbedded 

 in the unchanged perianth. Seed black, almost kidney-shaped, smooth, 

 with the lobes of the embryo somewhat rolled inwards. 



Habitat. Sea coast, but rare. In Norfolk, Suffolk, Dorsetshire, 

 Deronshire, and Cornwall. 



Shrub ; flowering in July and August. 



2. C. marflimum, Linn. (Fig. 478.) Annual Sea-side Goosefoot- 

 Stem spreading, herbaceous ; leaves semi-cylindrical, acute ; flowers 

 in the axis of the leaves, of five fleshy acute segments ; seeds dotted. 



English Botany, t. 633. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 16. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 141. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 216. Schoberia 

 maritima, Meyer. 



Root small, tapering, branched, and fibrous. Stems herbaceous, 

 mostly several, erect, from four to six or eight inches high, branched ; 

 frequently it is much branched from the base, and spreading around, 

 slender, leafy. Leaves numerous, alternate, fleshy, smooth, a glaucous 

 green, semi cylindrical, somewhat tapering upwards with an acute 

 point, about an inch long. Flowers axillary, one, two, or three, small, 

 sessile, each having two small pale membranous ovate bractea at the 

 base. Perianth of five ovate acute segments, pale on the margins, 

 fleshy. Stamens opposite the segments, with filaments about the same 

 length, and with smallish yellow anthers. Styles two. Fruit imbedded 

 in the unchanged perianth. Seeds orbicular, shining black, minutely 

 dotted. 



Habitat. Sea shore in sandy or muddy places ; frequent. 



Annual ; flowering in June or July. 



The leaves have a saline taste, and like most other maritime plants 

 afford, when burnt, an alkaline salt, used for the making of glass, 

 soap, &c. 



** Leaves plane, undivided ; floivers without bracteas. 



3. C. o'lidum, Curtis, (Fig. 479.) Stinking Goosefoot. Stem 

 spreading ; leaves entire, ovato-rhomboid ; flowers in dense clustered 

 leafless spikes; seeds shining, very finely dotted. 



English Botany, t. 1034. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 14. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 141. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 215. C. Vulvaria, 

 Linn. 



Root small, tapering, with branched fibres. Stems several, with 

 long spreading straggling branches, or prostrate, roundish, striated, 

 and covered like the rest of the plant with a hoary mealiness, greasy 

 to the touch. Leaves numerous, small, on longish slender footstalks, 

 entire, ovate, acute, or more or less rhomboid, paler on the under side, 

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