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Habitat. Under walls, in waste places, and road sides ; frequent. 

 Annual ; flowering in August and September. 



This is readily distinguished from the other species, especially by 

 the colour and shape of its curious seeds. The whole plant when 

 bruised has an unpleasant foetid smell. 



11. C. hybrid 'um, Linn. (Fig. 488.) Maple-leaved Goosefoot. Leaves 

 heart-shaped, with angular teeth and an acuminated point ; flowers in 

 much spreading branched leafless cymose spikes ; seeds large, black, 

 deeply dotted. 



English Botany, t. 1919. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 12. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 142. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 215. 



Root fibrous. Stem erect, rather slender, mostly with spreading 

 branches, from one to two feet high, round, or angular, smooth, green, 

 with yellowish or purple lines. Leaves alternate, on short channeled 

 footstalks, thickened at the lower part, large, bright green, spreading, 

 heart-shaped, or broadly ovate, with a lengthened point, and about 

 three angular teeth on each side towards the base, the upper ones 

 almost or quite entire, ovate-lanceolate, paler on the under side, with a 

 stout mid-rib and lateral branched veins. Flowers green, scattered on 

 the spreading numerous branches of the terminal and axillary cymose 

 spikes, the flowers are sometimes solitary, but mostly there are two or 

 three together along the branches. Perianth of five spreading ovate 

 segments, palish green, mostly with a narrow pale membranous margin. 

 Stamens on slender filaments, longer than the perianth. Anthers 

 yellow, small. Fruit roundish, much compressed, partly enveloped in 

 the dried perianth. Seed large, shining black, much compressed, 

 marked with irregular large deep pitted dots or furrows, and enclosed 

 in a thin pale membrane. 



Habitat. Moist waste places; rare. About London, Ipswich, 

 Colchester, Dedham, Ely, and Edinburgh. 



Annual ; flowering in August. 



12. C. alb'um, Linn. (Fig. 489.) White Goosefoot. Leaves ovate, 

 approaching to rhomboid, erosed and toothed, entire at the base, the 

 upper ones oblong, entire; spikes branched, somewhat leafy; seeds 

 smooth and shining. 



English Botany, t. 1723. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 13. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 143. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 215. 



a. spicatum. Leaves erosed and toothed ; flowers in crowded spikes. 



/3. cymigerum, (Fig. 490.) Leaves entire, or sparingly toothed; 

 flowers in elongated branched spreading spikes. C. viride, Linn. 



Root branched and fibrous. Stem more or less erect, much branched 

 mostly from the base, and spreading, from one and half to three feet 

 high, round, or somewhat angular and furrowed, striated with palish 

 yellow lines, or reddish, covered like the rest of the plant with a whito 



