364 CHENOPODIAOE.E. (OOOSEFOOT FA.MILT.) 



sparingly or slightly toothed; racemes spiked-paniclcd, mostly dense; seed 

 thorp-edged. Varies exceedingly in different situations, more or less white- 

 mealy : a narrow and green-leaved variety, with slender racemes, is C. viride, 

 L. Very com m on. ( Nat. fro m E u . ) 

 * * * * Leaves sinuate- or pinnatijid-toothed, white-mealy underneath : calyx-lobes 



not keeled, not perfectly enclosing the fruit, sometimes only 4-2, and then the seed 



commonly vertical. 



7. C. GLAUCUM, L. (OAK-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT.) Stems ascending' or 

 prostrate, much branched (6' -12' high); leaves oblong, obtuse, smooth and 

 pale green above ; racemes spiked and sim j^e, dense ; seed sharp-edged. 

 Philadelphia, Dr. Dromfleld. Lancaster, Penn., Porter. Roxbury, Mass., D. 

 Murray. (Illinois and Wisconsin.) (Adv. from Eu.) 



$2. BOTRYOIS, Moquin. (AMBRINA, Moquin, in part.) Not mealy, but 

 more or less viscid-glandular and pleasant-aromatic : seed sometimes vertical whm 

 the calyx is only 2 - 3-cltft ; enibryo forming only or | of a ring. 



8. C. BOTRYS, L. (JERUSALEM OAK. FEATHER GERANIUM.) Glan- 

 dular-pubescent and viscid ; leaves slender-petioled, oblong, obtuse, sinuate- 

 pinnatifid ; racemes cymose-diverging, loose, leafless; fruit not perfectly enclosed; 

 seed obtusely margined. Escaped from gardens. (Adv. from Eu.) 



9. C. AMBROSIOIDES, L. (MEXICAN TEA.) Smoothish ; leaves slightly 

 petioled, oblong or lanceolate, repand-toothed or nearly entire, the upper taper- 

 ing to both ends ; spikes densely flowered, leafy, or intermixed with leaves ; fruit 

 perfectly enclosed in the calyx ; seeds obtuse on the margin. Waste places; 

 common, especially southward. (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) Passes into 



Var. ANTHELMfxTicuM. (WORMSEED.) Root perennial (?) ; leaves more 

 strongly toothed, the lower sometimes almost laciniate-pinnadfid ; spike* mostly 

 leafless. (C. anthelmmticum, L.) Common in waste places southward. 

 (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



3. 11OUBIJEVA, Moquin. ROUBIEVA. 



Calyx oblong-urn-shaped, 5-toothed, in fruit enclosing the glandular-dotted 

 utricle like a small pod. Filaments short and flat. Seed vertical. Otherwise 

 like Chenopodium, 2. A diffusely much-branched perennial, with small 1-2- 

 pinnatifkl leaves, and axillary clustered flowers. (Named for G. J. Roubieu, a 

 French botanical writer.) 



1. R. MULTfFiDA, Moquin. (Chenopodium multifidum, L.} Waste 

 places, New York, in and around the city, J. Carey. (Adv. from Trop. Amer. ) 



4. BLtTUJKE, Tourn. ELITE. 



Flowers perfect, bractless. Calyx 3 - 5-parted, either unchanged or becom- 

 ing juicy and berry-like in fruit, not appendaged. Stamens 1-5: filaments 

 filiform. Styles or stigmas 2. Seed vertical, compressed-globular ; the embryo 

 coiled into a ring quite around the albumen. Herbs, with potiolcd triangular 

 or halbi-rd-shapcd and mostlj sinuate-toothed leaves. (The ancient Givck and 

 Latin name of some insipid pot-herb.) 



