LVII. CHENOPODIA V CE^E : CHENOPO V DIUM. 



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or fewer, inserted in the bottom of the perianth. Ovarium 1-seeded, usually 

 free. Style 2 4-cleft, rarely simple. Stigmas undivided. Pericarp mem- 

 branous, valveless, seldom baccate. Embryo inarching a farinaceous albumen; 

 or spiral or forked, without albumen. Only distinguished from Jmaran- 

 thaceae in the insertion of the stamens. (G. JDon.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, or opposite, exstipulate, deciduous or sub-ever- 

 green ; entire or lobed. Flowers terminal. Shrubs, natives of the South of 

 Europe and North America. The genera are three, which are thus 

 contradistinguished : 



CHENOPO^DIUM L. Flowers hermaphrodite. ^ ' 



^'TRIPLEX L. Flowers polygamous. 



DIO X TIS Schreb. Flowers mono2cious. 



GENUS I. 



CKENOPO'DIUM L. THE GOOSEFOOT. Lin. Syst. Pentandria Digynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., 121., but with some modification since. 

 Synonymes. Salsola sp.~; Anserine, Fr. ; Gause Fuss, Ger. ; Chenopodio, Ital. 

 Derivation. From the Greek words chen, a goose, and podion, a little foot ; many of the species 

 having large angular leaves extremely like the webbed foot of a waterfowl. 



Gen. Char., fyc. Flowers bisexual. Calyx inferior, with 5 sepals, permanent. 

 Stamens 5, hypogynous. Anthers with round lobes. Styles 2. Stigmas 

 obtuse. Fruit a utricle, invested by the calyx. (G. Don) 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous or sub-evergreen ; generally 

 lobed, bearing a friable unctuous scurf. Flowers axillary, in leafy spikes 

 or naked panicles, numerous, small, green. Shrubs, deciduous or sub- 

 evergreen ; natives of the South of Europe ; of the easiest culture in any 

 dry soil, and readily propagated by cuttings. 



ti. 1. C. FRUTICO V SUM Schrad. The shrubby Goosefoot, or Stonecrop Tree. 



Identification. Schrader, according to G. Don in Hort. Brit. 



Sal-sola fruticbsa Lin. Sp. PI. 324. ; the shrubby Glasswort ; 

 Soude en Arbre, Fr. ; strauchartiges Salzkraut, Ger. ; 

 Sopravvivolo legnoso, Ital. 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 635. ; Flor. Graec., t. 255. ; 

 and our Jigs. 1316. and 1317. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Shrubby, upright, ever- 

 green. Leaves semicylindrical, bluntish, 

 imbricate. (j$mt&.) A low, sub-evergreen, 

 glaucous shrub. South of Europe, and 

 England, on the sea coast. Height 3 ft. 

 to 4ft. Flowers greenish, axillary ; July 

 and August. 



Not unworthy of a place in gardens or 

 shrubberies, being sub-evergreen and tolera- 

 bly hardy, remarkable for the glaucous hue of 

 the leaves, and very durable. The branches 

 ,316 afruticosum. are very brittle, and apt to break off. 



ynonymes 



- 2. C. PARVIFO V LIUM R. & S. 



1317. C. fruticosum. 



The small-leaved Goosefoot. 



Identification. Rcem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 266. 



Snonmes. C. fruticbsum Bieb. in Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 1. p. 181., exclusively of all the synonymes ; C 



microphvllum Bieb. in Suppl. to Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 1. p. 275. ; Sals&la fruticdsa Bieb. Casp. p. 149 

 App. No. 22., Pall. It. 3. p. 524. ; SuaSda microphylla Pall. Illust. 3. t. 44. 

 Engravings. Pall. 111., 3. t. 44. ; and OUT Jig. 1318. 



Spec. Char., $c. Imperfectly evergreen, frutescent, much-branched, spreading, 

 glabrous, about 2 ft. high. Leaves taper, oblong, obtuse, glaucescent, fleshy ; 



x x 2 



