408 CIIENOPODIACK.E. (c.OOSEFOOT FAMILY.) 



8. C. ambtjosioIdes, L. (Mexica:* Tea.) Smoothish; leaves sJifjMy 

 peti'ol&l, oblonjr or lanceolate, ropuntl-tootlietl or nearly entire, the up])cr taper- 

 ing to both ends ; spikes dense! ij Jiowereil, lea/}/, or intermixed with leaves ; I'niit 

 perfectly enclosed in the calyx. — Waste places : common, especially southward. 

 (Nat. I'rom Trop. Anicr.) — Passes into 



Var. ANTiiELMiNTicUM. ( WoKMSEED. ) Root perennial {]) ; leaves more 

 strongly toothed, .the lower sometimes almost laciniate-pinnatilid ; spikes ntost/i/ 

 leafless. (C. anthelmi'nticura, L.) — Common in waste places southward. (Nat. 

 from Trop. Amcr.) 



9. C. MULTiFiDUM, L. Glandular-pubcrulcHt, diflFuscly branched; leaves 

 nnce or twice pinnatijid, pale ; flowers small in axillary clusters ; calyx only 5- 

 clefl, compressed and completely closed over the glandular-dotted utricle ; seed always 

 vertical, (lloubieva multitida, Moquin, & Ed. 2.) — Waste places. City of New 

 York (the station now seemingly extinct), and Philadelphia. Introduced iu 

 ballast from South America, not permanently established. 



3. BLITUM, Tourn. Elite. 



Flowers perfect, bractless. Calyx 3-5-parted, becoming fleshy or berry -like 

 in fruit; the genus also made to include some with calyx unchanged in fruit. 

 Stamens I - 5 : filaments filiform. Styles or stigmas 2. Seed vertical, com- 

 pressed-globular ; the embryo coiled into a ring quite around the albumen. — 

 Herbs, with petioled triangular or halberd-shaped and mostly sinuate-toothed 

 leaves. (The ancient Greek and Latin name of some insipid pot-herb.) 

 § 1 MOROCARPUS, Moench. Glabrous annuals or biennials, not mealy : Jlonrrs 

 in axillary heads, the upper ones ojlen spiked: calyx in fruit commonly becoming 

 fleshy or berry-like, nearly enclosing the utricle. 



1. B. maritimum, Nutt. (Coast Elite.) Stem angled, much branched; 

 leaves thickish, triangular-lanceolate, tapering below into a wedge-shaped base 

 and above into a slender j)oint, sparingly and coarsely toothed, the upper linear- 

 lanceolate; clusters scattered in axillary leafy s/iikes ; calyx-lobes 2-4, rather fleshy ; 

 stamen 1 ; seed shining, the margin acute. — Salt marshes, New Jersey to Mas- 

 sachusetts: salt springs, at Syracuse, New York {G. W. Clinton), and north- 

 westward. Probably a variety of B. rubrum of Eu. 



2. B. capit^tum, L. (Strawberky Elite.) Stem ascending, branch- 

 ing; leaves triangular and somewhat halberd shaped, sinuate toothed ; clusters 

 simple (large), interruptedly spiked, the up])er leafless ; stamens 1 -5 ; calyx berry- 

 like in fruit; seed ovoid, flattish, smooth, with a very narrow margin. — Dry 

 rich ground, common from W. New York to Lake Sujierior, and northward. 

 June. — Tiie calyx becomes pul])y and bright red in fruit, when the large clus- 

 ters look like Strawberries. (Eu.) 



§2. AGATIIOPHYTON, Mocpiin. Somewhat mealy : root perennial : flowers 

 iu clusters crowded in a terminal spike : calyx not fleshy, shorter than the half- 

 naked fruit. Intermediate between Blitum and Chenopodium. 



3. B. Eonls-IIknricus, Reichenljach. (Good-King-IIenrv.) Leaves 

 triangular-halbcrd-form ; stamens .">. (Chenopodium Eonus-IIenricus, L.) — 

 Around dwellings : scarce. (Adv. from Eu.) 



