GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 365 



* # Pigweeds, etc. Plant mealy or (jlabrons, ncvpr hairy or aromatic. 



•*- Leaves narrow, entire or someichat sinuate-dentate ; pericarp easily 

 separating from the seed. 



C. Bosci^num, Moq. From N. Y., W. and S. ; erect, 2°, and slender, 

 nearly glabrous; leaves oblong or linear-lanceolate, narrowed into a 

 slender petiole ; tiowers in small cluster.s or solitary. ® 



-t- H- Leaves broader and (in ours) prominently sinuate or lobed; peri- 

 carp persistent. 



t-i- 2/ Leaves triangular-hastate. 



C. Bbnus-ffenr)cus, Linn. Good-King-Henry. Mercury (sometimes 

 degenerated into "Makkery"). Cult, in some old gardens as a pot 

 herb, and sparingly escaped ; slightly mealy ; calyx fully inclosing the 

 fruit, the seed vertical ; leaves triangular and partly halberd-shaped ; 

 flower clusters crowded in an interrupted terminal spike. Eu. 



•*-+++ ® Leaves not hastate. 



= Plant erect, mostly tall. 



II Foliage bright green, the leaves thin. 



C. hybridum, Linn. Maple-leaved P. Waste grounds ; unpleas- 

 antly scented like Stramonium, bright green throughout ; the widely 

 branching stem 2°-4° high ; the thin large leaves triangular and heart- 

 shaped, sinuate and angled, the angles extended into a few taper-pointed 

 coarse teeth ; racemes in loose and leafless panicles ; calyx lobes keeled. 



C. murale, L. Loos^^ly branched, lower ; leaves rhomboid-ovate and 

 acute, coarsely and sharply unequally toothed ; spikes or racemes diverg- 

 ing ; calyx lobes scarcely keeled. N. Eng., W. and S. Eu. 



II II Foliage more or less lohite-mealy, particularly beneath, the leaves 

 thickish. 



C. urbicum, Linn. Only slightly mealy, erect-branched, l°-3° ; leaves 

 triangular and acute, coarsely and sharply many-toothed ; erect spikes 

 crowded in a long narrow panicle ; calyx lobes not keeled. Throughout. 

 Eu. 



C. Album, Linn. Common Pigweed, Lamr's-quartkrs. One of the 

 commonest of weeds, in all cultivated grounds, and variable ; erect, 1^- 

 10° ; leaves rhomb-ovate to lanceolate, at least the lower ones angular- 

 toothed ; spikes dense and panicled ; calyx lobes strongly keeled. Eu. 

 (Les.sons, Fig. 386.) 



= = Plant spreading, mostly prostrate on the ground. 



C. glaOcum, Linn. A foot or less high, glaucous and mealy ; leaves 

 sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, obtuse; flowers in axillary spiked clusters. 

 Frequent. Eu. 



* * * Aromatic Goosefoots. Minutely glandular or pubescent, aro- 

 matic-scented; not mealy or scurfy ; the seed sometimes vertical. (T) @ 



C. Bdtrys, Linn. Jkrisalem Oak or Feather Geraniitm. Gardens 



and some roadsides ; low, spreading, almost clammy-pubescent, sweetr- 

 scrnted ; leaves sinuate-pinnatifld, slender-petioled ; racemes loosely 

 corynibed. Eu. 



C. ambrosioldes, Linn. Mexican Tea, Wormseed. Waste grounds, 

 e.spt'cially 8.; rather .stout, sinoothi.sh, strong-scented ; leaves oblong or 

 lanceolate, varying from entire to cut-pinnatitid, nearly sessile ; sjiikes 

 dense, leafy or leafless. This, especially the more cut-leaved and elon- 

 gated-spiked vnr. anthelminticum, Gray, is used as a vermifuge, and 

 yields the vornisced oil. Trop. Amcr. 



