<}14 OBDEU 105. CHKNOrODIAOE^E. 



lobes, glandular-pubescent, glaucous green, the floral bract-like ; fls. cymous-pan 

 culate, in long ascending, raceme-like panicles ; seed smooth, nearly globular. - 

 3) Plant 1 to 2f high, branched from the base. Lvs. few. 1 to 2' long, petioles 

 half as long. Fls. innumerable, minute, clammy, covering nearly the whole plant, 

 jn. Aug. Strongly fragrant of turpentine. 



4. ROUBIE'VA, Moq. (Named for G. J. Roubicu, a French botan- 

 ist.) Calyx oblong-urceolate, 5-toothed, in fruit rugous and inclosing 

 the utricle like a capsule ; stamens 5 ; styles and stigmas 3 ; seed len^ 

 ticular, vertical, embryo a complete ring. 2 A diffusely branched, pu- 

 bescent herb, with alternate, nmltifid Ivs. and small green fls. (Chcno- 

 poclium, L.) 



R. multifida Moq. Waste grounds, waysides about the city of N. Y. (Holton). 

 A strongly-scented, prostrate herb, 1 to 2f long. Lvs. small, 1' less or more long, 

 pinnatitid with oblong lobes. Fls. numerous, glomerate, axillary, sessile, ia 

 bracted, panicled racemes. Fruit nearly 1" long. S. America. 



5. BLMUM, Tonrn. BLITE. Calyx 3 to 5-parted, finally un- 

 changed or becoming juicy and berry-like in fruit ; stamens 1 to 5, with 

 filiform filaments ; styles 2, utricle compressed, inclosed in the calyx ; 

 seed vertical, embryo a complete ring. CD Lvs. alternate, petiolate. 

 Fls. glomerate. 



Heads (slomcrules) axillary, subspicato above. Cal. thickened in fruit Stig. united. Nos. 1, 2 

 Heads funning a dense, terminal spike. Calyx dry. Stiguias distinct No. 3 



1 B. capitatum L. STRAWBERRY ELITE. Lvs. triangular-hastate, toothed; hds. 

 in terminal, interrupted, leafless spikes ; stam. 1 to 5 ; fr. consisting of the red- 

 dened flowers, appearing like strawberries, full of a purple juice,, taste insipid; seed 

 dull. Va. to Arc. Circle. A weed-like plant growing in fields, and sometimes 

 cultivated in gardens as a flower, or a culinary. Sts. purplish-striped, branching, 

 1 to 2f high. Heads of fls. sessile, near together, on the branches and summit 

 of the stem. Jn. f 



2 B. maritimum K"utt. Much branched, angular; Ivs. lanceolate, attenuate at 

 each extremity, incisely dentate; hds. axillary, sessile, sp-icate; cal. somewhat 

 fleshy ; stam. 1 ; seed shining. A coarse, unsightly plant, in salt marshes, N. Y. 

 to N. J. St. 1 to 2f high, very branching. Lvs. fleshy, with 2 or more large* 

 teeth each side. Fls. very numerous and minute, becoming thickish in fruit. 

 Seed much flattened. Aug. 



3 B. Bonus-Henricus Reichenb. GOOD KING HENRY. Plant mealy, ascend- 

 ing, subsimple ; Ivs. triangular-hastate, entire or sinuate, green ; glomerules 

 forming a terminal, leafless spike, not fleshy in fruit; stam. 5. Waysides, Can. 

 N. Eng., rare. Eur. 



6. ATRIPLEX, Gaert. Flowers monoecious or dioecious. $ Bract- 

 less ; calyx 3 to 5-scpaled ; stamens 3 to 5, hypogynous ; pistil rudi- 

 mentary ; $ ovary 2-styled, with no stamens, inclosed between 2 

 leaf-like bracts, or in some species partly furnished with a 5-sepaled 

 calyx without bracts; fruit compressed, inclosed; seed vertical (hori- 

 zontal when the calyx is present), embryo annular. Herbs or shrubs, 

 usually clothed with scurf or mealiness, with alternate, petiolate Ivs,. 

 and densely glomerate-spiked green fls. 



1 A. hastata L. Ascending, diffusely branched ; Ivs. alternate or subopposite, 

 triangular hastate, sinuately toothed or nearly entire, the tipper lanceolate, entire ; 

 fruit bracts triangular-deltoid, slightly muricate, margin denticulate or entire. 

 Marshes and waste ground?, N.Y. to Ga. Sts. 1 2f. long, slriate with green. 

 Lvs. including the petiole 1 3' long, ihin and green (mealy in marshes). Fls. in 

 glomerate axillary and terminal racemes, $ and $ mixed. Aug. Sept. 



(3.1 OBLONGIFOLIA. Lvs. all oblong-lanceolate, scurfy-dotted ; bracts very 

 large in fruit ; stem rigid, erect, If. or more. Lake shores, N. Y. (Hankenson.) 



