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Chelone glabra, Linne. 



North- America. The " Balmony." A perennial herb, which has 

 come into therapeutic use. 



Chenopodium ambrosioides, Linne. 



Tropical and sub-tropical America. " Mexican Tea " and 

 " Worm-seed." An annual medicinal herb. Chenopodium anthel- 

 minticum seems to be a perennial variety of this species. Easily 

 naturalised. 



Chenopodium auricomum, Lindley. 



Australia, from the Darling-River to Carpentaria and Arnhem's 

 Land. A tall perennial herb, furnishing a nutritious and palatable 

 spinage. Dr. Leichhardt alludes to it as an Atriplex. It will live 

 in arid desert-regions. It is one of the " Blue Bushes " of the 

 squatters, who value it as a nutritive and wholesome pastoral plant. 

 Several other species of Chenopodium, among them the European 

 C. bonus Henricus (Linne) and C. Californicum (S. Watson) afford 

 fair spinage, but they are annual. 



Chenopodium Blitum, F. v. Mueller. (Blitum virgatum, Linne.) 



From South-Europe to Middle Asia. An annual herb, in use 

 there as a cultivated spiiiage-plant. The fruits furnish a red dye. 

 The genus Blitum was reduced to Chenopodium by the writer in 

 Caruel's Nuoro Giornale Botanico many years ago, and in 1864 by 

 Dr. Ascherson, who gave to B. virgatum the name Chenopodium 

 foliosum C. capitatum, (Hlitu n capitatum, Linne) may not be 

 really a distinct species. Nyman regards its nativity unascertained. 

 Some of this group of plants are useful to anglers, attracting fish, 

 when thrown into rivers or lakes. 



Chenopodium nitrariaceum, F. v. Mueller. 



Interior of Australia, especially in localities occasionally humid, 

 reaching in some places the south-coast. A somewhat woody, tall 

 " Salt-bush," liked particularly by sheep. Extolled also by Mr. 

 Fred. Turner as cropped down so closely, to allow of recuperation 

 only with difficulty. The plant might be transferred to the genus 

 Rhagodia. 



Chenopodium Quinoa. WilldenoAv. 



New Granada, Peru, Chili. An annual herb. Admitted here 

 as a savory and wholesome spinage-plant, which can be grown so 

 quickly, as to become available during the short summers of even 

 the highest habitable alpine latitudes. In Peru the seeds are used 

 for a nutritious porridge [Tschudi, Markham], 



