118 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Chamserops Martiana, Wallich. (Trachycarpus Martianus, H. Wend- 

 Land.) 



Ascends the mountains of Nepal to 8,000 feet. This Fan-palm 

 attains a -height of 50 feet, and is altogether a noble object. 

 Reaches higher altitudes in the Himalayas than any other species, 

 indeed where snow occurs or covers the soil four or five months 

 during the year. 



Chamserops Ritchieana, Griffith. (Nannorhops Eitchicana, H. Wend- 

 land.) 



Arid mountains of Afghanistan to 34 N. Seemingly the only 

 native palm there. Extensively used for cordage ; leaves also made 

 into baskets and mats ; fruit locally used like dates [Atkinson], 

 Has proved hardy even in England. Even young plants did not 

 suffer at a temperature of 17 F. in Florence [Dr. Beccari]. 



Chelidonium maJTis, Fuchs. 



The Celandine. Europe and Western Asia, wild to latitude 63 

 N. in .Norway. A perennial herb of medicinal value. Chemical 

 principles : chelerythrin and chelidonin ; also a yellow pigment, 

 chelidoxanthin. 



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 anthelminticum 

 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. Leichardt 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 virgatitm, Linne.) 



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

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

 The genus Blitum was reduced to Chenopodium by the writer in 

 Camel's Nuovo Giornale Botanico many years ago, and in 1864 by 

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



