281 ORDER 100. CHENOPODIACE^E. 



cordate-hastate, with acute lobes ; outer sepal keeled and winded on the back ; fruit 

 smooth, black. Thickets. 3 12f. . A native form, 

 /3. scantlentt) has the raceme panicled and the sepals with very broad wings. 



21 1*. sagittatum L. Scratch-grass. Climbing, 3 5f, rough backwards; leaves 

 lance-sagittate ; flowers in small heads, whitish ; stamens 8 ; style 3. Wet. 



22 I*, arifolium L. Rough with reversed prickles, 3 5f ; leaves hastate, apex and 

 lobes pointed ; flowers racemed ; stamens 6 ; styles 2. Wet. 



9. FAGOPYRUM, Tourn. BUCKWHEAT. Calyx colored, equally 5- 

 parted, persistent, unchanged. Stamens 8, alternate with 8 honey-glands. 

 Styles 3, with capitate stigmas. Ach. 3-angled, much exceeding the calyx. 

 (D Leaves cordate-hastate. Flowers rose-white, in panicled racemes. 



1 F. esculentum Moench. Smoothish ; leaves with obtuse lobes ; flowers showy, 



numerous, sought by bees : achenia ovoid-triangular, wingless, black. Fields. 2 4f. 



2 F". TAUTARICUM. India Wheat. Glabrous; leaves broader than long, lobes acutish ; 



racemes axillary and terminal, scarcely panicled ; achenia lance-triangular, angles 

 einuate-dentate. rather obtuse ; calyx minute. Tartary. Cultivated. 



ORDER CV. PHYTOLACCACE^E. POKEWORTS 



Herbs with alternate, entire leaves and perfect, 5-parted flowers. Calyx 

 free, Stamens 5 30, alternate with the sepals when of the same number. 

 Ovary of 1 to several carpels, each 1-ovuled. Styles and stigmas as many 

 as carpels Fruit baccate or acheniate. Seeds erect, with the embryo 

 coiled around the albumen. 



Styles and carpels 5 12. Fruit baccate. Leaves exstiplate PHYTOLACCA. 1 



Style and carpel 1. Leaves with stipules. <i Berry globinar, nmooth RIVINA. 2 



a Acheniurn with 2- book 3 PKTIVKRIA. 3 



1. PHYTOLACCA, Tourn. POKE. GARGET-WEED. Calyx 5-parted. 

 Stamens 5 25. Styles 5 12. Berry depressed-globular, with as many 

 seeds as styles. Herbaceous. Racemes terminal, soon opposite the leaves. 

 P. decandra L. Stem stout, purplish, tall ; leaves ovate ; flowers with 10 stamens 



and 10 styles ; berries black, full of crimson juice. Hedges. 5 8f. July + . 



2. RIVINA, Plum. Calyx 4-parted, 3-bracted. Sta. 4 or 8. Berry at 

 last dry, 1-seeded, embryo a vertical ring. Shrubby, with racemes termi- 

 nal, soon lateral. 



R. la?vis L. Branching, smooth, fi 8f; Ivs. ovate; fls. rose-white, in long racemes' 

 stamens 4. Fla., and W. Herbage bright-green. 



3. FETIVERIA ALLIACEA L. Half-shrubby, 2 3f, with obovate-ob- 



tuse leaves and spicate flowers. Grows in S. Car. (Michaux), and S. to the tropics. 



ORDER CVI. CHENOPODIACE^E. CHENOPODS OR GOOSE-FOOTS. 



Herb* chiefly weed-like and homely, more or less fleshy, with alternate 

 exstipulate leaves. Bracts not scarious. Flowers greenish, regular. Caly~ 

 imbricated in bud. Stamens as many as, and opposite to the calyx lobes, o> 

 fewer. Ovary 2-styled, 1-celled, becoming a l-seeded, thin utricle or cary- 

 cpsis. Embryo coiled or spiral. 



