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or fewer, inserted in the bottom of the perianth. Ovanuni 1-seeded, usually 

 free. Sli//e 2 4-cleft, rarely simple. Stigmas undivided. Pericarp mem- 

 branous, valveless, seldom baccate. Embryo inarching a farinaceous albumen , 

 or spiral or forked, without albumen. Only distinguished from ^maran- 

 tliace^ in the insertion of the stamens. (G. I)o7i.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, or opposite, exstipulate^ deciduous or sub-ever- 

 jreen : entire or lobed. Flowers terminal. Shrubs, natives of the South of 

 Europe and North America. The genera are three, which are thus 

 contradistinguished : 



Chenopo^dium L. Flowers hermaphrodite. 

 J'triplex L. Flowers pohgamous. 

 DioVis Schrcb. Flowers monoecious. 



Genus I 



JCHENOPO'DIUM L. The Goosefoot. Lin. Syst. Pentandria Digynia. 



Mentification. Lin. Gen., 121., but with some modification since. 

 Kyiionymes. Salsbla sp."; Anserine, Pr. ; Gause Fuss, Ger. ; Chenopodio, Ital. 

 vJeiivation. From the Greek words chen, a goose, and podion, a little foot ; many of the species 

 having lai-ge angular leaves extremely like the webbed foot of a waterfowl. 



Gen. Char., S^c. Flowers bisexual. Calijx inferior, with 5 sepals, permanent. 

 Stamens 5, hypogynous. Anthers with round lobes. Styles 2. Stigmas 

 obtuse. Fruit a utricle, invested by the calyx. (G. Don.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous or sub-evergreen ; generally 

 lobed, bearing a friable unctuous scurf. Flowers axillary, in leafy spikes 

 or naked panicles, numerous, small, green. Shrubs, deciduous or sub- 

 evergreen ; natives of the South of Europe ; of the easiest culture in any 

 dry soil, and readily propagated by cuttings, 



n- 1. C. FRUTico''suM Schrad. The shrubby Goosefoot, or Stonecrop Tree. 



ientificttion. Schrader, according to G. Don in Hort. Brit. 



ijnonymcs. Saisbla fruticbsa im. Sp. PI. 324.; the shrubby Glasswort ; 



Sonde en Arbre, Fr. ; strauchartiges Salzkraut, Ger. ; 



Sopravvivolo legnoso, Ital. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 63-5. ; Flor. GrEEC, t. 255. ; 



and OMT figs. 1316. and 1317. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Shrubby, upright, ever- 

 green. Leaves semicylindrical, bluntish, 

 imbricate. (^Smith.) A low, sub-evergreen, 

 glaucous shrub. South of Europe, and 

 England, on the sea coast. Height 3 ft. 

 to 4 ft. Flowers greenish, axillary ; July \ 

 and August. ' 



Not unworthy of a place in gardens or 

 shrubberies, being sub-evergreen and tolera- 

 bly hardy, remarkable for the glaucous hue of 

 the leaves, and very durable. The branches 

 316. c&uticosum. are very brittle, and apt to break oiF. ,3,^ c. fmucosum. 



, - 2. C. PARViFoYiuM R. ^ S. The small-leaved Goosefoot. 



\entification. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 266. 



monymes. C. fruticbsum Bieb. m Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 1. p. 181., exclusively of all the synonymes ; C 



microph^Uum Bieb. in Suppl. to Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 1. p. 275. ; Salsdla fruticfisa Bieb. Cmp p. 149 



App. No. 22., Pall It. 3. p. 524. ; Suadda microphylla Pall. Illust. 3. t. 44. 



igravings. Pall. Ill, 3. t. 44. ; and oxirfig. 1318. 



?ec. Char., Sfc. Imperfectly evergreen, frutescent, much-branched, spreading, 

 glabrous, about 2 ft. high. Leaves taper, oblong, obtuse, glaucescent, fleshy ; 



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