CHENOPODIACE^— GOOSEFOOT 

 FAMILY 



LAMB'S-QUARTERS. WHITE GOOSEFOOT 



Chenopddium album 



Annual. A common weed in gardens and waste 

 places, gray-green in general aspect. Everywhere. 

 Naturalized from Europe, also native to Asia. 



Stem. — Slender, pale green, erect, much branched, 

 one to six feet high. 



Leaves. — Rhombic-ovate, or the upper lanceolate, 

 narrowed at the base, three-nerved, dentate, sinuate 

 or lobed, or the upper entire; petioled or sessile, often 

 mealy. 



Flowers. — Minute, ' gray-green balls in terminal and 

 axillary spikes, simple or compound, open panicled. 



Calyx. — Two to five parted, enclosing the utricle in 

 fruit. 



Corolla. — Wanting. 



Stamens. — One to five. 



Pistil. — One; style two or three. 



Fruit. — Utricle containing a small, flat, shining seed. 



A common omnipresent weed, curiously enough 

 not generally known by name although it haunts 

 our gardens in company with the Pigweeds, Amaran- 

 thus hybridus and Amaranthus retroflexius , and lives 

 at ease on waste heaps and in barnyards. For its 

 common name, Lamb's-Quarters, I find no satisfactory 

 explanation. 



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