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GOOD KING HENRY. Chenopodium bonus Henricus. 



Plate 3, fig. 15. 



Leaves triangular, entire. Flowers in compound leafless spikes. 

 On way-sides and waste places, flowering in June. Known 

 at once by the shape of the leaves, and by the plant being quite 

 upright, with many stems. The spikes of flowers are at the 

 sides, as well as the top of the stem, and without leaves mixing 

 with the flowers, though the side spikes arise where the leaf 

 does. The country people often boil this plant, when it tastes 

 much like spinach. It is called by them " Good Fat Hen." 



UPRIGHT GOOSE-FOOT. Chenopodium urbicum. 



Plate 3, fig. 16. 



Leaves triangular, toothed. Fl. in tufts, on long leafless spikes. 

 On dunghills, waste ground, &c., everywhere near towns. It 

 differs from the last in having its leaves deeply notched, and its 

 flowers not being collected together in such close bunches. It 

 flowers too at a much later season. 



RED GOOSE-FOOT. Chenopodium rubrum. 



Plate 3, fig. 17. 

 Leaves triangular. Flowers in thick tufts, on leafy spikes. 



Common on waste ground, flowering in the autumn. It 

 differs from the last in the spike of flowers being very thick, 

 compound, and leafy. The leaves too of the plant taper very 

 much towards the stalk, and the upper part only is deeply 

 notched. This is a very thick, upright, fleshy plant, possessing 

 no beauty, and more or less of a red color. 



WHITE GOOSE -FooT. Chenopodium album. 



Plate 3, fig. 18. 



Leaves ovate, mealy. Flowers in thick tufts, on leafy spikes. 

 The white mealy appearance of this plant, and its greasy feel, 

 directly point it out ; besides which its leaves are more oval 

 than in the last, the lower ones are notched in the same manner, 

 the upper ones oblong and quite without notches. Flowers in 

 summer and autumn. 



O. S. Shrubby Sea-side Goose-Foot, Fetid Goose-Foot, Many-Seeded 

 Goose-Foot. Many-Spiked Goose-Foot, Nettle-Leaved Goose-Foot, Maple- 

 Leaved Goose-Foot, Fig-Leaved Goose-Foot, and Oak-Leaved Goose- 

 Foot. Some of them are not uncommon about London. 



