364 CHENOPODIAOE^:. (GOOSEFOOT FA.MILY.) 



sparingly or slightly toothed; racemes spiked-paniclcd, mostly dense; seed 

 sharp-edged. Varies exceedingly in different situations, more or less white- 

 mealy : a narrow and green-leaved variety, with slender racemes, is C. viride, 

 L. Very common. (Nat. from Eu.) 



if # * # Leaves sinuate- or pinnatijid-toothed, white-mealy underneath : calyx-lobes 

 not keeled, not perfectly enclosing the fruit, sometimes only 4-2, and then the seed 

 commonly vertical. 



7. C. OLAtrcuM, L. (OAK-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT.) Stems ascending or 

 prostrate, much branched (6' -12' high); leaves oblong, obtuse, smooth and 

 pale green above; racemes spiked and simple, dense; seed sharp-edged. 

 Philadelphia, Dr. Bromfidd. Lancaster, Penn., Porter. Roxbury, Mass., D. 

 Murray. (Illinois and Wisconsin.) (Adv. from Eu.) 



$ 2. BOTRYOIS, Moquin. (AMBRINA, Moquin, in part.) Not mealy, but 

 more or less viscid-glandular and pleasant-aromatic : seed sometimes vertical when 

 the calyx is only 2 - 3-cleft ; embryo forming only or f of a ring. 



8. C. B6TRYS, L. (JERUSALEM OAK. FEATHER GERANIUM.) Glan- 

 dular-pubescent and viscid ; leaves slender-petioled, oblong, obtuse, sinuato- 

 pinnatifid ; racemes cymose-diverging , loose, leajless; fruit not perfectly enclosed; 

 seed obtusely margined. Escaped from gardens. (Adv. from Eu.) 



9. C. AMBROSioloES, L. (MEXICAN TEA.) Smoothish ; leaves slightly 

 petioled, oblong or lanceolate, repand-toothed or nearly entire, the upper taper- 

 ing to both ends ; spikes densely flowered, leafy, or intermixed with leaves ; fruit 

 perfectly enclosed in the calyx ; seeds obtuse on the margin. Waste places; 

 common, especially southward. (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) Passes into 



Var. ANTHELMfNTicuM. (WoRMSEED.) Root perennial (?) ; leaves more 

 strongly toothed, the lower sometimes almost laciniate-pinnatifid ; spikes mostly 

 leajless. (C. anthelmmticum, L.) Common in waste places southward. 

 (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



3. ROUBIEVA, Moquin. ROUBIEVA. 



Calyx oblong-urn-shaped, 5-toothed, in fruit enclosing the glandular- dotted 

 utricle like a small pod. Filaments short and flat. Seed vertical. Otherwise 

 like Chenopodium, 2. A diffusely much-branched perennial, with small 1-2- 

 pinnatifid leaves, and axillary clustered flowers. (Named for G. J. Roubieu, a 

 French botanical writer.) 



1. B. MULTfFiDA, Moquin. (Chenopodium multifidum, L.) Waste 

 places, New York, in and around the city, J. Carey. (Adv. from Trop. Amer.) 



4. BL.ITUM, Tourn. ELITE. 



Flowers perfect, bractless. Calyx 3 - 5-parted, either unchanged or becom- 

 ing juicy and berry-like in fruit, not appendaged. Stamens 1-5: filaments 

 filiform. Styles or stigmas 2. Seed vertical, compressed-globular ; the embryo 

 coiled into a ring quite around the albumen. Herbs, with petioled triangular 

 or halberd-shaped and mostly sinuate-toothed leaves. (The ancient Greek and 

 Latin name of some insipid pot-herb.) 



