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85. Coria'ndrum. Linn, Coriander. 



1. C. * sativum, L. (common Coriander). — E. Bat. t. 67. 



Fields and waste places, about Ipswich and in Essex, &c. Fl. June. 

 0. — This is the only true species of the genus, and is well known as a 

 medicinal plant. The seeds are highly aromatic, and sold enveloped in 

 sugar as Coriander comfits. Stem erect, leafy. Lower leaves bipin- 

 nate ; the pinnae pinnatifid with broad, wedge-shaped, toothed segments : 

 the upper leaves gradually more compound, with the segments very 

 narrow and linear, those of the uppermost leaves nearly setaceous. 

 Fruit very curious ; each carpel is hemispherical ; on its inner and flat 

 side having a projecting margin, which so combines with the opposite 

 one as to leave no line or furrow between the two, and they form a com- 

 plete little ball or globe ; having, however when quite ripe, 10 obscure 

 elevated lines or ribs. 



86. Chenopodium. Linn. Goose-foot. 



'* Leaves semicylindrical ; flowers xoilh two bracteas each. 



1. C. fruticdsut7i, Sclirad. {shrid)hi/ sea-side Goose-foot); leaves 

 semicylindrical, styles often 3 combined at the base, stem shrub- 

 by. — Salsola fruticosa, L. — E. Bol. t. 635. 



On the Norfolk coasts, especially at Cley ; and those of Suffolk, Dor- 

 setshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall: but rare. FL July, Aug. I4. — 3 

 f. and more high, with many erect, leafy branches. Flowers in small 

 axillary clusters, sometimes solitary. Calyx unchanged in fruit, as in 

 the following species. 



2. C. maritimum, L. {anmtal sea-side Goose foot); leaves semi- 

 cylindric d a little tapering upwards, styles 2, stem herbaceous. 

 E. Bot, t. 633. 



Sea-shore, frequent. Fl. July, Aug. 0. — This has quite the habit of 

 the last species : but is much smaller and an annual. Flowers solitar3', 

 or two in the axils of the leaves, and each subtended by two small, 

 ovate, acute, narrow bracteas. Seeds horizontal. Wils. 



** Leaves plane, widivided ; bracteas under each flower none. 



3. C. olidiim, Curt, {stinking Goose foot); leaves ovato-rhom- 

 boid entire, flowers in dense clustered spikes, stem diffuse. E. 

 Bot. t. 1034. — C. vulvaria, Linn. 



Waste places and under walls, especially near the sea. Fl. Aug. . 

 — Leaves small, petiolate, greasy to the touch and covered with a pul- 

 verulent substance, which, when bruised, yields a detestable odour, re- 

 sembling that of putrid fish. Seeds horizontal. Wi/s. 



4. C. jjolyspermum, L. (many-seeded Goose foot); leaves ovate 

 entire, spikes elongated subcymose. Hook. Scot. i. p. 83. — a. 

 stems all prostrate, leaves obtuse, spikes cymose leafless. C. 

 polyspermum, E. Bot. t. 1480. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 15.— (3. stem 

 erect, leaves acute, spikes leafy scarcely cymose. C. polysper- 

 mum. Curt. Lond. t. 17. — C. acutijolium, E. Bot. t. 14s0. E. 

 Fl. V. ii. p. 15. 



a. Cornwall. — /3. not unfrequent in waste places and among rubbish. 

 FL Aug. Sept. ©.— The spikes oi fiowers are more or less cymose. 



