LXXXVIII. 



CHENOPODIUM OLIDUM. 



Stinking Goosefoot. 



Class V. Pentandria.— 0/Y/er II. Digynia. 

 Nat. Ord. CnENOPODEiE. 



Gen. Char. Perianth single, inferior, five-cleft, per- 

 sistent, embracing the fruit. Seed solitary, orbicular. 



Spec. Char. Stem diffuse. Leaves ovate-rhomboid, en- 

 tire. Flowers in dense, clustered, axillary spikes. 



SYNONTMES. 



''Atriplix fcetida. Bauh. Pin. 118. 



Atriplex olida. Ger. Em. 327- Park Theair. 749. 



Blitum fcetidum, Vulvaria dictum. Rail St/n. 156. 

 ^a^»« i Garosmus. Dod. Pempt. 605. 



Chenopodium vulvaria. Lin. Sp. PI. 321, 



Chenopodium olidum. Curt. Lond. t. 20. Eng. Fl. ii. p. 18. 

 (^ Eng. Bot. t. 1034. 



French Vulvaire ; Arroche puante. 



Italian .... Vulvaria. 



Spanish . . . Vulvaria ; Armuella hedionda. 



German.... Hundsmetten ; Stinkender Gansefuss. 



^"'^* Stinkend Melde ; Stinkend Ganzewoot. 



Swedish .... Stceggan. 



Description.— The root is annual, small, and fibrous. The 

 stems are diffuse, channelled, with procumbent branches, and 

 from six to twelve inches in lengtli. The leaves are numerous, 

 small, ovate, approaching to rhomboid, entire, greasy to the 

 touch, and covered with a greyish, pulverulent, fetid substance. 

 The flowers are very small, of a light greenish colour, and ar- 

 ranged in dense clustered spikes in the axils of the leaves. 



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