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margins of lakes. Leaves all radical, linear and fleshy, slightly 

 channelled. Flowers white, male flowers on long stalks, female 

 flowers sessile among the leaves, and without a calyx. Bovey 

 Heath. Haldon. (E. B. t. 468.) P. vi. vn. 



SUB-CLASS IT. MONOCHLAMYDE^J. 

 (OED. LXIX.-LXXXVII.) 



OED. LXIX. AMAKANTHACEJE. 



OED. L X X.CHENOPODIACE.E!. 



'STJBOED. I. CYCLOLOBEM. 



TEIBE I. CHENOPODIE,E. 



BETA. BEET. 



B. vulgaris (common Beet.) On the seashore and waste 

 places near the sea. Root thick and fleshy ; stems numerous, 

 procumbent ; leaves succulent, triangularly ovate, narrowed at 

 the base into a footstalk ; the upper stem-leaves oblong, sessile, 

 all with wavy edges ; flower-spikes long, simple, and leafy ; flowers 

 in twos or threes, greenish-yellow ; calyx 5-partite ; no corolla. 

 B. maritima, Linn. Babington considers it should still retain 

 the last name as being a distinct species from the common Beet. 

 Common on our shores. Meadfoot. Paignton sands. Goodring- 

 ton. Teignmouth, etc. (E. B. t. 285.) P. vi.-ix. 



CHENOPODIUM. GM30SEFOOT. 



1. C. olidum (stinking Goosefoot.) Under walls and in 

 waste places. Stems numerous, spreading, branched, and leafy ; 

 leaves stalked, alternate, angularly ovate, covered, as is the whole 

 plant, with a greasy fetid down. Flowers in thickly clustered 

 spikes, greenish ; corolla, as in all the species of this genus, ab- 

 sent. Teignmouth. Chudleigh. (E. B. t. 1034.) A. vm. IX. 



2. C. polyspermum (many-seeded G.) In cultivated and 

 waste places. Stems prostrate and spreading ; leaves alternate, 

 stalked, ovate, blunt, dark green, and free from any mealiness. 

 Clusters of flowers small, in axillary spikes 5 flowers green. Seed 



