GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 



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the radical leaves perhaps severally formed and nourished by them. Stem 2-4 feet 

 high, sulcate-angled, somewhat paniculately branching. Radical-leaves 6-12 inches long ; 

 petioles 4-8 inches long, succulent, channeled above ; stem-l&zves lance-ovate, acute, petio- 

 late, smaller as mey ascend. Calyx purplish-brown, fleshy at base, finally indurated or 

 externally corky the segments keeled, incurved and subsaccate at apex. Seed depressed, 

 cochleate-orbicular, loosely farinaceous, enveloped in a purple membrane and lodged in a 

 bony cell at the base of the calyx. 

 Gardens and lots : cultivated. Native of Southern Euroj>e. Fl. July. Fr. September. 



FIG. 176. Summit of a branch of Wormseed (Chenopodium ambrosioides, var. antboJ 

 minticum). 



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