MACLOSKIE : CHENOPODIACE./E. 359 



7. CHENOPODIUM FICIFOLIUM Smith. 



Annual. Stem herbaceous, erect, striate, branching. Leaves with 

 slender and long petioles, ascending, deltoid, basi-cuneate, obtuse or 

 acutish, sinuate, subdentate, thin, farinose, glaucous-green, paler under- 

 neath ; the inferior leaves hastate-subtrilobate, dentate, the upper sub- 

 rhombic-oblong, the uppermost linear-lanceolate, entire. Racemes pan- 

 iculate, rather lax, and nearly leafless. Fruiting calyx completely closed, 

 acutely carinate. Seed with an obtuse margin, excavate-punctulate, 

 slightly shining. 



(Europe); S. Patagon., near Rio Chico and Rio Sta. Cruz. "Leaves 

 whitish-farinose, especially underneath. Seeds lenticular, black, shining, 

 margin sometimes obtuse, sometimes acute, smooth or obsoletely sub- 

 punctulate, 1-1.15 mm - diam." (Speg.) 



8. C. FUEGIANUM Speg. 



(Chenopodiastmm.} Entire-leaved, farinose, odorless, small. Stem 

 mostly procumbent, slender, terete. Leaves petioled, minute, rhomboid, 

 obtuse, coarsely membranous. Flowers glomerulate, axillary. Calyx in 

 fruit with the keel not closed. Seed midsized, obtuse-margined, shining. 



Chubut; S. Patagon., by Rio Sta. Cruz; Fuegia, Punta Anegada in 

 Elizabeth I., on maritime dunes. 



9. C. GLAUCUM Linn. 



Succulent annual, much branched. Leaves slender-petioled, oblong to 

 lanceolate, subsessile upwards, mealy underneath, the lower sinuate- 

 toothed. Flowers in small, axillary clusters, or panicled above. Seed 

 minute, rugose. 



(Eur., nat. in N. Amer.) 



C. GLAUCUM DIVARICATUM Hook. f. 



Prostrate, with slender divaricate branches. 



Chonos Archip., not northwards in the Andes. N. Patagon. 



10. C. HIRCINUM Schrad. (C. bonariense Tenore.) 



A depauperate, simple, erect form, with leaves coarsely 5-7-toothed on 

 each side. Young leaves farinose on the two surfaces, at length glabrous 

 on the upper surface. 



