Pl.ex.mon, 16. CHENOPODEiE. 40. Blitimi. 279 



1. Beta mar itima. Sea beef. 

 Stem prostrate at bottom ; loiver leaves triangular, petio- 



late ; flowers solitary or in pairs ; lobes of the perigonium 



quite entire. 



Beta sjlvestris maritima, Rail Syn. 157 ; Park. 750. 

 Beta maritima, Lin. S. P. 322. 



Sea-shores ; perennial ; August. 



Root black, internally white; stems many, much branched 

 at the top ; flowers racemose. 



2. Beta vulgaris. Common beet. 

 Stem erect ; leaves ovate ; flowers 3 or 4 together. 



Beta alba, Ger. em. 318, 1. 

 Beta, Park. 487. 

 Beta vulgaris, Lin. S. P. 322. 

 Beta esculenta, Salish. Prod. 152. 

 Beta cicla, Murray Syst. Nat. 262. 

 Beta liortensis, 3Iill. Diet. 2, var. 



Cultivated ; biennial ; July and August, 



Leaves green. — Roots saccharine, very nutritive, used as 

 food for man and beast, and also to manufacture sugar, of 

 the same kind as cane sugar. 



^. rubricauUs. Leaves green with red veins; stem and 

 branches red. 



Beta rubra, Ger. e>». 318,2. 

 Beta vulgaris 3, var. Miller Diet. 



y. rubra. Leaves red. 



Beta rubra Romana, Ger. em. 31 9, 3. 

 Beta vulgaris a, Lin. S. P. 322. 

 Beta vulgaris 3, Miller Diet. 



5". albo-rubens. Root tuberous, red, internally white. 



Beta hybrida, Salisb. TV. 15. 

 Root of scarcity. Mangel wurzel, 



£. raposa. Root tuberous, red throughout. 



Beta vulgaris y, Lin. S. P. 322. 

 Beta raposa. Park. 489. 

 Tnrnep-ronted beef. 



^. lutea. Root yellow. 



Beta vulgaris o, Lin. S. P. 322. 



III. 42. SPINACHIA. Spinage. 



Flowers unisexual. — Male. Perigonium 5-parted; sta- 

 mens 5. — Female. Perigonium 2 or 4~parted ; styles 4 ; 

 iLtriculus upright, in the hardened and enclosing perigo- 

 nium; spermodermis simple, membranaceous; corculum an- 

 nular. — Flowers glomerate, axillary. 



