422 CUENOrODIUM. [class v. ohdeu n. • 



a. Leaves with short trianguluv acute tectli. 



C urbicum, De Cand. — C melanospermum, Wallr. 



/5. intermedium, (Fig. 483.) Leaves sinuato-cleantatis ; teeth tri- 

 anguhn-, lanceolate, acuminate. 



C. intermedium, De Cand. — C. wrk'fMwi.— English Botany, t. 717. — 

 English Flora, vol. ii. p. 10.-— Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 142. — 

 Lindley, Synopsis, p. 215. 



Root fibrous. ISlem erect, scarcely branched, angular, fun'owej, 

 smooth, or somewhat mealy, from one to one and half feet high, green, 

 or often of a reddish hue, leafy. Leaves on channeled footstalks, 

 slightly dilated at the base, triangular, acute, more or less wedge- 

 shaped at the base, and the margins more or less deej^ly sinuated and 

 toothed in an irregular manner, of a light almost glaucous green, paler 

 beneath, with a mid-rib and lateral veins. Flotvers small, in crowded 

 globular clusters, more or less distant, on a common stalk, in a spikale 

 manner. Spikes terminal and axillary, erect, straight, shorter than 

 the leaves, approaching nearer the stem as they advance to maturity, 

 almost leafless, the terminal spike more branched than the others. 

 Perianth of five roundish ovate obtuse or slightly acute segments, pale 

 green, with lighter coloured margins. Stamens v/hh slout Jilamenls, 

 scarcely the length of the perianth and yellow two celled anthers. 

 Stylc3 short, two or three sometimes wanting. Fruit roundish, closely 

 invested with a pale thin membrane, and crowned by the persistent 

 styles. Seeds dark brown, smooth, or with the appearance of being 

 very finely dotted, shining, almost as big as rape seed, much larger 

 than the following species. 



Habitat, — Waste rubbishy places under walls, &c., about towns and 

 villages. 



Annual ; flowering in August and September. 



7. C. ru'brum, Linn. (Fig. 484.) Red Goosefoot. Leaves rhombo- 

 triangular, toothed and sinuated ; spikes erect, compound, and leafy > 

 seeds very small, smooth, roundish. 



English Botany, t. 1721. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 11. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. ii. p. 142. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 215. — Blitum 

 riibrum, Reich. 



Root fibrous. Stem erect, round, smooth, branched, and leafy, from 

 one to two feet high, mostly of a reddish colour, sometimes green, and 

 more or less striated or furrowed. Leaves on longish channeled foot- 

 stalks, scarcely dilated at the base, of a shining green, paler beneath, 

 with a stout mid-rib and lateral branched veins, the upper ones occa- 

 sionally slightly mealy, triangular, with a wedge-shaped base and acute 

 point, the margins coarsely toothed and sinuated, generally with one 

 larger tooth than the rest on the lower part on each side, hence some- 

 times hastate or tri-lobafc. Flotccrs small, greenish yellow, in densely 

 crowded oblong clusters, in long leafy very compound terminal and 



