GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. 271 
1. CHENOPO’DIUM, L. Lancia 
(Gr. Chen, a goose, and Pous, podos, a fi 1 th f the leaves.] 
Flowers perfect. Calyx 5-cleft, eae 2-4-cleft or parted, with the 
lobes sometimes keeled, but not appendaged nor becoming seule, 
d sed fruit y 5; fil 
more or less pee pak the depres: . Stam an 
filiform. Styles 2, rarely 3. Seed horizontal (some mes vertical in N i 
3.), lenticular ; embryo partially or stony coiled at the mealy albumen 
eeds, mostly annuals, usually white mealiness or gla parr 
Flowers sessile in small prs vebllethed in speked panicles, blooming 
ut the summ 
r. 
* Leaves strongly and sharply-toothed (mealiness obscure or none), on slen- 
der petioles ; calya-lobes slightly keeled. 
1. C. hy’bridum, L. Leaves green on both sides, cordate-ovate, acumi- 
nate, eae ae remotely dentate ; racemes loosely panies ‘leafless. 
noi D CHENOPODIUM. Maple-leaved Goosefoot. 
2-4 feet high, rather slender, angular and striate, much branched. Leaves 2-4 
nches long, thin, br ight een ; doles 1-2 inches in len neth. Flowers pan siete, tho 
sshatsmhni ey Mose j terminal panicle long and loose, with divaricate branc The 
smooth calyx-lobes k: eeled. Seed shar p-edged, the thin pericarp adbering mates it. 
ahiogd dwellings and along streams ; common. Native of Europe. June-August. 
bs. A common weed with a heavy odor, like that of Stramonium. 
* * Leaves toothed, Kowuttt led, Raia tas “ 
nearly entire, more or less wh: aly a 
well as the flowers ; sa li ” diindly y 
keeled. 
2. C. al’bum, L. Leaves rhomboid-ovate, 
erose-dentate, entire and_ taperi ing towards 
the base,—the upper ones oblong-lanceolate, 
entire ; racemes erect, branched, somewhat 
le 
WHITE ra cacciane Lamb’s Quarters. 
Goosefoo 
Fr. “Amen blanche. Germ. Der Gaense- 
"Root annual. Stem 3-5 hide high, rather stout. 
angular, often striped Ad es ow and green, some- ; 
times h, — ves 1-8 inches long, a 
covered with very min “cap-like sca “ee ; 
cous or meal _appearan 
ong. Flowers in p voce! clusters, Calyz heat erg 
§-angled by the prominent keels of the incurved segments, eciaaial and glaucous, 
Seed dark purple or nearly black depen smooth and shining. 
Fic, 173, An enlarged flower of the Common Goosefoot ncaa mgt og 174, The > 
mame divided. 15. A section through the see, showing the Papo y ee AE 
