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C Boscianuin, Moquin.* (C. album, L., var. Bcscianum, Gray, in Manual.) 

 Goosefoot. 

 Stony Point, lake Madison, Blue Earth county, Oedge. South. 



C. urbkum, L. Goosefoot. 



Red river valley at Pembina, Havard. Infrequent. 



C. iirhicum, L., var. rhombifolium, Moquin. Goosefoot, 

 Stillwater, Miss Field. Infrequent, 



C. htfbridum,L, Maple-leaved Goosefoot. 

 Frequent, often common, throughout the state. 



C. Botrys, L. Jerusalem Oak. Feather Geranium. 



Northeastward, Clark; Minneapolis, Herrick ; Stillwater (plentiful), Miss Butler, 

 Miss Field. Infrequent. 



[C. ambrosioides, L., will probably extend to Minnesota.] 



C. rubrum, L., var. humile, Watson. (Blitum maritimum, Nutt.) 

 Coast Elite. 

 Lapliam. Northwest. [Var. humile, Watson. Smaller, prostrate or ascending : 

 leaves ovate to lanceolate, often hastate, an inch long or less, rarely toothed : flowers 

 in axillary or somewhat spicate clusters. Watson, Botany of Califor'nia.] 



C. capitatuiii, Watson. (Blitum capitatum, L.) Strawberry Elite. 



Stillwater, AfissFieZd," Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell; north of lake Superior, 

 Agassiz; Carlton county, and Minnesota Point, lake Superior (juice of the fruit used by 

 the Chippewa Indians for staining), Roberts. North. 



C. Bonus- Henricus, L. {Blitum Bonus-Henricus, Reich.) Good-King -Henry. 

 Lake of the Woods, Dawson. Eare. 



[Atriplex patula, L., var. hastata. Gray, and var. littoralis. Gray, will probably be 

 found on the shore of lake Superior in Minnesota.] 



CORISPERMUM, Ant. Jussieu. Bug-seed. 



C hyssopifoliiiin, L, Bug-seed. 



Minnesota Point (plentiful), also near Minneapolis, Roberts; northwest beach of 

 Mille Lacs (abundant), Upham; Eed river, Hooker, Watson. Local. 



SALICORNIA, Tourn. Glasswort. Samphire. 



S. herbacea, L. Glasswort. Samphire. 



In the vicinity of a salt spring on the bank of the Red river near Saint Vincent, 

 Say, Nuttall. Rare. 



SU^EDA, Forskal. Sea Elite. 



S. depressa, Watson .f Sea Elite. 



Lapliam. Red river valley near Saint Vincent (common), Upham; Pembina, dry 

 plains, CMckering. Northwest. 



* Chenopodium Bcscianum, Moquin, Erect, slender, 2 feet high, loosely branched, 

 nearly glabrous; leaves thin, oblong to linear-lanceolate, 1 to 2 inches long, acute, at- 

 tenuate into a long, slender petiole, the lower sinuate-dentate, or often all entire; 

 flowers very small, solitary, or in small clusters upon the slender branchlets ; calyx 

 green, not strongly carinate, partly covering the at length naked seed, which is ^4 line 

 broad. Watson's Revision of Chenopodium, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. ix. 



tSu^DA DEPKESSA. Watsou. Annual: low and mostly decumbent, branching from 

 the base, with usually short ascending leafy branchlets : leaves linear, broadest at 



