24 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
England, [Scotland.] Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stems usually decumbent, or even prostrate, 3 inches to 2 feet long, 
but sometimes erect, and 3 inches to 2 feet high. Leaves very gradually 
attenuated into the petioles, the largest 1 to 2 inches long, usually scal- 
loped at the edges. Spikes } to 1} inches long, consisting of minute 
glomerules, which are usually slightly separated, the lower glomerules 
only with leaves at the base. Calyx segments varying from three 
to five in number, even in the flowers with horizontal seeds, which are 
not all of the same size, but diminished gradually from the largest 
size, =! inch, down to the vertical seeds, which are the smallest, and 
about =!; inch in diameter; the colour is chestnut, and the margin 
has a distinct but not very sharp keel. The stem is striped with 
green and white, the upper side of the leaves pale bright green, the 
under side glaucous or nearly white. 
A plant found at St. Sampson’s, Guernsey, by Mr. H. C. Watson, in 
1865, has the leaves nearly entire, or only repand, which character 
is retained in cultivation; the glomerules are also much larger and 
fewer than in the ordinary form. 
Oak-leaved Goosefoot. 
French, Ansérine glauque. German, Meergriiner Giinsefuss. 
SPECIES X-CHENOPODIUM BONUS-HENRICUS. Linn. 
Pratre MCXCIX. 
Blitum Bonus-Henricus, Reich. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p. 582. Moq.-Tand. in D.C. Prod. 
Vol. XIII. Part II. p. 84. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 698. Fries, 
Summ. Vee. Scand. p. 654. 
Agathophyton Bonus-Henricus, Mog.-Tand. Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. ii. Vol. I. p. 291. 
Perennial. Rootstock fleshy, many-headed. Stem erect or decumbent 
only at the base, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves triangular or 
deltoid-triangular, hastate or sagittate-hastate, with the cusps spreading 
or reflexed, acute or subacute, entire or repand, sometimes with 1 or 
2 teeth on each side, the upper ones narrower and subrhomboidal. 
Flowers in short dense simple or slightly compound lateral and terminal 
leafless spikes; spikes combined with a very long slender panicle, 
destitute of leaves, except at the very base. Calyx segments not 
keeled on the back, not wholly covering the fruit, with broad scarious 
margins, denticulate at the apex. Stigmas elongate. Seeds nearly 
all vertical, large, not keeled, slightly shining, nearly smooth. Stem 
and under side of the leaves sparingly clothed with vesicular pellucid 
meal; calyx destitute of meal. 
In waste places, by roadsides, principally near villages, and by farm- 
yards. Not uncommon, and generally distributed in England and the 
south of Scotland, reaching north to Ross, Moray, and Dumbarton; 
