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and conical, or occasionally with somewhat cymose branches, and with 
leaves nearly up to the apex, which quite removes the habit of the 
plant from C. urbicum, to which C. botryoides closely approximates. 
The seeds are quite undistinguishable from those of C. botryoides. 
The stem is striped, and often tinged with red, as are also the calyces, 
though occasionally green; the foliage is dark green, but not un- 
frequently it is tinzed with red. 
The var. Pseudo- -botryoides, from Cornwall and North Surrey, is 
seldom more than 2 to 4 inches high, but from the seed of the Surrey 
plant sown in his garden, Mr. H. C. Watson obtained plants 1 foot 
to 18 inches high, with the stems erect, and in other respects closely 
approximating to the more common form. This var. seems to have 
been mistaken for Smith’s C. botryoides by almost all recent authors. 
I do not venture to quote C. crassifolium, Hornm. as a synonym. 
Red Goosefoot. 
French, Ansérine rougedtre. German, Rother Ginsefuss. 
SPECIES IX—CHENOPODIUM GLAUCUM. Lim. 
Prats MCXCVIII. 
Blitum glaucum, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 699, Fries, Summ. Veg. 
Scand. p. 34. 
Annual. Stem decumbent or prostrate, more rarely erect, sparingly 
branched, especially at the base. Leaves rhomboidal-elliptical or 
elliptical or oblong-elliptical, coarsely serrate or sinuate-dentate, more 
rarely entire, the upper ones similar to the lower. Flowers in small 
glomerules, arranged in terminal and lateral lax or dense simple 
or slightly compound spikes, which are leafless, or leafy only at the 
base; spikes combined into long slender lax panicles, leafy throughout. 
Calyx segments keeled on the back, not wholly covering the fruit, 
with very narrow scarious margins. Stigmas short. Vertical seeds, 
about as numerous as the horizontal; the vertical ones small, bluntly 
keeled, shining, very finely shagreened; the horizontal ones larger, 
but in other respects similar. Stem, upper side of leaves, and calyx 
slightly shining, destitute of meal; under side of the leaves more or 
less thickly icthed with white me especially when young, at which 
time the leaves are quite white beneath. 
On manure heaps and in waste places and cultivated ground. 
Rare, and not persistent in its stations. It has occurred in most 
of the counties on the south coast of England, reported also from 
Glamorganshire, Yorkshire, and the ballast “hills at the mouth of the 
Tyne, and those on the Fifeshire coast; but is probably not truly 
indigenous, except in the south. 
