22 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Sus-Srecres I.—Chenopodium eu-rubrum. 
Prares MCXCVL MCXCVIL. 
C. rubrum, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1721. 
Stems simple or branched at the base, the lateral branches com- 
monly short and erect or ascending. Leaves triangular or rhomboidal- 
triangular or rhomboidal, rather thin, irregularly sinuate-serrate, more 
rarely nearly entire. Glomerules of flowers in dense continuous 
simple or compound spikes, with very dense spicate or subcapitate 
branches, with leaves at the base of each branch; spikes combined 
with rather dense narrow panicles, leafy up to the apex. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Prats MCXCVI. 
Stem stout, slightly branched; branches short, suberect, or ascending. 
Leaves triangular, coarsely sinuate-serrate. Panicles dense, with short 
very dense spicate branches. 
Var. 2, Pseudo-botryoides. Wats. 
Prats MCXCVII. 
C. botryoides, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 287 (non Sm.). . 
C. rubrum, var. botryoides, Avct. Plur. 
Stem slender, decumbent, with elongate lateral branches. Leaves 
rhomboidal or rhomboidal-triangular, subhastate, otherwise nearly 
entire, or with a very few teeth on each side. Spikes very short, 
simple, or with the branches short and spicate or subcapitate. 
On heaps of manure and in rich cultivated ground, and in waste 
places where the soil has been recently disturbed. Rather common, 
and generally distributed in England. Rare in Scotland, and probably 
not native north of the Forth of Clyde. Very local and rare in 
Ireland, where it is confined to the south and east coast. Var. 6 by 
the sides of pools at Loo, Cornwall; near Thames Ditton, Surrey; and 
on sandy coasts at Deal, Kent; and Hunstanton, Norfolk. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
A very variable plant, but usually less branched, or, at least, with 
the lateral branches shorter, than in C. botryoides. Leaves varying 
from to 5 inches long, toothed or nearly entire, but thinner and less 
brittle than in C. botryoides; the principal difference, however, lies in 
the inflorescence, the spikes in C. eu-rubrum being short, very compact, 
