CUENOPODIACER. 21 
Sus-Srecms I—Chenopodium botryoides. Sm. 
Prats MCXCV: 
Stems branched, especially from the base; the lateral branches 
elongate, spreading or curving upwards. Leaves rhombic or rhombic- 
deltoid, very thick and fleshy, entire, or rarely with a few shallow 
teeth. Glomerules of flowers in lax interrupted simple or slightly 
compound spikes, with spicate or subeymose branches, with minute 
leaves towards the base, leafless towards the apex; spikes combined 
into a lax pyramidal panicle destitute of leaves at the apex. 
In recently disturbed waste ground and damp places, and by the 
sides of ditches. Rare, and very local. About Yarmouth, on both 
the Norfolk and Suffolk sides of the water; also found by Smith at 
Lowestoft, Suffolk; in 1853 I found it abundantly on the embank- 
ment about Shorne Battery, below Gravesend, after the surface of the 
embankment had been disturbed; and in 1863 Mr. H. C. Watson found 
it plentifully in a damp hollow where heaps of seaweed are collected 
after storms, in Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate; and in this locality, 
where it grows intermixed with C. eu-rubrum, I have procured it every 
year up to 1866. It is said to occur in Essex, which is not unlikely, 
but I have seen no specimen from thence. 
England. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stem bluntly angular, 6 inches to 3 feet high, erect, with the 
lower branches usually decumbent at the base. Leaves 1 to 3 inches 
long, very thick, fleshy, and brittle, 3-nerved at the base. Spikes 
resembling those of C. urbicum, very long, with the glomerules not 
contiguous, the lower with short branches or minute leaves at the base, 
the upper glomerules with merely rudimentary leaves. Flowers very 
numerous. Panicles quite destitute of leaves at the apex, very lax. 
Seeds chestnut, not above 1, inch in diameter. Leaves pale yellowish 
green, often tinged with red; stem striped with white or red; calyx 
green. or red. 
This plant bears much resemblance to C. urbicum, but the stem is 
more branched and the branches more spreading, the leaves fleshy 
and broader, the calyx very rarely with so many as 5 segments, and 
the seeds are almost all horizontal, and very much smaller; the spikes 
also are not nearly so erect, so that the panicle is wider at the base, 
and the glomerules are larger. 
Many-clustered Goosefoot. 
French, Ansérine botride. German, Weichhaariger Génsejuss. 
