CHENOPODIACE®. 17 
herbaceous. Seeds all horizontal, rather small, sharply keeled all 
round, opaque, roughened with minute points. Stem and leaves 
shining, nearly destitute of white meal; calyx clothed with a little 
white meal. 
In cultivated ground and waste places, on manure heaps, and under 
walls. Rather rare, but generally distributed in England. It is said to 
have occurred in Forfarshire and near Glasgow, but it seems very 
doubtful if it be indigenous in Scotland. Very local in Ireland, where 
it has been found about Cork, Dublin, and once near Belfast. 
England, [Scotland?] Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stem 6 inches to 2 feet high, often dividing into several nearly 
equal branches at the base, which are commonly decumbent below, 
but whether its main divisions be solitary or several, they are usually 
branched above. Leaves somewhat fleshy, 1 to 3 inches long, the 
petiole generally shorter than the lamina, which is unequally inciso- 
serrate, with the teeth very sharp, and separated by a rounded sinus. 
Spikes rather short, distichously and cymosely branched, arranged in a 
panicle, the upper part of which is quite leafless. Calyx segments 
less strongly keeled on the back than in the two preceding species, 
and often permitting a portion of the fruit to be visible. Seed about 
the size of that of C. album, dull black, and with a sharp _hori- 
zontal keel all round. Stem striped with green and red or white; 
leaves deep green or bright green, with a greasy lustre, fleshy. 
Nettle-leaved Goosefoot. 
French, Ansérine des murs. German, Mauer-Giinsefuss. 
SPECIES VI-CHENOPODIUM HYBRIDOUM. Lin. 
Puate MCXCIII. 
C. angulosum, Lam. Fl. Fr. Vol. IIT. p. 249. 
C. stramoniifolium, Chev. Fl. Par. Vol. IT. p. 383. 
Stem erect, sparingly branched throughout; branches spreading. 
Leaves ovate or roundish-ovate, subcordate, acuminate, with 2 to 4 
angles or cuspidate teeth on each side, the sinus between the teeth 
entire and rounded; upper leaves narrower, and with much smaller 
teeth; the uppermost ones very minute, strapshaped. Flowers in 
rather large glomerules, arranged in lax ascending leafless terminal 
or lateral branched spikes or cymes; spikes or cymes combined into 
a large lax pyramidal or blunt-topped terminal panicle, which is 
leafless, or with only a very few leaves towards the base; in stunted 
plants with the panicle narrow and rather dense. Calyx segments 
rough and bluntly keeled on the back, not nearly covering the fruit, 
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