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small, not keeled, rather opaque, roughened with minute tubercles. 
Stem, leaves, and especially the calyx sparingly clothed with white 
meal, which is most abundant when the plant is young. 
In cultivated ground and waste places, chiefly in the vicinity of 
towns. Rare. It has occurred in Dorset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, 
Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, Cambridge, York, Durham, and Northum- 
berland. Very local in Ireland, where it has been found principally 
about Dublin and Belfast. 
England, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
(. ficifolium resembles C. album, var. viride, in the branching of 
the stem, which is 9 inches to 3 feet high. The leaves, however, have 
more slender and much longer petioles, especially the upper ones ; 
the lamina is much more parallel-sided, more abruptly contracted 
and obtuse at the apex, and all the leaves, except the upper ones, 
are subhastate, or sometimes distinctly 3-lobed, when the basal teeth 
are much elongated. The glomerules are smaller, closer together, 
though not nearly so much, so as in C. album, var.«. The spikes 
are sometimes nearly simple with the branches short, or, in luxuriant 
specimens, cymosely branched, The calyx segments have very narrow 
scarious borders. The seed is considerably smaller than in C. album, 
black and distinctly roughened. The plant has generally more meal 
on it than ©. album, var. viride, but less than C. album, var. candicans. 
Both C. album and C. ficifolium have often a purple blotch on the 
stem at the base of the branches. 
E. B., 1721, represents a form with dense contiguous spikes, said 
to have been sent from Yarmouth; but probably this peculiarity has 
resulted solely from the inaccuracy of the draughtsman, as the spikes 
are not so in any of the very numerous specimens I have seen. 
Fig-leaved Goosefoot. 
French, Ansérine & feuilles de figuier. German, Feigenblittriger Gansefuss. 
SPECIES V.—-CHENOPODIUM MURALE. Lim. 
Prats MCXCII. 
Stem erect or ascending, generally branched at the base, and also 
throughout, branches ascending. Leaves rhombic-ovate, truncate or 
wedgeshaped at the base, acute, sinuate-serrate or inciso-serrate, with 
the lowest teeth not larger than the others; upper leaves narrower, but 
in other respects similar to the lower ones. Flowers in minute glome- 
rules, arranged in short lax spreading leafless branched spikes or 
cymes; spikes or cymes combined into a slender rather dense terminal 
panicle, which is leafy, except at the very apex. Calyx segments 
slightly keeled on the back, nearly covering the fruit, almost wholly 
