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pitchy black, closely invested by the pericarp, about the size of a 
mignonette seed. Plant greyish green, more or less thickly sprinkled 
with white meal, especially when young, intensely fetid; stem con- 
colorous. 
This is the only indigenous British Chenopodium which has any 
perceptible odour, and, so far as I know, the only one of the genus 
which is decidedly feetid, except the Russian C. foetidum. 
Stinking Goosefoot. 
French, Ansérine fétide. German, Stinkender Ginsefuss. 
SPECIES TI—CHENOPODIUM ALBUM. Au. 
Pirates MCLXXXVII. MCLXXXIX. MCXC. 
C. leiospermum, D.C. Fl. Fr. Vol. IIT. p. 390. 
Stem erect, more or less branched, the branches erect ascending. 
Leaves rhombic or ovate- or lanceolate-rhombic, wedgeshaped at the 
base, irregularly toothed; the upper ones narrower, attenuated at 
each end. Flowers in moderately large glomerules, arranged in short 
dense erect simple or slightly compound leafless spikes; spikes 
arranged in slender leafy terminal panicles: or the glomerules in 
elongate lax compound spreading terminal and lateral spikes, leafy 
towards the base, or in small cymes, sparingly leafy towards the 
base; the spikes or cymes combined into a lax leafy panicle. Calyx 
segments keeled on the back, covering the fruit, with narrow scarious 
margins. Seeds all horizontal, rather small, shining, nearly smooth, 
bluntly keeled all round. Stem, leaves, and calyx usually more or 
less thickly clothed with white meal, which is most abundant when the 
plant is young. 
Var. a, candicans. 
Prats MCLXXXVIII. 
C. candicans, Lam. FI. Fr. Vol. IIL. p. 248. 
C. album, var. commune, Mog.-Tand. in D.C. Prod. Vol. XII. Part IL. p. 71. 
C. album, Linn. Herb. (!). Sm. Engl. Bot. 1723. 
Stem often simple, or, if branched, with the branches suberect. 
Leaves rhombic-triangular-ovate, dentate-serrate, more rarely sub- 
hastate and otherwise entire, more or less white with meal, especially 
beneath. Glomerules collected into short axillary and terminal erect 
simple, or nearly simple, dense spikes, the axillary ones shorter than 
the leaves from which they spring; spikes combined into a very slender 
acute panicle. Calyx thickly clothed with white meal. 
