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ile) ENGLISH BOTANY. 
specimens shows that the two cannot be separated. If, indeed, we 
conceive the axillary spikes of var. ( greatly developed, they would 
put on exactly the appearance of the branches of var. 2. Seeds 
reddish-brown, globular, subreniform, depressed, rather smaller than 
maw-seed (Papaver hortense), black or reddish-black, closely invested 
by the pericarp. Plant green or tinged with red. 
Many-seeded Goosefoot. 
French, Ansérine polysperme. German, Vielsamiger Gansefuss. 
This plant is also known as Allseed, Goosefoot, or Blite. 
SPECIES I—CHENOPODIUM VULVARIA. Lim. 
Pirates MCLXXXVIL. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2354. 
C. olidum, Curt. Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1034. et Auct. Ang. Plur. 
C. footidum, Zam. Fl. Fr. Vol. III. p. 244 (mon Schrad.). 
Stem decumbent, diffusely branched; branches divaricate. Leaves 
rhombic- or deltoid-ovate, entire. Flowers in minute glomerules, 
arranged in short dense erect terminal and axillary spikes, destitute 
of leaves; spikes combined into short compact terminal panicles, leafy 
only at the base. Fruit calyx with the segments not keeled, covering 
the fruit. Sceds all horizontal, rather small, shining, finely punctured. 
Stem, leaves, and calyx sparingly clothed with white meal, most 
abundant when the plant is young. 
By roadsides, especially at the foot of walls, and in waste places, 
chiefly in the neighbourhood of towns or villages, or by the sea. 
Rather common, and generally distributed in England, except in the 
west, but becoming scarce in the north. Very rare in Scotland, where 
it appears to be confined to the coast from Fisherrow to Prestonpans, 
the former in Mid-Lothian, the latter in East Lothian; it has also 
occurred on the ballast hills on the Fife coast, but doubtless intro- 
duced there. Very rare, and possibly now extinct in Ireland, although 
it has occurred near Cork, Tramore, Dublin, and Belfast. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stems weak, slender, wiry, branched throughout, branches mostly 
opposite, spreading in all directions, 3 to 18 inches long, often as- 
cending at the extremity, the lower ones as long as the principal stem. 
Largest leaves } to 14 inch long, and generally nearly as broad, on 
stalks of about their own length; the upper leaves decreasing in size, 
but not to any great extent. Spikes } to } inch long, continuous or 
slightly interrupted, the lateral ones shorter than the leaves from 
the axil of which they spring, collected into small panicles at the 
apex of the stem and branches. Fruit globular-reniform, depressed, 
