CHENOPODIACE®. Ah 
Var. a, genuinum. 
Prats MCLXXXV. 
C. polyspermum, Si. Engl. Bot. No. 1480. Linn. Herb. (!). 
“©. cymosum, Cheval, Pl. Par. Vol. HI. p. 385.” 
C. polyspermum, var. cymosum, Mog.-Tand. in D.C. Prod. Vol. XIII. Pt. TI. 62. 
Stems decumbent. Leaves generally obtuse. Flowers in axillary 
compound leafless dichotomous cymes with divaricate branches ; cymes 
are shorter than the leaves from which they spring. 
Var. 6, acutifoliwm. 
Prats MCLXXXVI. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1318. 
C. acutifolium, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1481. 
C. polyspermum, var. spicatum, Mog.-Tand. in D.C. Prod. Vol. XIII. Pt. II. p. 62. 
Stems erect or ascending. Leaves acute, the upper ones narrowly 
lanceolate-elliptical. Flowers in erect spikes in the axils of the leaves 
and at the apex of the branches, the lower spikes equalling or exceed- 
ing the leaves; all of them composed, towards the base, of small simple 
cymes in the axils of minute leaves, and of sessile glomerules without 
the leaves towards the apex. 
In rich cultivated ground and waste places, especially where the 
ground has been recently turned up, and on old manure heaps. 
Rather rare, but generally distributed over the south of England; 
extending north to the counties of Notts, Derby, and Chester or South 
Lancashire; also on the ballast hills at the mouth of the Tyne. In 
Ireland it has been found near Dublin and Cork, but believed to be 
casually introduced. Var. , according to the general account, is the 
more common form, but about London I have more frequently found 
var. a. 
England, [Ireland.] Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Stems 3 inches to 3 feet long in var. «, 3 to 18 inches high in var. £, 
angular, often striped with green and red. Leaves rather shortly 
stalked, the lamina of the largest $ to 2 inches long, variable in breadth 
and in the shape of the apex, which is sometimes retuse with a small 
apiculus, sometimes rounded and apiculate, and sometimes acute. 
Flowers very minute, very numerous, green; in var. @, in evident 
cymes; but in var. 6 these cymes are usually only once forked, the 
upper ones with the lateral branches so short that they are reduced to 
glomerules: but, according to the observations of Professor Babington, 
and the Rev. W. A. Leighton, and others, the examination of numerous 
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