PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Chenopodium. 13 



7. Ch. album. White Goosefoot. 



Leaves rhomboid-ovate, jagged, mealy ; entire towards the 

 base : upper ones oblong, entire. Seed quite smooth. 



Ch. album. Lmn. Sp.Pl.SlO. Willd.v. 1. 1302. Fl.Br.275. Engl. 



Bot. V. 24. t. 1723. Curt. Lond.fasc. 2. t. 15. Hook. Scot.84. 

 Ch. n. 1579. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 266. 

 Blitunij Atriplex sylvestvis dictum. Raii Syn. 154. . 

 Atriplex sylvestris. Fuchs. Hist. 119./. 

 A. .sylvestris prima. Camer. Epit. 241. f. 

 Frost Blite. Pet. H. Brit. t. 8./. 2. 

 /S. Blitum folio subrotundo. Dill, in Raii Syn. 155. 

 Buddie's Round Blite. Pet. H. Brit. t. 8./. 4. 

 y. Chenopodium viride. Linn. Sp. PI. 319. TVilld. v. 1. 1303. 

 Ch. album /3. Huds. 106. 

 Ch. n. 1579, /3. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 2G7. 

 Atriplex sylvestris altera. Ger.Em.326.f. 



S. Chenopodium foliis integris, racemosum. Dill, in Raii Syn. 155. 

 Atriplex sylvestris tertia. Canter. Epit. 243. f. 

 A. sylvestris foliis integris, racemosa. Bauh. Hist. v. 2,973./. 

 e. Chenopodium crasso et obtuse oleas folio. Dill, in Raii Sijn. 156. 



In cultivated as well as waste ground, every where. 



Annual. July, August. 



Herb mealy, with a silvery unctuous pubescence, which by age be- 

 comes dry and chaffy. Stem more or less branched, furrowed, 

 sometimes reddish. Leaves extremely variable in shape and 

 breadth ; the lower ones generally ovate, and bluntly toothed 

 or lobed, entire and elongated at the base ; the uppermost nar- 

 rower and entire. In /3 most of the leaves are broad, and round- 

 ed 5 in y they are narrower, greener, and the spikes are more 

 lax ; in S and e the whole of the foliage is nearly entire. The 

 spikes in all are interrupted, partly leafy, oblong, cylindrical, not 

 much branched. Seed perfectly even, not dotted. The young 



- herb is reported to be eatable when boiled, and is known by the 

 name of Fat Hen in some parts of Norfolk. 



8. Q\\. Jicifolium. Fig-leaved Goosefoot. 



Leaves sinuated, jagged, somewhat hastate ; entire towards 

 the base : upper ones oblong, quite entire. Seed dotted. 



Ch. ficifolium. Fl. Br. 276. Engl. Bot. v. 24. t. 1724. 



Ch. viride. Curt. Lond.fasc. 2. t. 16. 



Ch. serotinum. Huds. 106. Sibth. 88. Abbot 5b. 



Blitum ficus folio. Dill, in Raii Syn. 155. 



Atriplex sylvestris secunda. Matth. Valgr. v. 1.419./; according 



to Dillenius. 

 Buddies Fig Blite. Pet. H. Brit. t. 8./. 3. 



