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LXX. CHENOrODIACEiE: CHENOPODEiE. [^Chc7lOp6diia^ 



Dungliills and waste ground, about London and Yarmouth. C) 

 8, 9. — Hudson and Moquin-Taudon refer this to the obscure C 

 serotimim L., which, however, Sir James Smith says is a Spanish 

 plant, not yet found in Britain, but Linnaeus himself considered the 

 English plant to be the same. 



8. C. 



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** Seeds vertically compressed, Blitum Moq. 



(Oak 



and siuuated at the margin glaucous and mealy beneath, spikes 

 erect mealy simple leafless, stigmas short, seed minutely re- 



ticulate-rugose. 



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Waste ground, especially on a sandy soil about London ; also in 

 Dorsefcsh., Isle of White, Sussex, Durham, Northumberland, and 

 Glamoj-ganshire. ©. 8. ■ — Seeds minute Perianth 4 — 5-partite in 

 some (perhaps only the terminal) flowers with the seed horizontal, as 

 in the E. Bot. figure, sometimes 2 — 3-partite, when the seed appears 

 to us to be always vertical. " Stam. 1 — 3 : " Wlls. 



9. C. ritbrnm L. {red G.) ; leaves triangular somewhat rhom- 

 boid toothed and serrate, spikes erect compound leafy, flowers 

 crowded on the spikes, stigmas short, seeds smooth shinino-.-, 

 a. leaves usually rhomboid irregularly toothed, edge of the seeds 

 obtuse and slightly keeled, stem erect. _E. i?. t. 1721.— /5. 

 hotryodes; leaves triangular shortly attenuated at the base 

 scarcely toothed, edge of the seeds acutely keeled, stems pros- 



trate. 



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a. Dunghills and under walls; also in salt-marshes. Rare (if 

 indigenous) in Scotland. — ^. v/aste ground near the sea; Yarmouth, 

 Lowestoft, South Shoebury. ©. 8, 9. — 5'^ems frequently reddish. 

 Leaves always more or less attenuated at the base, by no means 

 truncate. Spikes very compound, thick. The salt (or'alkali) con- 

 tained m the juice of this plant crystallizes upon the surface of the 

 stem. Perianth in 2-3 deep segments, with vertical seeds, in the 

 ateral flowers ; the terminal ones are usually 5-partite, with the seed 

 horizontal; others are 4-partite. """ 



veloped in the loose thin utricle. 



The seeds are small, smooth, eu- 



10. ^' BormsHenricmlj, {Mercury G. ,0V good King Henry); 

 leaves hastate-triangular (mostly) entire, spikes compound ter- 

 mmal and axillary erect leafless, stigmas elongated, fruit Ioniser 

 than the perianth, seed dotted with the edge obtuse. E, B, 



Waste places and vvay-sides frequent. 2JL. 5,6, and partially 6-8. 



Stems^ 1 ft h.gh striate. Leaves large, dark green, used, when 

 boiled, instead of spmac/,. Perianth quite campanulate, 5-cleft, half- 

 way do^yn Seed always vertical, coated with a true pellicle, besides 

 the capsular integument, on removing which the seed is smooth and 



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