286 65. CHENOPOBIACE^. 



hard and tough as long as their patent rather coloured roundish 

 wings. — St. angular, rigid, much branched. — Sandy sea-shorea. 

 A. vin. E. S. I. 



Tribe TI. Betem. 



3. CHEjropo'DiiJM: Linn. Goose-foot. 



• Perianth, nearly or quite covering the fruit; seed horizontal. 



t Leaves undivided. 



1. C. Vuhdria (L.) ; I. ovate-rhomhoidal mealy, fl. in leafless 

 dense spiies, seed shining slightly rough (very small), st. diffuse. 

 — St. 76. 14. 0. olidum Curt. — L. stalked.- Whole herbage 

 covered with a greasy pulverulent fetid substance. — Dry waste 

 places near houses. A. Vin. IX. E. S. I. F 



2. C poTysper'mam (L.) ; I. oxate-eUiptic, fl. in axillary leafless 

 cymose raofemes, seeds shining minutely dotted blunt at the 

 edge. — Leit/ht t. 5. iSi!. 75. 12 & SS.-^Racemes more or less 

 cvmose or spicate. >St..erect or procumbent. L. acute or blunt. 

 The perianth open vsdth fruit. C. actetifolium and C. polysper- 

 mum are rmdistinguishable.' — -Damp waste places. — ^A. VIII. IX. 



-■■'':- ' ■ ^ E. 



tt- Leaves toothed angled or lobed. 



3. C. ur'hieum (L.) ; I. triangular sinuate-dentate or nearly 

 entire their base contracted into the petiole, spikes erect nearly 

 leafless compound, seeds very minutely rough blunt at the edge. 

 — L. with short triangular teeth. Spikes approaching the stem. 

 Seed almost as large as Eape-seed. — jS. C. intermedium (M. & K.); 

 1. with large acute teeth. — Near Oxford. Sm. Fl. Br. j3. Waste 

 places. A. Vin. E. S. I. 



4. C. alhufn (L.)-; 1. rhomhoidal-ovate ainiuate-dentate entire 

 below, upper ones lanceolate nearly entire, fl. in compound 

 branched nearly leafless racemes, s,epds smooth and shining blunt 

 but keeled at -the edge.^ — St. 76. 6. — ^Axillary racemes spicate 

 dense, 1. mealy. — /3. C. viride (L.) ; racemes cymose, 1. green 

 often quite entire. St. 76. 7. — Cultivated and wasteplaces. 

 A.VirVin. Fat Ben. ■ E. S. L 



' 5. C.ficifdlium (Sm.); I. unequally 3-loiedfrom a wedgeshaped 

 hose, lobes ascending, middje. lobe long oblor\grlanceolate d^ate 

 hlunt, upper 1. linear-lanceolate entire, fl. in erect nearly leafless 

 cymose racemes, seeds, rninutely pitted shining blunt and not 

 keeled at the ed^e. — St. 76. lO.^Mealy. L. blunt; middle lobe 

 nearly equally broad throughout. Seeds smaller than in C. 

 album. — Cultivated and waste ground. A. VIII. IX. E. I. 



