364 GOOSBFOOT FAMILY. 



8. OHENOPODIUM. Flowers perfect in small clusters collected in spiked or sometimes 

 open panicles. Calyx mostly 2-5-cleft, dry or succulent in fruit. Ovary and utricle 

 depressed. (Lessons, Fig. 386.) Styles 2, rarely 8. Stamens 1-5. 



++ «• Flowers with bracts (or, if imperfect, the staminate ones bractless). 



4. BETA. Flowers perfect, clustered, with 8 bracts and a 5-cleft calyx becoming indurated 



in fruit, inclosing the hard akene, the bases of the two coherent. Stamens 5. Style 

 short ; stigmas mostly 2. 



5. ATEIPLEX. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, the staminate like those of 3, except 



that the pistil is abortive, the pistillate comprising a single naked pistil (sometimes 

 calyx-bearing in the garden Orach), inclosed in a pair of leafy mostly mealy bracts 

 which are enlarged in fruit and sometimes united. Stamens 8-5. 



■*- -t- Stem leaves linear-awl-shaped, with no distinct petiole. 



6. COEISPEEMUM. Flowers perfect, single, sessile in the axils of the upper leaves or 



bracts. Calyx a single small sepal on the inner side of the flower. Styles 2. Stamens 

 1-2. 



* * Plant more or less fleshy, often spinescent, growing on the seacoast or in saline 



soils. 



+- Leaves apparent, alternate; stem not jointed. 



1. STLEDA. Flowers perfect, in the axils of leafy bracts, sessile. Calyx fleshy, 5-parted, 

 often crested but wingless, inclosing the utricle. Stigmas 2-8. Stamens 5. Leaves 

 soft. 



8. SALSOLA. Flowers perfect. Calyx 5-parted, the divisions inclosing the fruit and Anally 



becoming horizontally winged. Styles 2. Stamens generally 5. Leaves stiff and 

 spinescent. 



+■ +- Leaves reduced to opposite fleshy scales; stem terete and jointed. 



9. SALICOENIA. , Flowers perfect, in 3's (the lateral sometimes sterile), immersed in 



hollows of the upper joints and forming a narrow strict spike. Calyx small and some- 

 what Inflated, becoming spongy and inclosing the flattened utricle. Styles 2. Sta- 

 mens 1-2. 



1. CTCLOLOMA, WINGED PIGWEED. (Greek: circle, border, 

 from the encircling wing of the calyx.) (J) 



C. platyphyllum, Moq. A diffuse herb, 6'-20', webby-pubescent or 

 nearly glabrous, green or purplish, often becoming a tumble weed in the 

 fall. Sandy soils, Minn., S. 



2. SPINACIA, SPINACH, SPINAGE. (Latin for spine or thorn, 

 from the horns or projections on the fruiting calyx of one variety.) 



S. oleracea, Mill. Common Spinach. Cult, from the Orient, as a pot 

 herb ; the soft fleshy leaves triangular or ovate and petioled. (J) (§) 



3. CHENOPODIDM, GOOSEFOOT (which the name denotes in Greek 

 in reference to the shape of the leaves of some species), PIGWEED. 

 Weeds ; flowers late summer and autumn. 



» Elite. Calyx fleshy in fruit, generally colored, the dense clusters of 

 flowers showy and berry-like. 



C. capit&tum, Watspn. Strawberry Blite, Strawberry Spinach. 

 Flower heads as the fruit matures becoming bright red and juicy, like 

 strawberries ; leaves triangular and halberd-shaped, wavy-toothed, smooth 

 and bright green. Dry banks, margins of woods, etc., N., sometimes in 

 gardens as a pot herb. @ (£) ■> 



