614 Obueb i05.— CHKNOFOBIAOE^ 



lobes, glandular-pubescent, glaucous green, the floral bract-like ; fls, cytaons-pani- 

 culate, in long ascending, raceme-like panicles ; seed smooth, nearly globular. — 

 3) Plant 1 to 2f high, branched from the base. Lvs. few, 1 to 2' long, petioles 

 half as long. FIs. innumerable, minute, clammy, coyering nearly the whole plant. 

 Jn. — Aug. Strongly fragrant of turpentine. 



4. ROUBIE'VA, Moq. (Named for G. J. Eouhieu, a French botan- 

 ist.) Calyx oblong-urceolate, 5-tootlied, in fruit rugous and inclosing 

 the utricle like a capsule ; stamens 5 ; styles and stigmas 3 ; seed len- 

 ticular, vertical, embryo a complete ring. — 71 A diffusely branched, pu- 

 bescent herb, with alternate, multifid Ivs. and small green fls. (Cheno- 

 podium, L.) 



R. multffida Moq. — Waste grounds, waysides about the city of N. Y. (Holton). 

 A strongly-scented, prostrate herb, 1 to 2f long. Lvs. small, 1' less or more long, 

 pinnatifid with oblong lobes. Fla. numerous, glomerate, axiBary, sessile, in 

 bracted, panicled racemes. Fruit nearly 1" long. § S. America. 



5. BLMUM, Tourn. Blite. Calyx 3 to 5-parted, finally un- 

 changed or becoming juicy and berry-like in fruit ; stamens 1 to 5, with 

 filiform filaments ; styles 2, utricle compressed, inclosed in the caly.x ; 

 seed vertical, embryo a complete ring. — (I) Lvs. alternate, pctiolate. 

 Fls, glomerate. 



§ Heads (glomcrnles) ftsillary, subspicate .above. Cal, thickened in fruit. 8ticr. united. Nos. 1, 9 

 § Heads forming a dense, terminal spilie. Calyx dry. Stigmas distinct Ko. 3 



1 B. capitatum L. Strawberry Blite. Lvs. triangular-hastate, toothed; M.s. 

 in terminal, interrupted, leafless spikes ; stam. 1 to 5 ; fr. consisting of tho red- 

 dened flowers, appearing like strawberries, full of a purple juice, taste insipid; seed 

 dull.-^Ta. to Arc. Circle. A weed-like plant growing in iields, and sometimes 

 cultivated in gardens as a flower, or a culinary. Sts. purplish-striped, branching,- 

 1 to 2f high. Heads of fls. sessile, near together, on the branches and summit 

 of the stem. Jn. f 



2 B. maritirtiura Nutt. Much branched, angular; Il'S. lanceolate, attentMie at 

 each extremity, incisely dentate ; hds. axillary, sessile, spicate ; cal. somewhat 

 fleshy ; stam. 1 ; seed shining.^A coarse, unsightly plant, in salt marshes, N. Y. 

 to 3Sf. J. St. 1 to 2f high, very branching. Lvs. fleshy, with 2 or more largo 

 teeth each side. Fls. very numerous and minute, becoming thickish in fruit. 

 Seed much flattened. Aug. 



3 B. Bonus-Henricus Reichenb. Good King Henry. Plant mealy, ascend- 

 ing, subsimple ; lvs. triangular-hastate, entire or sinuate, green ; glomerules 

 forming a terminal, leafless spike, not fleshy in fruit ; stam. 6. — ^Waysides, Can. 

 N. Eng., rare. § Eur. 



6. AT^RIPLEX, Gaert. Flowers monoecious or dioecious. 3 Bract- 

 less ; calyx 3 to 5-sepaled ; stamens 3 to 5, hypogynous ; pistil rudi- 

 mentary ; ? ovary 2-styled, with no stamens, inclosed between 2 

 leaf-like bracts, or in some species partly furnished with a 5-sepaled 

 calyx without bracts ; fruit compressed, inclosed ; seed vertical (hori- 

 zontal when the calyx is present), embryo annular. — Herbs or shrubs, 

 usually clothed with scurf or mealiness, with alternate, petiolato lvs. 

 and densely glomerate-spiked green fls. 



i A. hastata L. Ascending, diffusely branched; lvs. alternate or subopposite, 

 triangular hastate, sinuately toothed or nearly entire, the upper lanceolate, entire ; 

 fruit bracts triangular-deltoid, slightly muricate, margin denticulate or entire. — 

 (D Salt marshes, N. Y. to Ga. Sts. 1 to 2f long, striate with green. Lvs. 1 to 3' 

 long, including the petiole, glaucous-mealy or green. Fls. in glomerate, axillary 

 and terminal racemes i and ? mixed. Aug., Sept. (A. patula L. A. la- 

 ciniata Ph.) 



8. PUBSHi^NA. Plant more or less dotted with scarf-scales, (A, laciniata P!>.} 



