GOOSEFOOT FAMILY 



angular type. It is a cool-season plant and is in the market 

 spring and fall; the summer leaves are tough. In summer its 

 place is often taken by the New Zealand Spinach, which is a 

 warm-weather plant; it, however, is not related to the ordinary 

 Spinach, but is a Tetragonia, belonging to the Ficoidem. 



JERUSALEM OAK. FEATHER 

 -GERANIUM 



Chenopddium hbtrys. 



St'tn. — Low, spreading, clammy, 

 pubescent, sweet-scented. 



Leaves. — Sinuate-pinnatifid, slender- 

 petioled. 



Flowers. — Minute, abundant in 

 loosely corymbed racemes; sweet- 

 scented. 



Calyx. — Five-cleft; ovary and utri- 

 cle depressed. 



Feather Geranium is extremely Feather Geranium. Chenopbdium Ulrys 



aromatic — stem, leaves, flower, 



and fruit all heavy with fragrance. The plant is spreading, 



half -prostrate; is weedy in habit and not often found in modern 



gardens. 



MOCK CYPRESS. MEXICAN FIRE PLANT 



Kdchia scoparia. 



Kochia, in honor of Dr. Koch, professor of botany at Erlangen, 

 1771-1849. 



Stem. — Two to three feet high, erect, much branched; branches 

 slender, standing close to the main stem. 



Leaves. — Alternate, narrow, one to three inches long. 



Flowers. — Numerous, inconspicuous, green, more or less clustered 

 in the axils of the leaves. 



Perianth. — Orbicular, five-lobed. 



Stamens.— Five; stigmas two to three. 



