114 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 



Order LXX.— CHENOPODIACEiE. 



Flowers small, unisexual or bisexual; calyx inferior, 

 sepals 3-S ; stamens usually $ ; ovary i -celled, stigmas 

 2-4; leaves alternate; seed-vessel i -seeded, frequently 

 enclosed in the swollen calyx. A large order of incon- 

 spicuous herbs, widely distributed ; not alpine. 



I. CHENOPODIUM, L. 



Flowers small, bisexual, without bracts; stem angular; 

 seed-vessel a membranous utricle, often enclosed in the 

 persistent calyx. 



All the species of Goosefoot are weeds (usually an- 

 nual) in cultivated land or waste places in the lowlands. 

 The only Swiss species not English are C. opulifolium, 

 Schrad., with orbicular-rhomboidal leaves, and C. Botrys, 

 L., with sinuate- pinnatifid pubescent-glandular leaves. 

 The remaining species are English, viz. : — C. Vulvaria, L., 

 zx\A polyspermum., L., with entire leaves, the former mealy, 

 the latter glabrous ; C. album, L., ficifolium, Sm., and 

 urbicum, L., erect, mealy, with more or less toothed or 

 lobed leaves, distinguished by the form of the leaf, 

 deltoid-ovate in the first, oblong-hastate in the second, 

 and triangular in the third ; C. hybridum, L., and murale, 

 L., glabrous, erect, with toothed or lobed leaves, acumi- 

 nate in the former, deltoid-ovate in the latter ; C. rubrum, 

 L., erect, glabrous, usually red-tinted ; C. glaucum, L., 

 prostrate, leaves mealy beneath ; and C. Bonus-Henricus, 

 L., Good King Henry, perennial, leaves large, triangular. 



