364 CHENOPODIACE^. (G008EF00T FAMILY.) 



sparingly or slightly toothed; racemes spiked-panicled, mostly dense; seed 

 sharp-edged. — Varies exceedingly in different situations, more or less white- 

 mealy ; a narrow and green-leaved variety, with slender racemes, is C. viride, 

 L. — Very common. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 # # * * Leaves sinuate- or pinnatifid-toothed, white-mealy underneath : calyx-lohes 



not heeled, not perfectly enclosing the fruit, sometimes only 4-2, and then the seed 



commonly vertical, 



7. C. GLAiicuM, L. (Oak-leaved Goosefoot.) Stems ascending or 

 prostrate, much branched (6' -12' high); leaves oblong, obtuse, smooth and 

 pale green above; racemes spiked and simple, dense; seed sharp-edged. — 

 Philadelphia, Dr. Bromfidd. Lancaster, Penn., Porter. Eoxbury, Mass., D. 

 Murray. (I have seen no specimens.) (Adv. from Eu.) 



§ 2. BOTRYOIS, Moquin. (Ambkina, Moqnin, in part.) — Not mealy, but 

 more or less viscid-glandular and pleasant-aromatic : seed sometimes vertical when 

 the calyx is only 2 -Z-cleft; emhryo forming only | or | o/" a ring. 



8. C. B6TEYS, L. (Jeeusalem Oak. Feather Geranidm.) Glan- 

 dular-pubescent and viscid ; leaves slender-petioled, oblong, obtuse, sinuate- 

 pinnatifid ; racemes cymose-diverging, loose, lea/less ; fruit not perfectly enclosed ; 

 seed obtusely margined. — Escaped from gardens. (Adv. from Eu.) 



9. C. AMBROsioiDES, L. (Mexican Tea.) Smoothish; leaves slightly 

 petioled, oblong or lanceolate, repand-toothed or nearly entire, the upper taper- 

 ing to both ends ; spikes densely flowered, leafy, or intei-mixed with leaves ; fruit 

 perfectly enclosed in the calyx ; seeds obtuse on the margin. — Waste places; 

 common, especially southward. (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) — Passes into 



Var. ANTHBLMjfNTiouM. (WoRMSEBD.) JSoot perennial (1) ; leaves more 

 strongly toothed, the lower sometimes almost laciniate-pinnatifid ; spikes mostly 

 leafless. (C. anthelminticum, L.) — Common in waste places southward. 

 (Nat. from Trop. Amer.) 



3. ROUBIEVA, Moquin. Eoubieva. 



Calyx oblong-um-shaped, 5-toothed, in fruit enclosing the glandular-dotted 

 utricle like a small pod. Filaments short and flat. Seed vertical. Otherwise 

 like Chenopodium, § 2. — A diffusely much-branched perennial, with small 1-2- 

 pinnatifid leaves, and axillary clustered flowers. (Named for G. J. Eoubieu, a 

 French botanical writer.) 



1. R. MULTfFiDA, Moquin. (Chenopodium multifidum, L.) — Waste 

 places. Now York, in and around the city, J. Carey. (Adv. from Trop. Amer.) 



4. BL.ITIJM, Tomn. Bute. 



Flowers perfect, bractlcss. Calyx 3-5-parted, either unchanged or becom- 

 ino- juicy and berry-like in fruit, not appendaged. Stamens 1-5: filaments 

 filiform. Styles or stigmas 2. Seed vertical, compressed-globular ; the embryo 

 coiled into a ring quite around the albumen. — Herbs, with petioled triangular 

 or halberd-shaped and mostly sinuate-toothed leaves. (The ancient Greek and 

 "■".atin name of some insipid pot-herb.) 



