814 Obdeb 105.— CHKNOI'ODIAOE^ 



lobes, glandular-pubescent, glaucous green, the floral bract-like ; fis. cymous-pani- 

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

 OD Plaqt 1 to 2f high, branched from the base. Lvs. feyf, 1 to 2' long, petioles 

 half as long. Fls. innumerable, minute, clammy, covering nearly the whole plant. 

 Jn. — Aug. Strongly fragrant of turpentine. 



4. ROUBIETA, Moq. (Named for Q. J. Soubieu, a French botan- 

 ist.) Calyx oblong-urceplate, 5-toothed, in fruit rugous and nnclosing 

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

 ticular, vertical, embryo a complete ring. — 2C A diffusely branched, pu- 

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

 podium, L.) 



E. multifida 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, 

 pinnatifld with oblong lobes. Ms. numerous, glomerate, axillary, sessile, in 

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



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

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

 filiform filaments ; styles 2, utricle compressed, inclosed in the calyx ; 

 seed vertical, embryo a complete ring. — (D Lvs. alternate, petiolatc. 

 Fls. glomerate. 



§ Heads (glomcrules) axillary, subspicatc above. Cal. thickened in fruit Stig. united. Nos. 1, 2 

 ^ Ileads forming a dense, terminal spike. Calyx diy. Stigmas distinct No. 3 



1. B. capitktum L. Steawbeery Elite. Lvs. triamgula/r-liastate, toothed; hds. 

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

 dened flowers, appeai'ing like strawberries, full of a purple juice, taste insipid; seed 

 dull. — Ta. to Arc. Circle. A weed-like plant growing in fields, 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. maritimum Kutt. Much branched, angular; lvs. lanceolate, attenuate at 

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



-fleshy; stam. 1; seed-shining. — A coarse, unsightly plant, in salt marshes, N. T. 

 to N. J. St. 1 to 2f high, very branching. Lvs. fleshy, with 2 or more large 

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

 Seed much flattened. Aug. 



3 B. Bonus-Henricua Eeichenb. Good King PIbney. Plant mealy, ascend- 

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

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

 N. Eng., rare. § Eur. 



6. AT^RIPLEX, Gaort. 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 altemate, petiolate lvs. 

 and densely glomerate-spiked green fls. 



1 A. haatita L. Ascending, diffusely branched ; lvs. alternate or subopposite, 

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

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

 (J) Salt marshes, N. T. to Ga. Sts. 1 to 2f long, striate with green. Lvs. 1 to 3' 

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

 and terminal racemes 3 and ? mixed. Aug., Sept. (A. patula L. A. la- 

 ciniata Ph.) 

 , 3. PUESHUNA. Plant more or lees dotted with scarf-scales. (A laciniata Pli.) 



