62. CHENOPODIACER. 553 
sub-entire leaves and much elongated spikes, is found in Britain 
only as a Casual, on ballast, etc. 
Chenopodium (rubrum) pseudo-botryoides, Lond. Cat. 
Provinces 1284--7---11--- [15]. 
Syn. 911. Eng. bot. viii. 28. Since the second volume of the 
Cybele Britannica was printed, it has become quite clear that 
a form of C. rubrum had been mistakenly reported for true 
botryoides of Smith, in several counties. Hence the name of 
pseudo-botryoides, given to it in the London Catalogue, to facilitate 
the acquisition of specimens of both by those who mark their 
Desiderata in that Catalogue. In its extreme state, the present 
segregate is a dwarf depressed form, with leaves entire or very 
slightly toothed, thick in substance and usually much reddened ; 
its place of growth being about ponds in a gravelly soil, especially 
where much trodden by geese. Having been distributed nume- 
rously through the Exchange Club, it thus ought no longer to be 
mis-reported for Smith’s C. botryoides, which is a sea-side plant. 
Unnoticed in Bab. Man. ed. 6. Mistaken for botryoides in the 
former editions. 
Chenopodium (album) candicans, Lam. 
Provinces, probably all. C. album, Linn. herb.” 
Syn. 914. Eng. bot. viii. 15. Varenne, in Phytologist iv. 1111. 
A less expanded form, often found in some relation to cold, 
drought, or sterility of soil. 
Chenopodium (album) paganum, Reich. 
Provinces, possibly all. _C. (a.) virens, Lond. cat. ed. 6. 
Syn. 914. Journal of Botany vi. 289. Contrasted only in their 
extreme forms, these three segregates of Ch. album do indeed 
appear widely dissimilar. But the other two are so completely 
connected with this one by intermediate or transition forms, that 
specific separation of them is rendered ridiculous or impossible. 
Probably this ought to be regarded as the typical form of the 
species, not candicans, although it is the one which has been 
repeatedly labelled C. ficifolium by English collectors. It is the 
plant of rich and loose ground, and perhaps of a warmer season. 
The most frequent form in Surrey; but apparently less common 
in the northern counties, and possibly quite absent from some of 
the most northern provinces of Britain. 
Chenopodium (album) viride, Linn. 
Provinces 1 - 3 - 15, etc. Not ascertained apart. Fife; Syme. 
Syn. 914. Cyb. ii. 318. Especially the form of loose rubbish- 
heaps, and of the autumn season. In Surrey, it is the least 
frequent of the three segregates. 
Chenopodium opulifolium, Schrader. 
Provinces-- 3-10. Surrey. Middlesex. York? 
Casual. Eng. bot. vili. 38. Midx. flo. 238. J. B. iv. 150. 
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