268 65. CHENOPODIACES. 
** Perianth not covering the fruit, seed mostly vertical. 
+ Stigmas short. 
8. C. rubrum (L.); 1. rhomboid irregularly toothed and sinu- 
ated entire below, fl. in erect compound dense leafy spikes, seeds 
very minute smooth shining blunt and slightly keeled at the edge. 
—E. B.1721.—St. erect, often a foot high. Pericarp very loose. 
Seed vertical or horizontal in the terminal fl. Fl. generally in- 
complete. Cal. 4- rarely 5-cleft. Stam.1 or 2. Mr. Leighton 
has sent a variety with much more triangular 1., shorter spikes 
and larger seeds, grown from seed obtained near London.— 
Waste places, particularly salt marshes. A. VIII. IX. 
9. C. botryoides (Sm.) ; 1. triangular somewhat toothed, fi. in 
compound dense leafy spikes, seeds very minute smooth shining 
acutely keeled at the edge.—E. B. 2247.—St. prostrate, spreading, 
4—5 in. long. Pericarp loose. Seeds vertical.—Moist sandy 
places near the sea. Cornw., Suff., Northumb. A. IX. 
10. C. glaucum (L.); 1. oblong sinuate-dentate, fl. in erect nearly 
simple leafless spikes, seeds very minute reticulate-rugose acutely 
keeled at the edge—#. B. 1454? (C. botryoides?) St. 75. 1.— 
St. spreading, often prostrate. Seeds reddish, vertical or hori- 
zoutal.— Waste sandy soil. A. IX. 
tt Stigmas elongated. 
11. C. Bonus-Henricus (L.); 1. triangular-hastate entire, fl. in 
compound leafless spikes, seeds smooth and shining.—Z£. B. 
1033. St. 74. 13.—St. a foot high. L. large, dark green, used 
instead of spinage.— Waste places near villages. P. VIII. 
4, Bera Linn. 
1. B. maritima (L.); st. many from the crown of root pro- 
strate, 1. triangular-ovate narrowed into a petiole, spikes elongate 
simple leafy, bracts lanceolate longer than the 2-flowered clusters, 
segments of the perianth with entire keels —E. B. 285. B. vul- 
garis (H. and A.), but proof that it is the same species is wanting. 
—Root thick, fleshy. St. 6—12 in. long, prostrate below, 
spreading in a circle, afterwards ascending.—Sea-shore. P. VII. 
—IX. Sea Beet. 
Tribe III. Salicornee. 
5. SaLicornia Linn. 
1. S. herbacea (L.) ; herbaceous, divisions of the st. compressed 
rather thickened upwards notched, spikes cylindrical tapering 
