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CLXXXI. CHENOPODE^. 



Beta vulgaris. 

 Fruits (mag.). 



lieia vulgaris, 

 Blower out Tertioally (mag.). 



Herbaceous, suffrutescent, or rarely frutescent plants, glabrous, pubescent or 

 woody. StBMS cylindric or angular, erect or ascending, continuous and leafy, or 

 articulate and often aphyllous. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, sessile or 

 petioled, usually flat, entire, tootbed, sinuate or cut, sometimes flesby, semi-cylindrio 

 or cylindric ; stipules 0. Elowees 5 , small, regular, often dimorphous [Atriplex) ; 

 sometimes diclinous, or polygamous, sessile or pedicelled, solitary or variously 



