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19. P. scandens L. (P. dumetorum and var. scandens of Cayuga Fl.) Climbing 

 False Buckwheat. 



Low thickets, in alluvial sandy or gravelly soil ; frequent. Aug.-Sept. 



Coy Glen ; Inlet Valley ; Renwick woods and vicinity ; and elsewhere. 



N. S. to Out. and B. C, southw. to Fla., Nebr., and Tex., including the Atlantic 

 Coastal Plain. 



[P. cilinode Michx. 



This plant is frequent in Cortland Co., and is to be expected along the eastern 

 and southern borders of the Cayuga Lake Basin.] 



40. CHENOPODIACEAE (Goosefoot Family) 



a. Leaves linear or broader, not spiny nor scale-like, alternate ; embryo coiled into a 

 ring about the copious endosperm. 

 b. Flowers perfect, not inclosed between special bracts. 



c. Sepals each with a dorsal wing-like projection; leaves narrowly lanceolate to 



linear. [Kochia] 



c. Sepals naked; leaves lanceolate to ovate. 1. Chenopomum 



b. Flowers unisexual, the pistillate ones without a perianth and inclosed between 

 two triangular bracts; leaves lanceolate to hastate-ovate. 2. Atriplex 

 a. Leaves scale-like, opposite; branches terete, succulent, jointed; embryo curved 



or conduplicate ; endosperm wanting (see also 3d a). 3. Salicornia 



a. Leaves subulate, spiny-tipped, alternate ; embryo spirally and conically coiled ; 

 endosperm wanting. 4. Salsola 



[Kochia Roth] 



a. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 3-7 mm. wide; plant diffusely branched, apparently green 



in autumn. [K. scoparia] 



a. Leaves narrowly linear, 1-2 mm. wide ; plant densely fastigiate, bright red in 

 autumn. . [K. scoparia, 



var. trichopliila] 

 [K. scoparia (L.) Schrad. 



In cinders near the heating plant, Agricultural College, Ithaca, 1923 (S. H. Burn- 

 ham) ; probably not established. Adventive from Eurasia.] 



[K. scoparia (L.) Schrad., var. trichophila (Schinz & Thell.) Bailey. ( S«e 



Bailey, Man. Cult. PI., p. 250. 1924.) 

 Garbage dump at Dwyer Pond; Dryden Road, Ithaca; lighthouse road, Ithaca; 

 probably not established. 



Escaped from cultivation. Native of Eurasia.] 



1. Chenopodium (Tourn.) L. 



a. Foliage glandular ; embryo forming an incomplete ring. 



b. Flowers atomiferous; panicle broad; leaves 4-18 cm. long, lanceolate, coarsely 



toothed ; plant tall. 1. C. ambrosioides 



b. Flowers strongly glandular-pubescent ; panicle narrow, the branches subsecund ; 

 leaves 1-5 cm. long, pinnately lobed ; plant low. 2. C. Botrys 



a. Foliage not glandular, often mealy ; embryo forming a complete ring. 

 b. Seeds vertical, or the terminal ones sometimes horizontal. 



c. Calyx fleshy in fruit, bright crimson; glomerules 10 mm. in diam., not mealy. 



3. C. capital inn 

 c. Calyx slightly or not at all fleshy ; glomerules 2—4 mm. in diam. 

 d. Plant not mealy ; calyx reddish when ripe. 4. C. rubrum 



d. Plant mealy ; calyx green. 



