ChENOPODIUM V1RIDE. PuRPLE-JOINTED GoOSEFOOT. 



CHENOPODIUM. Linnai Gen. PL Pentandria Digynia. 



Pall Syn. Gen. 5. Herbje flore imperfecto, seu stamineo, vel apeta- 



LO POT1US. 



CHENOPODIUM viride foliis rhomboideis dentato-finuatis, racemis ramofis fubfoliatis. Linnai 

 Syjl, Vegetab. p. 216. Sp. PL 319. Flora Suecic. p. 79. 



CHENOPODIUM foliis rhomboideis, dentatis, fubtus Sncajais. Haller. hijl. heh. p. 267. n. 1580. 

 CHENOPODIUM virtde, Scopoli PL Carniol. n. 280. 



Hudfon PL Angl. p. 91. 



Lightfoot Flora Scot. p. 149. n. 6. 



I have been cautious in referring to the fynonyma of authors on this plant, feeing they differ fo much 

 in their opinions refpecting it ; and have rather wifhed that the plate here given, might ferve as a recon- 

 ciliatory reference. Linnaeus and Haller both feem to doubt its being a fpecies diftintt from the album, 

 and it muff be confefled there is a great fimilarity betwixt them; yet if my obfervations are jufl, there is 

 every reafon to confider them as two plants perfectly diftincl:. 



They agree in this, that they are both annual plants, both grow in the fame foil and fituations, are nearly 

 alike in their fize an4 habit, and both flower about the fame time ; and yet they differ in many refpects 

 very efTentially. That which in a more ftriking manner difHnguifhes the viride from the album, is the greener 

 appearance of the whole plant, the bright red colour at the angles of the joints, which is confbnt, and the 

 ihape of the leaf, fig. 1, which is always much longer than that of the album. The album is loaded with an 

 appearance of meal, which gives it its white colour ; the viride, though not deftitute of it, has it not in that 

 profufion. When the feed are ripe, the tops of the ftalks, in the viride, are more apt to hang down; the 

 parts of the fructification,^. 1, 3, 4, 5, are very fimilar, but fmaller; and the calyx is not quite fo much 

 covered with little globules : the feeds of each differs very confiderably, and affords a very curious and fatif- 

 fa&ory diftinction : in the album it is perfectly fmooth, glaber ; in the viride it is fmallerj and reticulated with 

 impreffed dots, reticulatus punftis imprejis, fig. 6. 



Like fome of the other {pedes of this Genus it is eaten as a pot-herb- 



