CukNoPopiuM RusanuM. SMALL-SEEDED Goosx-Foor. 
CHENOPODIUM, Linn. Gen PL Pk&NTANDR1A Dicynta. ; ; 4 
Cal. 5-fidus, 5-coftatus. Cor. 6. Sem. 1. lenticulare. fuperum 
"e | horizontale calice conniventi tectum. | 
CHENOPODIUM. Raz Sym.Gen.5. HERBA FLORE IMPERFECTO SEU STAMINEO (VEL APETALO 
| POTIUS). : 
CHENOPODIUM rubrum fohis Picea obtufiufculis dentatis, racemis ere@is com- 
pofitis fubfoliofis caule brevioribus. Lan. Syf. Nar. ed. 19. Gmel. p. 448. 
Syf.. Vegetab. ed. A4. Murr. . 201. Sp. Pl ed. 3. p. 918. FI. Suec. ed. 9. 5. 78. 
| Lightfoot v. 1. p. 148. Hudf: Angl. ed. 2. b. 105. . 
CHENOPODIUM foliis glabris nitentibus, acute circumdentatis. Ha//, Hif. n. 1588. | 
ATRIPLEX fylv. latifolia. Bah. Pin. 119. 
ATRIPLEX fylveftris III. Mazzh. p. 462. 
ATRIPLEX fylveftris latifolia five Pes Anferinus. Goofe-Foot. Ger. emac. p. 328. f. 1. Park.. p. 
749. f. 8. | 
BLITUM Pes Watts ditum. Goofe-Foot or Sow-Bane. Rai Syn, ed. 3. p. 154. 
BLITO Pes Anferinus ditto fimilis. Razz Syn. ed. 3. p. 154. 
BLITUM Morifono Atriplex procumbens folio finuato lucido craffo di&um. — Raz Sys. ed. 3. p. 154. 
Regarded by Mr. HupsoN as a variety of murule. | 

RADIX annua, fibrofa. ) ROOT annual and fibrous. 7 
CAULIS pedalis, bipedalis, et ultra, plerumque erectus, 9 STALK a foot, two feet or more in height, generally 
inequaliter ftriatus, levis, viridis, purpuraf- 3 upright, unevenly flriated, fmooth, green, 
cens etiam ruberrimus, nonnunquam fim- purplifh, or even very red, fometimes fimple, 
plex, faepius vero ramofus, ramis inferioribus but moít commonly branched, the lower 
Pene et haud infrequenter decum- branches fpreading and not unfrequently de- 
bentibus. cumbent. 
FOLIA petiolata, fubcarnofa, glabra, nuda, fubtus ve- 9 LEAVES ftanding on foottalks, fomewhat flefhy, 
nofa, in petiolum decurrentia, finuata, dentata, fmooth, naked, veiny on the under fide, 
dentibus utrinque a bafin fecundis ceteris running down the foot-flalk, finuated, toothed, 
plerumque multo majoribus, omnibus acuti- the fecond teeth on each fide from the bafe 
ufculis et fepe rubro marginatis. ufually much larger than the others, all of 
them fomewhat pointed, and often edged 
with rea. 
LEAF-STALKS long, but fhorter than the leaves 
themfelves. 
FLOWERS very minute, fpiked, green, purplifh, or 
very bright purple, placed clofe together, in 
fmall roundifh feffile balls, under each little 
ball or clufter is placed a fmall leaf, longer 
than the ball itfelf, which gives to the fpikes 
a leafy appearance, the little clufters them- 
felves are fometimes obferved leafy. 
CALYX :.a PErtanruium of five leaves, which are 
ovate, concave, {preading, membranous on 
the edge, finally clofing and containing the 
feed, fig. 1. 
COROLLA none. 
STAMINA: five white Firaments a little longer 
than the calyx; Ax THER x yellow, fe. 2. 
PISTILLUM: Germen fomewhat ovate, flattened, 
STYLE very fhort; SriGMATA two, villous, 
and fpreading, jig. 3. 
SEED very minute, lens-fhaped, fhining, of a deep 
brown colour, not wholly covered by the 
calyx, jig. 4. 
We have often had occafion to remark, that the more common plants, which grow as it were under our 
feet, are infinitely more difficult to afcertain than thofe which are rare; this arifes In [ome from a deficiency 
perhaps of fpecific chara¢ter, but more from that diverfity of appearance which they affume in confequence 
of growing in foils and fituations widely different: we have always found fludents, and. even thofe well. verfed 
in plants, at a lofs in making out the different fpecies of Chenopodium, and more efpecially the prefent fpecies ; 
and we fufpe& that Linn us, in his account of it, has in fome degree contributed rather to obfcure than 
elucidate it; in his Flor. Suec. ed. 2. in defcribing it, he fays, cawles decumbentes et terre apprefe; though this’ 
may be true of it when growing in certain fituations, as in f/arezs Stockholmia, it 1s not generally fo; on 
dunghills, which are frequently covered with it alone, and in wafle places that have been overflowed in the 
winter, fituations which this plant principally and very generally affeéts with us; the main flem 1s for the moft 
part perfe&lly upright, as much fo as that of the urézcum ; when it grows fingly in foils not very luxuriant, and 
efpecially at the clofe of the year, not only the lower branches are often procumbent, but the whole plant is fo, 
and often in a dwarf flate; indeed one can fcarcely imagine two plants more different than the one flarving in 
the fituation laft defcribed, and the other flourifhing on a rich dunghill, or a moift ditch originating near it, 
where it frequently attains the height of three feet. 
There is another circumílance which has contributed alfo to render a knowledge of this plant difficult, and 
that has arifen from its colour: Botanifts have not been aware that there are two principal varieties of it, one 
of a fine purple, which extends fometimes to the whole plant, and 1s fo brilliant as to render it even ornamental, 
the other pale green without the leafl tinge of red; and thele two may generally be found growing near each 
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PETIOLI longi, at foliis ipfis breviores. 
FLORES minimi, fpicati, virides, purpurafcentes, aut 
vivide purpurei, in. glomerulis feffilibus fub- 
rotundis denfe collocati, fub fingulo glome- 
rulo foliolum glomerulo longius, hinc fpice 
foliofe evadunt, glomeruli ipfi etiam foliofi 
nonnunquam ob fe rvantur. 
CALYX: PeRn1ANTHIUM pentaphyllum, foliolis ovatis, 
concavis, patentibus, margine membranaceis, 
demum claufis, femen includentibus, jig. 1. 
COROLLA nulla. 
STAMINA : FrLAMENTA quinque, alba, calyce paulo 
longiora; ANTHER X flave, jig. 2. 
PISTILLUM: GznwzN fubovatum, compreffum ; 
SrvrLus breviflimus; Stigmata duo, vil- 
lofa, patentia, //g. 9. 
SEMEN minimum, lentiforme, nitidum, faturate ful- 
cum, calyce non penitus tetium, jg. 4. 
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other. : - 
We have long fince difcovered the means of diftinguifhing with certainty this plant, under all its appearances, 
from the uréicum, with which it has the greateft affinity (Mr. Hupson, indeed, fufpeéted that thefe two plants 
were varieties only of each other) and that by the difference in the fize of their refpective feeds ; thofe of the 
rubrum are very minute, not much larger than the largeft grains of common writing fand, and thofe of the 
urbicum are nearly the fize of rape-feed. | 
To fee the flowers of this plant, we muft examine it when very young in Auguft and September. 
Cattle of no kind fhew any difpofition to eat this herb, which is, however, reported to be noxious to fwine, 
perhaps, on no good authority: the feeds afford abundant food for fmall birds; agriculturally confidered, it 
mutt be regarded as a weed, though not fo generally troublefome as fome of the others of the genus. 
