CHENOPODIACE^. 



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are usually more erect, and if perfect, the lower leaves at least will 

 always show a tendency to the angular or sinuate form. 



4. Glaucous Goosefoot. Chenopodium glaueum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 838.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1454.) 



Sometimes a low, procumbent plant, 

 like the stinking G., sometimes more 

 erect, but not so much as the white G., 

 and more branched. Leaves narrow- 

 ovate or oblong, sinuately toothed, but 

 more regularly so than in any other 

 species, green above, mealy-white un- 

 derneath. Clusters of flowers small, 

 mostly in axillary, nearly simple spikes. 

 Perianth green or slightly mealy, al- 

 most closing over the seed, which is 

 usually erect, as in the red G., horizontal 

 only in a few flowers. 



In cultivated and waste places, dis- 

 persed over Europe and central and Rus- 

 sian Asia, except the extreme north. 

 Occurs occasionally in various parts of 

 England, but not yet detected in Ire- 

 land or Scotland. FL summer and au- 

 tumn. 



Fig. 838. 



5. Red Goosefoot. Chenopodium rubrum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 839.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1721, and C. botryoides, t. 2247.) 



Very near the upright G., of which it has the foliage and inflores- 

 cence, and only differs in that most of the flowers have only 2 or 3 seg- 

 ments to the perianth, with the seed erect, not horizontal, and usually 

 much smaller. The whole plant is more apt to turn red, especially 

 near the sea. 



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