CHENOPODIACE^]. 



699 



7. Nettle-leaved Goosefoot. Chenopodium murale, Linn. 



(Fig. 841.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1722.) 



An erect or decumbent and much- 

 branched annual, a foot high or rather 

 more, either green like the upright G> 

 or with a slight, whitish meal. Leaves 

 broadly ovate and coarsely toothed, as 

 in the upright G., and the inflorescence 

 is also chiefly axillary, but the spikes 

 are much branched, forming spreading 

 cymes. Calyx usually slightly mealy, 

 almost closing over the seeds, which are 

 all horizontal. 



Under walls, on roadsides, and in 

 waste places, in temperate Europe, as 

 far northward as southern Sweden, all 

 across central and Russian Asia, and in 

 some other countries. Not uncommon 

 near habitations, in some parts of Eng- 

 land and Ireland, but does not extend 

 into Scotland. Fl. summer and autumn. 



Fig. 841. 



8. Maple-leaved Goosefoot. Chenopodium hybridum, 



(Fig. 842.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1919.) 



An erect, branching annual, 1 to 2 or 

 3 feet high, green and glabrous. Leaves 

 like those of Spinage, rather thick, 

 stalked, ovate, coarsely toothed, sinuate 

 or with a few broad lobes, the larger ones 

 2 or 3 inches long and broadly cordate 

 at the base, the upper ones narrower. 

 Clusters of flowers in forked cymes, 

 forming a loose terminal panicle, scarcely 

 leafy at the base. Perianth green, leav- 

 ing a considerable part of the seed ex- 

 posed. 



In cultivated and waste places, dis- 

 persed over Europe, central and Eussian 

 Asia, and North America. Scarce in 

 Britain, and probably confined to Eng- 

 land, where it occurs occasionally as a 

 weed of cultivation. FL summer and -pis. 842. 



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