GOOSEPOCT FAillLY. 



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the radical leaves — ^perhaps severally formed and nourished hy them. Slem 2-4 feet 

 high, sulcate-angled, somewhat paniculately branching. liadical-leaves 6-12 inches long ; 

 petioles 4-8 inches long, succulent, channeled above ; stem-leaves lance-ovate, acute, petio- 

 late, smaller as they ascend. CaZi/z purplish-brovm, fleshy at base, finally indurated or 

 externally corky — the segments keeled, incurved and subsaccato at apex. Seed depressed, 

 cochleate-orbicular, loosely farinaceous, enveloped in a purple membrane and lodged in a 

 bony cell at the base of the calj-x. 

 Gardens and lots : cultivated. Native of Southern Euroi^e, Fl. July. Fr. September. 



Fig. 176. Summit of a branch of VTormseed (Chenopodium ambrosioides, var. anthel 

 minlicum) . 



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