GOOSEFOOT FAMILY, 



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

 high, salcate-angled. somewhat paniculately branching. Radical-leaves 6-12 inches long ; 

 petioles 4-5 inches long, succulent, channeled above ; ^em-leates lance-ovate, acute, petio- 

 laie, smaller as they ascend. CaZ]/x purplish-brown, fleshy at base, finally indurated or 

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

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

 bony cell at the base of the calyx. 

 Gardens and lots : cultivated. Xative of Southern Euroi^e. FT. J'jiy. Fr. September. 



Fig. 176. Summit of a branch of Worniseed (Qienopodium ambrosioides, var. a^itbel 

 minticum). 



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