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G6. CIIENOPODIACEvE. 
covered with a greasy ]>ulverulent foetid substance. — Waste places 
by road-sides. A. VIII. IX. 
2. C.polyspermtim (L.) ; 1. ovate-elliptical sessile, 11. in axillary 
leafless cyinose racemes, seeds horizontal shining minutely punc- 
tulate obtuse at the margins. — E. B. 1480 and 1481. Leiyht. t. 5. 
St. 75. 12 and 13. — Racemes more or less cymose or .sjncate. St. 
erect or procumbent. L. acute or obtuse. C. acutifolium and 
C. polyspermum are so completely connected by iutermechate 
forms that it is useless to attempt to distinguish them even as 
varieties. — Damp waste places. A. VIII. IX. 
tt Leaves toothed angled or lohed. 
3. C. urbicum (L.); 1. triangular sinuate-dentate or nearly 
entire their base contracted into the petiole, spikes erect nearly 
leafless compound, seeds horizontal very minutely rough obtuse 
at the margin. — L. with short triangidar teeth. — intermedium 
(Koch) ; 1. with large acute teeth. E. B. 717- — Koch has j>roved 
by cultivation that these are only varieties. — Near Oxford. Sm. 
VI. Br. |3. Waste places. A. VIII. 
4. C. album (L.) ; 1. rhomboid-ovate sinuate-dentate entire 
below, upper ones lanceolate nearly entire, fl. in compoimd 
branched nearly leafless racemes, seeds horizontal smooth and 
shining obtusely keeled at the margin. — E. B. 1723. St. 75. G. — 
Axillary racemes spicate dense, 1. mealy. — j3. viride (Sm.) ; ra- 
cemes cymose much interrupted elongated, 1. green often quite 
entire. C. viride, L. St. 75. 7- — Waste places. A. VII. VIII. 
5. C.Jicifolium{8m.) ; 1. unequally ‘S-lobedfromawedgeshaped 
base : lobes ascending, intermediate lobe elongate oblong-lanceolate 
dentate obtuse, upper 1. linear-lanceolate entire, fl. in erect nearly 
leafless cymose racemes, seeds horizontal excavato-punctate shi- 
ning obtuse and not keeled at the margin. — E. B. 1724. St. 75. 
10. — Seeds smaller than those of C. album. — Waste ground, rare. 
A. VIII. IX. 
6. C. murale (L.) ; 1. rhomboid-ovate unequally and sharply 
toothed entire below, fl. in divaricately-branched leafless cymes, 
seeds horizontal elevato-punctate opaque acutely keeled at the mar- 
gin. — E. B. 1722 . St. 75 . 5. — Waste ground near towns and 
villages. A. VIII. 
7. C.hybridum{L.); l.subcordateangulate-dentateacumma.te: 
teeth large distant, fl. in aggregated ])anicled leafless cymes, seed 
horizontal excavato-punctate opaque obtuse and not keeled at the 
margin. — E. B. 1!)10. St. 75. 2. — Seeds very large. L. with 
2 — 4 large teeth on each side. — Cultivated fields and waste places, 
rare. A. VIII. 
