350 MR. A. BENNETT ON SILENE OTITES, ARTEMISIA CAMPESTRIS, 
sand dunes of that country. It covers vast tracts (with other 
species of the genus) in Middle and South Russia. 
The Canadian plant is A. canadensis, Michn. 
Chenopodium botryodes. Smith, Eng. Bot. v. 32, t. 2247. 
Feb. 1, 1811. 
The specimen figured was sent by Mr. Lilly Wigg from near 
Yarmouth, Sept., 1808. 
“ We are obliged to the accurate Mr. (Lilly) Wigg for pointing 
out this plant to us near Yarmouth.” Smith, l.c .* Its first 
record as a British plant ; but it is probable that Ray’s “ Blitum 
sylvestre, q. blito peo anseriamus dido similis ” Syn. 154, 4, 
1724, x'efers to this. 
Syme in Eng. Botany f makes it a sub-sp. of C. rubrum, L. 
Hooker and Arnott. Brit. FI. ed. 6, 362, i860, make it 
a variety. 
How far the Continental plants referred to Smith’s species 
are so, is difficult to say ; Richterj gives eleven names under 
it which he considers the same. Lange in his Hand. Danske 
Flora, 278, 1887, gives Smith’s species, and quotes the Eng. 
Bot. Plate. He calls it “ Dineblomstret Gaasjod ” — Grape- 
flowered Goosefoot. 
The best account of the plant we have is by Mr. G. Fitt.^ 
He remarks, “ when fresh gathered the smell is like that of 
the pods of green peas. One fact connected with C. botryoides 
will, I think, be interesting to botanists. It grows in the 
greatest profusion and beauty (for it is a handsome plant 
with deep crimson stems) where mud has been thrown out 
of the ditches during the summer, and where grass has not 
had time to grow. In proof that the seeds in this case were 
in the mud, wherever the latter was scattered about the marsh, 
as it was in several places, there grew C. botryoides in profusion.” 
Mr. H. C. Watson writing on Oct. 9, 1878, remarks, “ Your 
specimen has slightly the scent of C. ambrosoides which I do 
not remember to have noticed in the fresh plant ; nor is any 
fragrant scent alluded to by Boswell,” &c. At this date 
(1906) the scent is still perceptible. 
* Clarke, l.c. 119. t Ed. 3, viii. 21, 1S68. 
t Plant. Europ. ii. 135, 1897. § ‘ Phytologist,’ i. (part 2), 1137, 1844. 
