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16. CHENOPODEiE. 
PL ex. mon. 
below ; plumula scarcely visible. — Herbs or undershrubs ; 
leaves alternate, rarely opposite ; stipules or sheaths none ; 
flowers small, greenish, rarely unisexual. 
Stamens 1 or 2. 
Perigonium not cut ; utriculus membra- 
naceous Salicornia. 46. 
Perigonium 3-parted; utriculus fleshy .... Blitum. 40. 
Stamens 5; perigonium not enlarging after flowering. 
Utriculus half-adherpnt Beta. 41. 
Utriculus free Chenopodium. 44. 
Stamens 5 ; perigonium enlarging after flowering. 
Spermodermis double ; 
perigonium 3 or 4-cut Spinachia. 42. 
Spermodermis double ; 
perigonium in female flowers 2-leaved, 
compressed Atriplex. 43. 
Spermodermis simple ; 
seed horizontal; corcidum snail-like Salsola. 45. 
I. 40. BLITUM. Theophrastus. Elite. 
Perigonium 3-cut, coloured ; stamen 1 ; ovary above ; 
styles 2 ; utriculus fleshy ; seed lenticular ; spermodermis 
double, the outer crustaceous ; corculum annular. — Flowers 
glomerate; fruit like a strawberry, axillary or terminal. 
Blitum virgatum. 
Heads spread, lateral. 
Blituiruvirgatum, Lin, S. P. 7. 
Dunghills, but scarcely a native ; annual ; July. 
II. 41. BETA. Pliny. Beet. 
Perigonium 3-parted, slightly adherent at bottom to the 
ovary ; stamens 5 ; styles 2 ; utriculus depressed, immersed 
in the perigonium ; seed horizontal ; spermodermis double, 
the outer coriaceous ; corculum annular. — Boot fusiform, 
fleshy ; stem furrowed ; glomerules 2 to 4-flowered, sessile, 
axillliry; hractece 2 or 3 to each flower. 
