PI. ex. mon . 
16. CHENOPGDEiE. 40. Blitum. 279 
1 . Beta maritima. Sea beet. 
Stem prostrate at bottom ; lower leaves triangular, petio- 
late ; flowers solitary or in pairs ; lobes of the perigonium 
quite entire. 
Beta sylvestris maritima, Raii Syn. 157 ; Park. 750. 
Beta maritima, Lin. S. P. 322. 
Sea-shores ; perennial ; August. 
Root black, internally white; stems many, much branched 
at the top ; flowers racemose. 
2. Beta vulgaris . Common beet. 
Stem erect; leaves ovate; flowers 3 or 4 together. 
Beta alba, Ger. em. 318, 1. 
Beta, Park. 487. 
Beta vulgaris, Lin. S. P. 322. 
Beta esculenta, Salisb. Prod. 152. 
Beta cicla, Murray Syst. Nat. 262. 
Beta horlensis, Mill. Diet. 2,var. 
Cultivated ; biennial ; July and August. 
Leaves green. — Roots saccharine, very nutritive, used as 
food for man and beast, and also to manufacture sugar, of 
the same kind as cane sugar. 
/3. rubricaulis. Leaves green with red veins ; stem and 
branches red. 
Beta rubra, Ger. em. 3 18,2. 
Beta vulgaris 3, var. Miller Diet. 
y. rubra. Leaves red. 
Beta rubra Romana, Ger. em.319,3. 
Beta vulgaris «, Lin. S. P. 322. 
Beta vulgaris 3, Miller Diet. 
£ albo-rubens. Root tuberous, red, internally white. 
Beta hybrida, Salisb. W. 15. 
Root of scarcity. Mangel wurzel. 
e. raposa. Root tuberous, red throughout. 
Beta vulgaris y, Lin. S. P. 322. 
Beta raposa, Park. 489. 
Turnep-rooted beet. 
£. lutea. Root yellow. 
Beta vulgaris o, Lin. S. P. 322. 
III. 42. SPINACHIA. Spinage. 
Flowers unisexual. — Male. Perigonium 5-parted ; sta- 
mens 5. — Female. Perigonium 2 or 4-parted ; styles 4 ; 
utriculus upright, in the hardened and enclosing perigo- 
nium; spermodermis simple, membranaceous; corculum an- 
nular. — Flowers glomerate, axillary. 
