360 lxx. chenopodiacEjE : chenopode^:. \_Chenop6dinm. 
flower none.) — Named from xvr, X^rnc, a goose and rrovg, a 
'foot; from the shape of the leaves in some species. They are 
more or less employed as potherbs. 
* Seeds horizontally compressed. Chenopodium Moq. 
■j- Leaves undivided. 
1. C . olidnm Curt. ( stinking G.) ; leaves ovato-rhomboid 
entire mealy, flowers in dense clustered leafless spikes, stem 
diffuse. E. B. t. 1034. C. Vulvaria L. 
Waste places, and under walls, especially near the sea on the east 
side of both England and Scotland. 0. 8, 9. — Leaves small, 
petiolate, greasy to the touch, and covered with a pulverulent sub- 
stance, which, when bruised, yields a detestable odour, resembling 
that of putrid fish. Seeds very small, shining, slightly rough. 
2. C. polyspermum L. ( many-seeded G.) ; leaves ovate-ellip- 
tical sessile, spikes axillary elongated subcvmose. — a. stems all 
prostrate, leaves obtuse, spikes cyniose ieafless. C. polyspermum 
E. B. t. 1480. — 13. stem erect, leaves acute, spikes leafy scarcely 
cymose. C. polyspermum Curt. C. acutifolium E.B. t. 1481. 
a. Cornwall. — j3. not unfrequent in England, in waste places and 
among rubbish, and on ballast-hills. Q. 8, 9. — The spikes of 
flowers are more or less cymose, sometimes leafy and leafless upon the 
same individual ; so that we cannot assent to the opinion that the 
C. acutifolium is distinct from C. polyspermum, of which Wallroth, an 
excellent observer, says, “ variat foliis ovatis, obtusis, emarginatis, 
rubro-marginatis, acutis ; cymis aphyllis et foliosis expansis.” It is 
remarkable for its very numerous dark brown, shining, minutely 
dotted seeds (which are obtuse at the margins), in part only enveloped 
by the perianth. 
j Leaves toothed, angled or lobed. 
3. C. urbicum L. ( upright. G .) ; leaves triangular toothed or 
nearly entire, spikes long erect approaching the stem sub-simple 
nearly leafless, flowers scattered on the spikes, edge of the seeds 
obtuse. — a. leaves with short triangular teeth. — d- leaves with 
large acute teeth. E. B. t. 717. C. intermedium Mert. et 
Koch. 
a. Near Oxford: Sm . — fl. waste places, under walls, and about 
towns and villages. Scarcely indigenous in Scotland. 0. 8, 9. — 
Stem erect, angular. Leaves large, truncate or subcuneate at the 
base, of a light or subglaucotis green, their margins in var. /8. deeply 
and irregularly toothed. Flowers in rather small, but remote clusters, 
on very long straight erect spikes. Seeds minutely rough, coated 
very tightly with the papillose, fragile utricle, large in comparison 
with those of the following species, “almost as big as rape-seed:” 
Curtis. 
