Chenopodium album, white Goosefoot. 
CHENOPODIUM Lin. Gen. PI. Pentandria Digynia. 
Cal. 5 phyllus, 5 gonus. 
Cor. o. Sent. 1, lenticulare, fuperum. 
Raii. Syn. Gen. 5. Herb.® flore imperfecto seu stamineo vel apetalo potius. 
CHENOPODIUM album foliis rhomboideo-triangularibus erofis poftice integris, fummis oblongis, racemis 
eredis. Lin. Syfi. Veget ab. p. 21 6. Spec. Plant, p. 319. FI. Suecic. p. 79. 
CHENOPODIUM foliis fubtus farinofis, rhomboideis, dentatis, fuperioribus integerrimis. Haller, 
hijl. n. 1579. 
CHENOPODIUM fylveftre opuli folio. Vaillant, Paris. 36. t. 7. fig. 1. 
BLITUM Atriplex fylveftris didum. Raii Syn. p. 154. Common wild Orache. 
ATRIPLEX folio finuato candicante. Bauh. pin. 1 1 9. 
ATRIPLEX fylveftris vulgatior finuata major. Parlinfon. 748. 
ATRIPLEX vulgaris Ger. emac. 326. Hudfon. FI. Angi. p. 91. Lightfoot. Flor. Scot. p. 148. 
RADIX annua, fibrofa, alba. | ROOT annual, fibrous and white. 
CAULIS eredus, pedalis ad tripedalem, parum flex- | STALK upright, from one to three feet high, flightly 
STAMINA : Filamenta quinque, fubulata, alba, ca- t STAMINA : five white tapering Filaments oppofite 
lycis foliis oppofita et paulo longiora ; An- | to and a little longer than the leaves of the 
ther® fubrotundae, didymae, flavas, jig. 2. * Calyx ; Anthera compofed of two roundifh 
* yellow cells, jig. 2. 
PISTILLUM: Germen orbiculatum ; jig. 3 ; Stylus | PISTILLUM: Germen orbicular; jig. 3; Style 
If any plants ftand in need of figures to illuftrate them, rather than defcriptions, it is furely the different fpecies 
of Chenopodium and Atriplex. 
By figuring the outline of the leaf of any of thefe plants, we convey to the moft tranfient obferver, a perfed 
idea of its fhape, without that ambiguity which muft ever attend the defcription of leaves fo irregularly formed, 
fo variable, and fo difficult of definition. 
Belides figures, thefe plants feem alfo to require every other kind of elucidation ; and if the altering and fixing 
diftind englifh names to different Genera, be in any cafe juftifiable, it muft be here, where three different Genera 
are called indifcriminately by the names of Orach , Goofefoot, and Blite. I have therefore prefumed to call the Genus 
Chenopodium Goofefoot , and propofe confining the term Orach to Atriplex, and Amaranth to Amaranthus ; 
the term Blite , by'which a fpecies of the laft mentioned Genus has been called, feems moft applicable to the 
genus Blitum. 
The Chnopodium album is the moft common with us of the whole genus ; it occurs in every Garden, flourifhes on 
every Dunghill, and abounds in moft of our Corn-fields. To the Gardener it is a quick growing troublefome Weed ; 
to the Farmer it is an injurious one, and generally introduced into his fields by that flovenly pradice of fuffering 
every kind of weed to feed on his Dung-heap. 
Like the other fpecies of this Genus, it varies exceedingly in its appearance when young, and when in its feed- 
ing ftate. Indeed all thefe plants require that the ftudent fhould nQtice them from the earlieft to the lateft periods 
of their growth ; or he never can attain a perfed knowledge of them. 
It is whiter in its whole appearance than moft of the Chenopodiums ; the leaves being more generally covered 
with thofe pellucid particles refembling meal, which are charaderiftic of thefe Genera. 
Mr. Lightfoot noticed its being eaten as a Pot-herb in fome parts of Scotland. 
FOLIA 
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rina copiofe adfperfa, fummis oblongis minus t a'blueifh green colour, plentifully covered par- 
profunde dentatis, aut etiam integris. | ticularly on the under fide with a mealy pOW- 
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rina copiofe adfperfa, fummis oblongis minus % a'blueifh green colour, plentifully covered par- 
profunde dentatis, aut etiam integris. | ticularly on the under fide with a mealy pow- 
X ripr f n f- linnprmnir 1 r- : n c r\K1n«rr 1 .Tc A r... 1 .r 
profunde dentatis, aut etiam integris. 
der, the uppermoft leaves oblong, lefs deeply 
? indented or even entire. 
der, the uppermoft leaves oblong, lefs deeply 
? indented or even entire. 
CALYX Perianthium pentaphyllum, perfiftens, fo- ? CALYX: a Perianthium of five leaves: and conti- 
nuinp - . the feprnents oval, hnllnw. memhra- 
RACEMI axillares, eredi, fpicati, floribus glomeratim | RACEMI axillary, upright, forming a fpike of flowers 
difpofitis. ^ * growing in little balls or clufters. 
11-11. 1-, 0 - . — 1- f nuing, the fegments oval, hollow, membra- 
ceis, pulverulentis^. I. poftice vifum. aud. y nous at the edges and powdery fig. i. feen 
COROLLA nulla. 
COROLLA nulla. ^ COROLLA wanting. 
on the back part, and magnified. 
brevis, bipartitus ; Stigmata obtufa. jig. 4. $ fhort, divided in two; Stigmata obtufe. 
I fig- 4- 
SEMEN unicum, lenticulare, lseve, caftancum. fig. 6. $ SEED one, lens-fhaped, fmooth and of a chefnut co- 
f lour. fig. 6. 
