CHENOPODIUM 
157 
3. CHENOPODIUM VULVARIA. Stinking Goosefoot. Plate 157 
A triplex olida Gerard Herb. 258 (1597); Ray Cat. Cantab. 17 (1660); Blitum foetidum vulvaria dictum Ray 
Syn. ed. 3, 156 (1724). 
Chenopodium vulvaria L. Sp. PL 220 (1753)!; Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 12 (1868); Rouy FI. France 
xii, 46 (1910); C. olidum Curtis FI. Lond. ii, no. 68 1 ; Smith FI. Brit. 277 (1800)!. 
leones: — Curtis FI. Lond. ii, t. 68, as C. olidum ; Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1034, as C. olidum ; FI. Dan. t. 1152; 
Beck in Reichenbach Icon, xxiv, t. 237. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 157. (a) Flowering shoots. ( b ) Flower (enlarged). ( c ) Seeds (enlarged). Lower 
shoot from Cambridgeshire (C. E. M.) ; other parts from Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 2354; Todaro, 526. 
Annual, very mealy, and with the nauseous odour of stale salt fish. Root small. Stem 
decumbent, branched ; branches opposite, 
wide-spreading. Petioles usually about two- 
thirds as long as the laminae. Laminae ovate 
or subrhomboid, acute or subacute, up to 
about 2 ’5 cm. long. Inflorescences — terminal 
ones short, axillary ones longer and more 
numerous, usually subtended by a full-sized 
leaf. Achenes enclosed by the persistent 
perianths. Seeds black, punctate, nearly 
1 ’o mm. in diameter. 
It is interesting that this plant still exists at 
Cambridge in the same station for which it was recorded 
by John Ray ( loc . cit.) in 1660. 
Rare on landward edges of salt-marshes 
and on shingle beaches ; in its inland stations, 
it occurs in waste places and at the bottom 
of old walls ; only lowland, and chiefly 
in southern and eastern England ; from the 
Channel Isles, Cornwall, and Kent, north- 
wards to Durham ; adventitious northwards 
to Fifeshire. 
Southern Scandinavia, Denmark, Ger- 
many, Holland, Belgium, France, central 
Europe (ascending to 1675 m. in the Alps), 
Russia, southern Europe ; northern Africa ; Map 3 1 - Distribution of Chenopodium vulvaria in England 
south-western Asia; North America (adventitious). 
Series ii. Alba 
Alba nobis. 
For characters, see page 155. Only British species: — C. album. 
4. CHENOPODIUM ALBUM. Goosefoot. Plates 158, 159 
Blitum atriplex sylvestris dictum Ray Syn. ed. 3, 154 (1724); C. foliis integris racemosum Dillenius in Ray Syn. 
ed. 3 > J S 5 (i 7 2 4 ) [= var. integerrimum ] ; C. folio sinuato candicante Martyn Meth. Cantab. 17 (1727) [= var. spicatum\. 
Chenopodium album L. Sp. PI. 219 (1753)!, including C. viridei; Smith FI. Brit. 275 (1800)!; Eng. 
FI. ii, 13 (1824); excl. var. B ; Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 13 (1868); Rouy FI. France xii, 44 (1910); C. candicans 
Lamarck FI. France iii, 248 (1778) excl. var. fi ; C. leiospermum DC. FI. France iii, 390 (1805). 
1 The dates of publication of the parts of Curtis’ FI. Lond. are uncertain. See W. A. Clarke in Journ. Bot. xxxvii, 390 
et seq. (1899) and other references there cited. 
