164 
CHENOPODIUM 
leones Beck in Reichenbach Icon, xxiv, t. 256, as C. rubrum var. acuminatum. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 166. (a) Flowering shoot, (b) Seeds (enlarged). Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Linn, herb., as C. rubrum ; Reichenbach, 330, as C. rubrum ; Woloszczak ( FI . Polon. Exsicc.), 
870, as Blitum polymorphum var. rubrum. 
Stem tall, up to 7 dm. high, strongly grooved. Petioles about half as long as the laminae 
or rather more. Laminae rather narrowly deltoid, margin with large irregular teeth, the second 
or third tooth from the base much larger than the others, apex markedly acuminate. Inflorescence 
rather less dense than in var. vulgare. 
Rich, waste places and manure-heaps ; Somerset, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, 
Gloucestershire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire. 
Germany, Belgium, France, central Europe, Russia. 
(b) C. rubrum var. vulgare Wallroth Sched. Crit. 507 (1822) incl. var. foliosum\ Rouy Ft. France xii, 49 
(1910); C. rubrum subsp. eu-rubrum var. genuinnm Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 22 (1868). 
leones: — Curtis FI. Lond. ii, 65 as C. rubrum ; Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1721, as C. rubrum ; FI. Dan. 1149, as 
C. rubrum ; Beck in Reichenbach Icon, xxiv, t. 255, fig. 1, as C. mbrum. 
Exsiccata: — Billot, 169, as Blitum rubrum ; Herb. FI. Ingric. iv, 518, as Blitum polymorphum. 
Stem erect, branched, up to half a metre high. Laminae subrhomboid, toothed, teeth sub- 
regular, second tooth from the bottom rather larger than the others, apex acute, about two-thirds 
as broad as long. 
(c) C. rubrum var. glomeratum Wallroth Sched. Crit. 507 (1822); Rouy FI. France xii, 49 (1910). 
Stem erect. Leaves much smaller than in the preceding varieties. Laminae attenuate at 
the base, entire or subentire. Perianth not succulent. Partial inflorescences axillary, small, more 
or less crowded. 
Kent (herb. Marshall, 1075). 
(d) C. rubrum var. spathulatum Rouy FI. France xii, 49 (1910); Blitum rubrum var. spathulatum Cosson, 
Germain, et Weddell Introd. FI. Paris 108 (1842) excl. syn. Lejeune ; B. polymorphum var. spathulatum Cosson 
et Germain FI. Env. Paris 454 (1845). 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate i6y. Flowering shoot. Cambridgeshire (A. F.). 
Stem erect, up to about a third of a metre high, slender and rather flexuous. Laminae 
small, rather thick, attenuate at the base, entire or subentire. Inflorescences very leafy. 
Mr A. Fryer, who supplied the specimen figured in Plate 167, regarded the plant as an erect form of var. pseudo-botryoides , 
and stated that this was the view of H. C. Watson. 
Damp, rich, waste place, at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. 
( e ) C. rubrum var. pseudo-botryoides [Watson in Lond. Cat. Brit. Plants ed. 6, 18 (1867)! nomen] Babington 
Manual ed. 7, 294 (1884); C. rubrum subsp. eu-rubrum var. pseudo-botryoides Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 22 (1868); 
Blitum mbrum var. nanum Jacobsen in Bot. Tidsskr. 96 (1879) nomen; C. rubrum var. diffusum [Boenning- 
hausen ex] Beckhaus FI. West/. 756 (1893); C. rubrum forma pseudo-botryoides Druce FI. Berks. 420 (1897)!; 
C. rubrum var. humile [Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii, pt. ii, 84 (1849) partim, non C. humile Hooker] Rouy FI. 
France xii, 49 (1910). 
leones: — Syme Eng. Bot. t. 1197, as C. [subsp.] eu-rubrum var. pseudo-botryoides. This is of an unusually 
brilliant red colour. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 168. (a) Whole plant, (b) Seeds (four enlarged). Somerset (E. S. M.). 
Stem procumbent or prostrate, branched from the base. Laminae more or less spathulate, 
smaller than in the preceding varieties, more succulent. Inflorescences shorter, more or less sub- 
capitulate. Seeds rather smaller. 
Borders of salt-marshes and of inland ponds in lowland localities ; Cornwall, Devonshire, Somerset, Sussex, 
Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Carmarthenshire; ? Fifeshire ; co. Wexford. 
Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, central Europe, Russia, southern Europe; Asia; North 
America. 
C. rubrum occurs in damp, rich soil in cultivated ground and on manure-heaps chiefly, but 
also (chiefly as var. spathulatum ) on the landward edges of salt-marshes, and on the banks of 
ponds ; in lowland situations, northwards to Northumberland and the Scottish lowlands ; rare in 
Wales, Scotland and Ireland (counties Kerry and Wexford to Galway and Antrim); adventitious 
in many of its stations. 
Western, central (1200m.), and southern Europe; Asia Minor, central Asia; North America. 
