CHENOPODIUM 
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II. CHENOPODIUM BOTRYODES. Plate 169 
Chenopodium botryodes Smith Eng. Bot. no. 2247 (1811); Eng. FI. ii, 11 (1828); C. crassifolium 
Hornemann Hort. Reg. Hafn. 254 (1815); Roehmer et Schultes Syst. Veg. vi, 262 (1820); Blitum crassifolium 
Reichenbach FI. Germ. Excurs. 582 (1830); C. rubrutn var. crassifolium G. F. W. Meyer Chlor. Hanov. 464 
(1836); C. rubrum var. paucidentatum Koch Syn. ed. 2,699 ( 1 844) ; Blitum polymorphum var. crassifolium Moquin 
Chenopod. Monogr. Enum. 45 (1840); C. rubrum var. salinum Godron FI. Lorraine ii, 243 (1845); C. rubrum var. 
crassifolium Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii, pt. ii, 84 (1849); Rouy FI. France xii, 49 (1910); C. rubrum var. botry- 
odes Hooker and Arnott Brit. FI. 346 (1850); Sonder FI. Hamb. 145 (1851); C. rubrum subsp. botryodes Syme 
Eng. Bot. viii, 21 (1868). 
leones Smith Eng. Bot. t. 2247 ; FI. Dan. t. 2894, fig. 1 — 2, as Blitum botryodes. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 169. (a) Flowering shoot, (b) Lower leaf, (c) Seeds, (d) Seeds (enlarged). 
Kent (J. G.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 169 bis, as Blitum rubrum var. crassifolium ; 
herb. Marshall, 1188, 2516, 2589. 
In Smith’s herbarium, there are two plants named C. botryodes : 
of these, one is a not very typical example of the species, and the 
other a specimen of C. rubrum var. spathulatum. In the same herbarium 
a very typical specimen of C. botryodes is named C. rubrum ?. 
Annual, allied to C. rubrum , but a smaller plant than 
C. rubrum var. blito'ides and C. rubrum var. vulgare. Stem 
ascending or prostrate, somewhat angular, branched often from 
the base, lower branches divaricate. Petioles often about as long 
as the laminae. Laminae subrhomboidal to triangular, rather 
succulent, subentire or with a few small and usually distant teeth, 
nearly as broad as long, more or less obtuse. Inflorescences 
usually not or only a little leafy towards the apices. Flowers 
small ; August and September. Perianth with 5 rather succulent 
segments. Filaments slender, a little longer than the perianth. 
Seeds dark red to black, rather larger and more elongate than in 
C. rubrum , about 075 — cr85 mm. by 0’6 — 07. 
Indigenous, chiefly by the sea, by the sides of brackish 
ditches, and on the landward margins of salt-marshes and reached 
only by the very highest tides. Channel Isles (Guernsey), Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, 
Norfolk. 
Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, France, central Europe, southern Europe; North America. 
Map 36. Distribution of Chenopodium 
botryodes in England 
12. CHENOPODIUM GLAUCUM. Plate 170 
C. angustifolium laciniatum minus Dillenius in Ray Syn. ed. 3, 155 (1724). 
Chenopodium glaucum l. Sp. PI. 220 (1753)!; Smith FI. Brit. 277 (1800)!; Eng. FI. ii, 14 (1824); 
Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 23 (1868); Rouy FI. France xii, 48 (1910). 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1454; FI. Dan. t. 1151; Beck in Reichenbach Icon, xxiv, t. 248. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 170. ( a ) Flowering shoots. ( b ) Young shoot. ( c ) Lower leaves. ( d ) Seeds 
(enlarged). Sussex (T. H.). 
Exsiccata: — Billot, 2355; Reichenbach, 866; Herb. FI. Ingric ., iv, 514 (a small-leaved form). 
Annual. Stem about 5 — 50 cm. long ; erect, decumbent, or prostrate ; usually branched, 
branches spreading. Petioles rather stout, of the lower leaves less than half as long as the laminae. 
Laminae oblong, margin sinuous, obtuse, often about 3 cm. long and 1 broad, thick, rather glaucous 
and sometimes purplish above, very glaucous-looking underneath owing to the presence of numerous, 
hard, “ mealy ” hairs. Inflorescences with branches shorter than the subtending leaves, not or little 
branched, rather leafy at the base, terminal and lateral. Flozvers small ; August and September. 
Perianth with 3 — 5 segments. Filaments short. Achenes enveloped by the persistent perianth ; 
September and October. 
