CHENOPODIUM 
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(/ 3 ) forma microphyllum comb. nov. ; C. glaucum var. microphyllum Moquin Chenopod. Monogr. Enurn. 3 1 
(1840); Rouy FI. France xii, 48 (19 10). 
Exsiccata : — Herb. Marshall, as C. glaucum. 
Smaller, usually more prostrate, its 
branches more divaricate. 
A form of margins of ponds, and damp heathy 
places, which are dry in summer. Surrey. 
France, Germany, and doubtless elsewhere. 
Usually on damp, rich, waste ground, 
near farm-yards and manure-heaps ; rarely 
on sandy and shingly sea-shores. Local, in 
southern and eastern England, from the 
Channel Isles, Dorset, and Sussex north- 
wards to Northumberland. Adventitious in 
Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Hol- 
land, Belgium, France, central Europe, Russia, 
southern Europe; Asia; Greenland; America 
(? adventitious). 
Section IV. *MONOCARPUS 
Monocarpus Ascherson FI. Brandenb. 572 
(1864); Blitum L. Gen. PI. ed. 5, 6 (1754) as 
a genus ; Bentham and Hooker Gen. PI. iii, 52 
(1880); Volkens in Engler und Prantl Pflanzen- 
fam. iii, pt. i a, 61 (1893). 
For characters, see page 154. Only 
British species ; — *C. capitatum. 
13. ^CHENOPODIUM CAPITATUM 
4r Chenopodium capitatum Ascherson FI. Brandenb. 572 (1864); Rouy FI. France xii, 50 (1910); 
Blitum capitatum L. Sp. PI. 4 ( 1 75 3 ) -• 
Annual, scarcely mealy. Stem erect, not leafy towards the summit. Petioles long. Laminae 
subhastate, shallowly sinuate-dentate to entire, very acute, rather thick. Inflorescences agglomerated, 
lower ones with a subtending leaf, upper ones leafless. Flowers July and August. Seeds with a 
carinal border, acute ; August and September. 
Rare, and not indigenous. Carnarvonshire; Ireland — co. Fermanagh: “in fields at Farnaght for over a 
century past” (Praeger Tourist's FI. West Ireland , p. 180 (1909)). 
Origin unknown, but naturalised in central and southern Scandinavia, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, 
France, central Europe (ascending to 1715 m. in Switzerland), rare in southern Europe. 
Tribe 2. BETEAE 
Beteae Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii, pt. ii, 43 et 49 (1849) emend.; Volkens in Engler und Prantl 
Pjlanzenfam. iii, pt. i a, 52 et 54 (1893). 
For characters, see page 153. Only British genus; — Beta. 
Genus 2. Beta 
Beta [Tournefort Inst. 501, t. 686 (1719)] L. Sp. PI. 222 (1753) et Gen. PI. ed. 5, 103 (1754); Volkens 
in Engler und Prantl Pjlanzenfam. iii, pt. i a, 56 (1893). 
Differs from Chenopodium in the following characters : — Perianth becoming thicker, especially 
towards the base as the fruit ripens, and becoming adherent to the fruit. Ovary subinferior. Fruit 
a 1 -seeded pyxidium. 
Species about 9 ; Europe and Asia. Only British genus : — Beta. 
Wales (Glamorganshire) and Scotland (Fife- 
shire). 
