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leaves ovate-oblong repand, racemes naked fimple glo¬ 
merate. Stem from twelve to eighteen inches high, an¬ 
gular, green. According to Villars, it has much affinity 
to the chenopodium album; but the leaves are blunt 
and quite-.white; the items are lower, and very much 
branched. 
IT. With fimple leaves. 15. Chenopodium vulvaria, 
or itinking goofefoot: leaves quite entire rhomboid-ovate, 
flowers conglomerate axillary. The whole plant is fprink- 
led with a white pellucid meal. This fpecies is eafily 
known by its decumbency, and its permanently difagree- 
able odour of itale fait fiih, both green and dried. Com¬ 
mon on dry banks, and at the foot of walls and paling. 
On account of its ftrong fcent, it is reckoned an ufeful 
antihylleric ; fome recommend a conferve of the leaves, 
others an inflation in water, others a fpirituous tinfture of 
them. On fome occafions, it may perhaps be preferable 
to the fetids which have been more commonly made ufe 
of, as not being accompanied with any pungency or irri¬ 
tation, and feeming, to aft merely by virtue of its odorous 
principle. It is omitted in the laft edition of the London 
Pharmacopeia, and, as Allioni affirms, is not undeferv- 
edly neglefted. This herb dyes a good ftrong greenifh 
lemon colour. 
16. Chenopodium polyfpermum, or round-leaved goofe¬ 
foot, upright biite, or allleed : leaves quite entire ovate, 
ftem decumbent, cymes dichotomous, leaflets axillary. 
This fpecies is fufficiently obvious from its fquare ltalk 
generally of a bright red colour, its long extended branches, 
and its reddiffi leeds which are numerous and ltrikingly 
visible from being only in part covered with the calyx. 
It has the appearance of a frnall amaranth. Linnteus lays 
the ftem is decumbent; Curtis makes it in general nearly 
upright; according to Lightfootand Reichard it is fome- 
times one, fometimes the other. Mr. Curtis remarks 
that it is a troublefome weed to the gardener, but fcarcely 
injurious to the farmer. Mr. Woodward, however, fays 
that it is generally found in turnip-fields; and Ray affirms 
that it grows abundantly in hop-grounds, and corn-fields 
where the foil is good. It is a very grateful food to fifh 
in ponds. 
17. Chenopodium fcoparia, or flax-leaved goofefoot, 
belvedere, or fummer cyprefs: leaves linear-lanceolate 
flat quite entire This is a beautiful plant, naturally dif- 
pofed to grow very clofe and thick, and in as regular a 
pyramid'as if cut by art. The leaves are a pleafant green ; 
were it not for that, it has fo much the appearance of a 
cyprefs-tree, that at fome diftance it might be taken for 
it. Scopoli affirms that this plant drives away bugs. It 
grows wild in Carniola, Greece, China, and Japan. Cul¬ 
tivated 1633. 
18. Chenopodium maritinum, orfea goofefoot, or white 
glaffwort; leaves fubulate femicylindric. Grows on fea- 
fhores, and in fait marffies; it is an excellent pot-herb. 
It varies much in fize and appearance ; being either very 
fmall and decumbent, or elfe growing up into an ereft 
woody fhrub. 
19. Chenopodium ariftatum, or awned goofefoot : 
leaves lanceolate fomewhat flelhy quite entire ; corymbs 
dichotomous awned axillary. Native of Siberia and 
Virginia. 
ao. Chenopodium oppofitifolium, or oppofite-leaved 
goolefoot: leaves oppoiite lanceolate-fubulate very fhort. 
Stem round, fomewhat woody and even. The appearance 
of this is different from that of the other fpecies; per- 
perhaps it may be a polycnemum. Native of Siberia. 
21. Chenopodium punftulatum, or dotted leaved goofe¬ 
foot: leaves dotted with white, the bottom ones rhomb- 
ovate finuate, the uppermoft eliptic; racemes lateral 
fpiked leafy. Root annual; ftem ereft, two feet high, 
round, ftriuted, rigid, yellowiffi at the bafe, red in other 
parts with white dots lcattered all over it. The white 
dots magnified, appear to be rounder oval granules, more 
®r lefs flatted, dark in the middle, but lucid towards the 
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edge: there are many of thefe on the upper leaves, but 
few on the lower. It is not a native of Europe. ,The 
feeds were fent by Marligli, and the plant flowered in the 
garden at Pavia on the 28th of June, 1786. 
22, Chenopodium triandrum, or three-ftamened goofe¬ 
foot : leaves cordate-fagittate, Ipikes terminal leaflets in¬ 
terrupted. Found in New Zealand. 
23. Chenopodium laterale, or branching oblong-leaved 
goofefoot : Item-leaves lanceolate obtufe, thole of the 
branches oblong ; peduncles lateral folitary one-flowered. 
Introduced 1781, by P. M. A. Brouffonet, M. D. 
Propagation and Culture. Moll of thefe plants are to be 
eradicated as weeds rather than cultivated. Being very 
fucculent and exhaufting, and abounding very much in 
feeds, they fnould be carefully deftroyed, efpecially on 
dunghills. Sow the feed of Englifh mercury in March, 
on a deep loamy foil, prepared as for afparagus, let the 
feedlings continue to grow till autumn ; about the middle 
of September, taking advantage of a wet feafon, let the 
plants out on a bed fimilar to that on which they were 
fown, about a foot apart; keep them clear of weeds, and 
the enfuing fpring and fummer they will afford an abun¬ 
dant crop : the young thoots with their leaves and tops 
are to be cut as they fpring up ; and being a perennial 
plant it will continue thus plentifully to produce for a 
great number of years. In the winter the bed is to be 
covered with dung, which fbould be raked off as the 
fpring advances, when the earth around the roots is care¬ 
fully to be dug or forked up. The feeds of all the fpecies 
fucceed bell, if they are fown in autumn; for when they 
are fown in the fpring, they frequently lie a whole year 
before the plants come up : for which reafon where the 
feeds fcatter, the plants will come up much better than 
thofe which are fown by hand. See Am aranthus, II- 
LECEBRIUM, POLYCNEMUM, and SaLSOLA. 
CHENZI'NI, or Chinting, a town of Poland, in the 
palatinate of Sandomirz ; near it are mines of fil.ver and 
lead, and quarries of marble; fixteen miles ealt of Ma- 
lagocz. 
CHEOPPNA, [from to pour out, and tnyu, to 
drink.] A meafure containing fixteen ounces. Achopine. 
CHE'OPS,or Cheospes, a king of Egypt, after Rhamp- 
finitus, who built famous pyramids, upon which 1060 ta¬ 
lents were expended only in fupplying the workmen with 
leeks, parfley, garlic, and other vegetables. 
CHE / OU, a town of China, of the fecond rank, in the 
province of Kiang-nan : 455 miles fouth of Peking. Lat. 
32.34. N. Ion. 134.9. E. Ferro. 
CHE'OU-QUANG, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Chang-tong : five miles north-eaft of 
Tcin-tcbeou. 
CHE'OU-TCHANG, a town of China, of the third 
rank, in the province of Tche-kiang : five leagues fouth - 
well of Yen-tcheou. 
CHE'OU-TCHANG, a town of China, of the third 
rank, in the province of Chang-tong : nine leagues north- 
eaft of Po. 
CHE'OU-TCHING, a town of China, of the third 
rank, in the province of Fo-kien : fixty-two miles north- 
eaft of Kien-nhing. 
CHE'OU-YANG, a town of China, in the province of 
Chan-fi : ten miles eaft of Tai-yuen. 
CHEPAWA'S, or Chipeways, an Indian nation in 
North America, ihhabi.ing the coafc of lake Superior and 
the iflands in the lake. Other tribes of this nation inha¬ 
bit the country round Saguinam, or Sagan a bay and lake 
Huron, bay Puan, and a part of lake Michigan, They 
were lately hoftile to the United States, but, by the treaty 
of Greenville, Auguft 3, 1795, they yielded to them the 
ifland de Bois Blanc. 
CHEPE'LIO, a fmall ifland near the coaft of America, 
in the gulf of Panama, about a league in circumference s 
fix leagues from Panama. 
CiiEPEL'jLO, an ifland in the bay of Panama, South 
5 L America?, 
