PENTANDRIA. DIGTOIA. Chenopodium. 343 
(Only differing- from the preceding- in the stein, under surface of the leaves, 
and calyx being thickly set and rough with hairs : from which the pre¬ 
ceding is not always perfectly exempt. 
Hairy Rupture-Wort. H. hirsuta. Linn. Sm. With. Ed. 4. E.) Gra¬ 
velly soil. Colney Hatch, near Barnet. Cornwall. P. July—Aug. 
CHENOPO'DIUM.* Cal. with five clefts and five ribs : Bloss. 
none : Seed one, lenticular, superior, partially covered 
by the closing calyx. 
(1) Leaves angular. 
C. bonus-henri'cus. Leaves triangular-harrow-shaped, very entire ; 
spikes compound, leafless. 
Curt. 184— (E. Bot. 1033. E.)— Ludw. 18 6—Fuchs. 463— J. B. ii. 965. 2 
—FI. Dan. 579—Ger. 259—Trag. 2\7—Matth. 598—Dod. 651—Lob. 
Obs. 129. 2— Ger. Em. 329— Park. 1225. 6— H. Ox. v. 30. row 2. n. 1. 
Jigure 3d—Pet. 7. 12— Blackw. 311 —Munt. 191. 
{Stem about a foot high, rather thick, striated. Leaves large, dark-green, 
numerous. Spikes terminal and axillary, crowded. Blossoms greenish. 
E.) 
(Perennial Goose-foot. Good King Henry. E.) Wild Spinach. 
(Irish: Keahruha luhain. Welsh: Sawdl y crydd; Llys y gwrda. E.) 
Amongst rubbish, on road sides, and walls, and sometimes in pastures. 
P. May—Aug.f 
C. ur'bicum. Leaves triangular, somewhat toothed; bunches crowded, 
quite straight, laid close to the stem, very long. 
{E. Bot. 717— FI. Dan. 1148. E.)— Pet. 8. 8. 
Formerly suspected to be a variety of C . rubrum. (There seems no very 
obvious distinction except in the bunches ; unless the seed be observed, 
and this, as pointed out by Curtis, will readily determine between the 
two species; the ripe seeds of C. rubrum being no larger than grains of 
writing sand, whereas those of C. urbicum are at least five times that 
size, or about as big as rape seed. E.) Calyx smaller. Woodw. Leaves 
widely and deeply notched. 
Upright Goosefoot. (Broad-pointed Blite. E.) On dunghills, 
ditch banks, and amongst rubbish. A. Aug.—Sept. 
* (From KYjv, xrjvog, a goose, and jrsf, a foot; probably alluding to a fancied resemblance 
of the leaves of certain species to the foot of a goose. E.) 
t Cultivated as spinach about Boston, in Lincolnshire, very generally. Curt. The 
young shoots peeled and boiled, may be eaten as asparagus, which they resemble in flavour. 
They are gently laxative. The leaves are often boiled in broth. The roots are given to 
sheep that have a cough. Goats and sheep are not fond of it. Cows, horses, and 
swine refuse it. (How the name once idolized in France came to be applied to this vege¬ 
table of mean aspect, it may not be easy to trace ; but, in the opinion of a French writer, 
“ This humble plant, which grows on our plains without culture, will confer a more last¬ 
ing duration on the memory of Henri Quatre, than the statue of bronze placed on the 
Pont Neuf, though fenced with iron, and guarded by soldiers.” E.) 
