346 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Chenopodium. 
C. mura'le, Leaves egg-shaped, shining, toothed, acute: spikes aggre¬ 
gate, panicled, cymose, leafless. 
(j E. Bot. 1722. E.)— Pet. 8. 5—Ger. 256.2-J. B. ii. 976.1. 
(Stem very much branched, often tinged with purple. Leaves triangular- 
egg-shaped, lengthened at the base, rather thick. Seeds very minutely 
dotted. Plant smelling disagreeably. 
Nettle-leaved Goosefoot. (Thick Shining Blite, E.) Dunghills, 
and rubbish, under walls, and waste places. A. July—Aug. 
(2) Leaves entire. 
C. o'lidum. Leaves very entire, lozenge-egg-shaped: flowers con¬ 
gregated, axillary. 
Curt. — (FI. Dan. 1152— E.Bot. 1034. E.)— Woodv. 145— Ger. 258— Dad. 
616.2 —Lob. Obs. 128. 4— Ger. Em. 327— Park. 749, 9— Pet. 7. 11— 
Blackw. 100— J.B. ii. 975. 1— H. Ox. v. 31. 6. 
Trailing on the ground, and smelling like stale salt fish. (Leaves whitish, 
powdery. Flowers small, in oblong interrupted spikes. E.) 
Fetid Goosefoot. C.vulvaria. Linn. Road sides, old walls, and on rub¬ 
bish, also frequent among sand near the sea. At the foot of the walls, 
Yarmouth ; and at Cambridge. Mr. Woodward. Opposite Shoreditch 
Workhouse. Mr. Whately. (Friar’s Goose, and by road sides near 
Westoe, Durham. Mr. Winch. Fisher-row, Links, and race course, 
Musselburgh. Maughan. Grev. Edin. E.) A. Aug.* 
C. polysper'mum. Leaves very entire, egg-shaped: stem upright, or 
nearly so : calyx of the fruit open. Curt. 
Curt. — (FI. Dan. 1153— Fuchs. 174— E. Bot. 1480. E.)— H. Ox. v. 30. row 
3. 6—Dod. 617. 2—J. B. ii. 967. 2—H. Ox. Ib. 3 —Ger. 257.3— Pet. 7. 10 
— Lob. Obs. 129. 1— Ger. Em. 325.3— Park. 754. 3. 
(Leaves petiolate, more or less acute, branches long. Stems quadrangular, 
often reddish. Seeds (or rather seed-vessels) brown, shining, very ap¬ 
parent, and very numerous. Hook. Stamens very evanescent; it is rare to 
meet with five; sometimes there are only three, often but one or two, 
frequently none. 
Smith describes this plant with stems prostrate; we have again examined 
several specimens, and still think they agree with the figure and cha¬ 
racter of Curtis. In the English Botany, vol 21. p. 1481. we find our 
plant cited as C. acutifolium of that work. Lightfoot, however, admits 
that A. polyspermum grows both erect and reclining; and Purton observes, 
that in remarkably luxuriant specimens, with branches spreading full a 
yard from the stem, some leaves are often found pointed, others more 
or less blunt or rounded; in the young shoots the flowers are spike-like; 
in the older, the tufts are remarkably large and spreading; stems per¬ 
fectly decumbent, perhaps owing to age or luxuriance: so that the latter 
writer is much inclined to think that A.polyspermum and acutifolium do 
not specifically differ: an opinion confirmed by Professor Hooker, who 
states that u the characters of this and acutifolium vary into each other, 
even on the same individual.” E.) 
All-seed Goosefoot or Elite. Cultivated ground and dunghills. 
Generally in turnip fields. Mr. Woodward. A. July—Aug. 
* Scent rank, and fetid. It has the reputation of being an anti-hysteric. Cows, 
horses,* goats, and sheep eat it. Swine refuse it. Phalwna-exsoleta is found upon it. 
