DICOTYLEDONS WITH INCOMPLETE FLOWERS. 
Natural Order 
CHENOPODIACEfff. Tab. 68. 
Diagnosis. —Herbs (or exotic under-shrubs) with alternate or opposite 
exstipulate leaves; sometimes succulent and leafless. Perianth small, 
herbaceous, regular. Stamens hypogynous or perigynous, as many as 
perianth-segments and opposite to them. Ovary free or partially adherent, 
i-celled with one ovule. Embryo curved. 
Distribution. —A large and cosmopolitan Natural Order, especially affecting maritime or saline 
localities. A considerable section of the Order abounds in the salt plains of Temperate and Central 
Asia. A few species are everywhere weeds of cultivation. 
Number of British Genera, 6; Species, 24. 
Stem fleshy, jointed and leafless in Glasswort (Salicornia), often sold as Samphire. 
LEAVES various ; fleshy in Sea Blite (Suceda); spine-pointed in Saltwort ( Sctlsola Kali). 
Flowers clustered with succulent adherent perianths, at length hard and inclosing the seed, in Beet {Beta); 
imbedded in 3’s in the internodes in Glasswort; in Orache (. Atriplex) unisexual or polygamous, the pistillate flowers 
inclosed between a pair of accrescent appressed bracts which replace the perianth. 
Stamens i or 2 in Glasswort. 
Seeds with or without mealy albumen; the embryo curved or spirally wound. 
USES, &c.—None of the species are hurtful; several are familiar pot-herbs, and one South American species, 
Quinoa ( Chenopodium Quinoa), affords in its copious seeds a valuable farinaceous food. The more important 
