“Tao dp 
406 
~IDSey, 
CHENOPODIACEAE. 
| ge. ok 
[| Chenopodium. 
Bree Trenno. 172A: 4a 
.C. triandrum Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 129.— A much-branched 
i or trailing herb, pale-green, glabrous or more or less mealy- 
tomentose; stems slender, 6-18in. long, sometimes almost woody at 
the base. Leaves opposite or alternate, petiolate, 4+-lin. long, very 
variable in shape, broadly oblong or orbicular to broadly triangular- 
hastate, obtuse or rounded at the tip, cuneate or rounded or truncate 
at the base, thin and membranous, green and glabrous or slightly mealy; 
petioles slen ~ --=« «arw minute, farinose, in axillary or terminal 
lax-flowered j obtuse. 
Stamens 2-4 
persistent p' 
utricle.—A. 
Raoul Chois 
Fl. (1864) é 
t. 164. 
NorvtTa 
Strait, not uncommon Near-ve.._ 
~hlana 
3. ©. glaueum Linn. Sp. Plant. (1753) 220.— A much-branched pro-~ 
strate fleshy and succulent annual herb; branches widely spreading, 
flaccid, glabrous, striate. 4-18 in. long, rarely ascending at the tips. Leaves 
petiolate, the Ic a 
or rhomboid, us 
angularly sinua’ 
green and glabr WT SNOPIYD THM 
smaller and nai Ee ] 
arranged in sin ve £1auUCUM Ne ow lvs. 3 pr. lobes 
usually more o ver. seed ° 
short, obtuse ™ 
horizontal 
Precur. (1é 
(1853) 213 
161 ; Chees 
(1810) 407. 
NorTH 
or sandy plac 
ber—March. 
Also occt — 
temperate As ean eV NLL PIAL LS SO ne t ‘ 
separate variety or species 3 ( (C. ambiguum R. Br.), but the au oyericery: appear te gis slight 
and inconstant. 
ol Chenopodium urbicum, Linn. 
te 
irr not native to N.Z. see T.N.Z.1.- 
up 
0 vol. 57, p. 63. (Ckn. & Allan). 
Ce 
iain. 90 SUB twa Un veney = 
zontal, much depressed, minutely. punctulate, margins obtuse—Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 2138; Handb. N.Z. FI. (1864). 230; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 581. 
