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CHENOPODIUM glaucum«
Oak-leaved, Goosefoot.
PENTANDRIA Ligynia.
G en. C har. Cal. 5-‘deft, inferior. Cor. none. Seed 1,
lenticular, invested with the closed five-sided calyx.
Spec. Char. Leaves all oblong, with a deeply-waved
edge; glaucous beneath. Clusters compound and
dense, without leaves.
S y n . Chenopodium glaucum. Linn. Sp. PI. 320.
Sm. FI. Brit. 2 7 7« Huds. 106. With. 272.
Hull. 5 6 .
C. angustifolium laciniatum minus. Dill, in Rail
Syn. 155«
F O U N D on sandy or gravelly ground in several parts of the
neighbourhood of London, but not in many other places in
England. It is annual, flowering in August, and varies greatly
in size, from 2 inches to almost 2 feet, according to the
moisture of the soil. In rich ground it grows extremely rank,
losing its delicacy of colour, and much of those contrasted
hues of green, red, and glaucous white, which in a poor soil
render it more elegant in appearance than most of its family.
The stems are thickish, branched and spreading, often
prostrate. Leaves alternate, stalked, oblong, uniform, bluntish,
waved, almost sinuated; green and smooth above; mealy and
white beneath. Clusters terminal and axillary, short, compound,
dense, with a small leaf or two at their base, but none
interspersed between their lobe s*. Calyx-lobes obtuse, smooth
and entire. Seed blackish, very minutely dotted.