. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Chenopodium album L. Sp. PI. 219. 1753. Chenopodiiim viridc L. Sp. PI. 2ig. 1753. C. Berlandieti Moq. Enum. Chenop. 23. 1S40. C. paganum Reichenb. Fl. Germ. 579. 1830. Chenopodium album viride Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13-; 71. 1849. Annual, stem striate and grooved at least when dry, erect, commonly branched, l°-io° tall. Leaves rhombit-ovate or the upper lanceolate or linear-lanc
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . Chenopodium album L. Sp. PI. 219. 1753. Chenopodiiim viridc L. Sp. PI. 2ig. 1753. C. Berlandieti Moq. Enum. Chenop. 23. 1S40. C. paganum Reichenb. Fl. Germ. 579. 1830. Chenopodium album viride Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13-; 71. 1849. Annual, stem striate and grooved at least when dry, erect, commonly branched, l°-io° tall. Leaves rhombit-ovate or the upper lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, narrowed at the base, acute, cuspidate or sometimes obtuse at the apex, 3- nerved, white-mealy beneath or sometimes green on both sides, dentate, sinuate lobed, or entire, l'-4' long; petioles often as long as the blades; spikes terminal and )-. often panicled; calyx about i" broad in fruit, its segments strongly keeled, usually completely enclosing the utricle; styles short, seed horizontal, black, shin- ing, firmly attached to the pericarp; embryo complete ring. In waste places. A common weed throughout North America except the extreme north. Naturalized from Europe. Native also of Asia. Wild spinach. Frost- blite. Baconweed. Muckweed. Fat-hen. June-Sept. Consists of many races. 2. Chenopodium incanum (S. Wats.) Heller. Mealy Goosefoot. Fig. 1678. C. Fremonti incanum S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9; 94. 1874. C. incanum Heller, Plant World i: 23. 1897. Annual, densely white-mealy nearly or quite to the base, usually much-branched, 1° high or less, the branches ascending. Leaves ovate to rhombic, J'-i' long, often nearly as wide as long,- few-toothed with rather blunt teeth or some of them entire, paler beneath than above, the slender petioles mostly shorter than the blades; spikes short, borne in the upper axils and in terminal panicles; calyx densely mealy. In dry soil, Nebraska to Wyoming. Kansas and Ari- zona. May-July. 3. Chenopodium glaucum L. Oak-leav
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