. Selected western flora : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . Botany; Botany; Botany. 38 SELECTED WESTERN FLORA 5. C. glaiicum, L. Oak-leaved Goosefoot. Stem low, spreading, mealy; leaves oblong, pale beneath, sinuately-toothed; flowers in small axillary spikes. Waste places and alkaline soil, 6. C. album, L. Lamb's Quahtbrs, Pigweed. Erect, 1-4 ft. high, generally mealy; leaves vary- ing from almost linear above to ovate below, the lower angular-toothed; flower clusters dense; lobes of the calyx covering the seeds. A common weed in cultivated ground. 2. AXYRIS Flowers monoecious; st
. Selected western flora : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta . Botany; Botany; Botany. 38 SELECTED WESTERN FLORA 5. C. glaiicum, L. Oak-leaved Goosefoot. Stem low, spreading, mealy; leaves oblong, pale beneath, sinuately-toothed; flowers in small axillary spikes. Waste places and alkaline soil, 6. C. album, L. Lamb's Quahtbrs, Pigweed. Erect, 1-4 ft. high, generally mealy; leaves vary- ing from almost linear above to ovate below, the lower angular-toothed; flower clusters dense; lobes of the calyx covering the seeds. A common weed in cultivated ground. 2. AXYRIS Flowers monoecious; sterile very small with 3-5-parted calyx and 2-5 stamens, fertile with 3-4-pajted calyx, 2 stigmas and flattened ovary, rather hairy and arranged below the sterile; utricle enclosed in the perianth. 1. A. amarantoides, L. Russian Pigweed. Erect, 1-2J ft. high, slightly pubescent, much branched; leaves ovate to lanceolate, mostly entire, on slender petioles; flowers in dense leafy clusters the minute staminate ones towards the ends of the stems; fruit oval, flattened; seed black but not shiny. An unsightly weed in waste places- about towns in Man., and extending westward along the railways. 3. ATRIPLEX. Herbs resembling the last genus except that the flowers are mo- noeoious or dioecious, the sterile resembling the flowers of the Che- nopodium, vrith an undeveloped pistil, the fertile consisting of a naked pistil enclosed by a pair of bracts which become enlarged in fruit; the long axis of the seed lengthwise with the flower. 1. A. argentea, Nutt. Low, much branched, gray-scurfy; leaves varying from deltoid to hastate; sterile flowers in terminal spikes, the fertile in axillary clusters; bracts of the fertile flowers united, with their margins toothed or wavy. Waste places, 2. A. Nuttaim, Wats. A whitish or pale green scurfy shrub 1-2 ft. high, with rather stiff, erect branches; leaves linear to oblong or oblanceolate; flowers in dense clusters. Fig. 34. — Cheno- podi
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