. 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. Botany. II. Chenopodium hybridum L. Maple-leaved Goosefoot. Fi Chenopodium hybridum L. Sp. PI. 21. Annual, bright green, not mealy, sometimes more or less scurfy; stem slender, erect, usually branched, 2^-4i° tall. Leaves ovate or rhombic- ovate, long-acuminate at the apex, truncate rounded or subcordate at the base, thin, slender- petioled, sharply dentate with 1-4 large acu
. 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. Botany. II. Chenopodium hybridum L. Maple-leaved Goosefoot. Fi Chenopodium hybridum L. Sp. PI. 21. Annual, bright green, not mealy, sometimes more or less scurfy; stem slender, erect, usually branched, 2^-4i° tall. Leaves ovate or rhombic- ovate, long-acuminate at the apex, truncate rounded or subcordate at the base, thin, slender- petioled, sharply dentate with 1-4 large acute teeth on each side, or the upper lanceolate and entire, the lower 4-7' long; flowers in large axillary and terminal panicles; calyx about i" broad, its segments oblong, rather obtuse, herba- ceous, slightly keeled, incompletely covering the fruit; stamens 5; styles short; seed horizontal, sharp-edged, firmly attached to the pericarp; embryo a complete ring. In woods and thickets, sometimes in waste places, Quebec to British Columbia, south to southeastern New York. Kentucky, Arkansas, Utah and New Mexico. Also in Europe. Sow-bane, Swine's-bane. July-Sept. 2. Chenopodiiun rubrum L. Red Goosefoot. Pigweed. Fig. 1C88. Chenopodium nibrum L. Sp. PI. 218. 1-53. Blitum rubrum Reichb. Fl. Germ. Exc. 582. 1830-32. Annual, glabrous, somewhat fleshy, not mealy, stem erect, leafy, i°-2i° tall, often much branched, the branches strict or ascending. Leaves thick, I *'-4' long, rhombic-ovate or rhombic-lanceolate, petioled, acute acuminate or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, coarsely sinuate-dentate or the upper entire; flowers in erect compound leafy- bracted axillary and terminal spikes often exceed- ing the leaves; calyx 3-5-parted, its segments ^lightly fleshy, red, not keeled, obtuse, about as long as the utricle; stamens i or 2; styles short; seed horizontal, i" wide, shining, rather sharp- edged, separating from the pericarp; embryo annular. On the seacoast, Ne
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