. 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. CHEXOPODIACEAE. Vol II. 13. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus L. Good King Henry. Perennial Goosef cot. Fig. 1689. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus L. Sp. PI. 218. 1753. Blilum Bonus-Henricus Reichb. FI. Germ. Exc. 582. 1830-32. Perennial by a thick rootstock, glabrous, dark green, not mealy: stem erect, usually stout, simple or little branched, channeled, i°-2i° tall. Leaves broa
. 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. CHEXOPODIACEAE. Vol II. 13. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus L. Good King Henry. Perennial Goosef cot. Fig. 1689. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus L. Sp. PI. 218. 1753. Blilum Bonus-Henricus Reichb. FI. Germ. Exc. 582. 1830-32. Perennial by a thick rootstock, glabrous, dark green, not mealy: stem erect, usually stout, simple or little branched, channeled, i°-2i° tall. Leaves broadly triangular-hastate, palmately veined, entire or undulate (rarely with i or 2 small teeth), the apex and basal lobes usually acute, the lower long- petioled (petiole often twice as long as the blade), the upper much smaller and short-petioled; flowers in terminal and axillarj-, simple or panicled, com- monly dense spikes sometimes t,'-j,' long; calyx 4- 5-parted, the segments not longer than the fruit; styles elongate; seed vertical, or that of terminal flowers horizontal, black, shining, blunt-edged; embrj'o a complete ring. In waste places. Nova Scotia and Ontario to Massa- Naturalized from Europe. All good. English mercury. Wild i:e. llercury-goosefoot. Smiddy-Ieaves. Markery. June-Sept. Feather Geranium. Jerusalem Oak. Fig. 1690. chusetts and southern New spinach. Fat-hen. Roman plant. B 14. Chenopodium Botrys L Chenopodium Bolrys L. Sp PI. 219. 1753. .\nnual, green, glandular-pubescent and viscid, strong-scented; stem slender, erect, simple or branched, 8'-2'' tall. Leaves ovate or oblong, deeply and usually irregularly pinnately lobed, acute or obtuse at the apex, petioled, i'-2' long, or the upper- most much smaller, the lobes mostly obtuse and dentate; flowers in numerous loose axillary cymose panicles mostly longer than the leaves; calyx 3-5-parted. the segments lanceolate, acute, thin, very pubescent, rather longer than the utricle; seed horizontal or vert
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