. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. CHENOPODIACEAE. Vol. II. 13. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus L. Good King Henry. Perennial Goosefoot. Fig. 1689. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus L. Sp. PI. 218. 1753. Blitum Bonus-Henricus Reichb. Fl. 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. Leav
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. CHENOPODIACEAE. Vol. II. 13. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus L. Good King Henry. Perennial Goosefoot. Fig. 1689. Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus L. Sp. PI. 218. 1753. Blitum Bonus-Henricus Reichb. Fl. 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 axillary, simple or panicled, com- monly dense spikes sometimes 3'-4' long; calyx 4- S-parted, the segments not longer than the fruit; styles elongate; seed vertical, or that of terminal flowers horizontal, black, shining, blunt-edged; embryo a complete ring. _ In waste places, Nova Scotia and Ontario to Massa- chusetts and southern New York. Naturalized from Europe. All good. English mercury. Wild spinach. Fat-hen. Roman plant. Elite. Mercury-goosefoot. Smiddy-Ieaves. Markery. June-Sept. 14. Chenopodium Botrys L. Feather Geranium. Jerusalem Oak. Fig. 1690. Chenopodium Botrys L. Sp PI. 219. 1753. Annual, 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-S-parted, the segments lanceolate, acute, thin, very pubescent, rather longer than the utricle; seed horizontal or v
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