. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. Obdeb 105.—CHENOPODIACB^. 611 length, dry, globular, with 1 vertical seed ; embryo annular.— 21 Half shrubby, with alternate, petiolate, pinnate-veined Ivs. and fls. in simple terminal, soon lateral racemes. R. Ifevis L. Erect, branched, glabrous and bright green;' Its. ovate acuminate, subeordate or obtuse at base, suborenulate; rao. longer than the leaves; fls. rose- white, green in fruit; stam. 4; sep. oval, obtuse.—Pla. t
. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. Obdeb 105.—CHENOPODIACB^. 611 length, dry, globular, with 1 vertical seed ; embryo annular.— 21 Half shrubby, with alternate, petiolate, pinnate-veined Ivs. and fls. in simple terminal, soon lateral racemes. R. Ifevis L. Erect, branched, glabrous and bright green;' Its. ovate acuminate, subeordate or obtuse at base, suborenulate; rao. longer than the leaves; fls. rose- white, green in fruit; stam. 4; sep. oval, obtuse.—Pla. to Tex. Plant 6 to il high, much resembling in aspect Phytolacca. St. furrowed. JJva. 2 to 4' by 1 to 2', petioles 1' to 18". Sep. enlarged in fruit, then 2" long. Okdeb civ. BASELLACE^ Serls glabrous, often twining and climbing, with alternate leaves. Flowers per- fect, regular, with a double, imbricated calyx often colored. Stamens perigynous. Otherwise as in Chenopodiacea:. Pig. 3GS. A small order, containing 6 genera and 21 spa:ies, chiefly tropical. BOUSSINGAUL'TIA, Kunth. Mexican Vine. (Dedicated to the celebrated chemist Boussingault.) Fls. membranous, calyx open, the exterior shorter; tube very short; stigmas 3, subclavatc; pericarp membranous; embryo annular with the albumen central.—Vines twining to the right. Lvs. thick, petiolate. Fls. in spicate rac. B. baselloides Kunth. Lvs. rather fleshy, broadly cordate-ovate, acuminate or the larger ones obtuse, short-petioled; racemes loose, simple or branched; fil. dilated below; stig. sessile.—Cultivated for shades and arbors. A vine of rapid growth, arising many feet. Lvs. 1—3' long. Racemes numerous, greenish. t S. Am. Order CV. CHENOPODIACE^. Chenopods or Goose-foots. Eerbs chiefly weed-like and homely, more or less fleshy, with alternate, exstipu- late leaves. Bracts not searious. Flowers minute, greenish, regular. Calyx imbri- cated in bud. Stamens perigynous, as many as, and opposite to the calyx
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