. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 364 CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY) cent; leaves linear, persisting; flowers larger; fruit 4 mm. long; the 2 outer sepals small, at lenyth reflexed. (P. ericoides Engelm. & Gray.) â S. Mo. iBush) to Ga. and Tex. Fig. 716. 7. BRUNNICHIA Banks Calyx-divisions somewhat petal-like, oblong, connivent and coriaceous in fruit, the base and almost the whole length of the pedicel winged on one side. Stamens 8; filaments capillary. Styles 3, slender
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 364 CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY) cent; leaves linear, persisting; flowers larger; fruit 4 mm. long; the 2 outer sepals small, at lenyth reflexed. (P. ericoides Engelm. & Gray.) â S. Mo. iBush) to Ga. and Tex. Fig. 716. 7. BRUNNICHIA Banks Calyx-divisions somewhat petal-like, oblong, connivent and coriaceous in fruit, the base and almost the whole length of the pedicel winged on one side. Stamens 8; filaments capillary. Styles 3, slender; stigmas depressed-capitate. Ovule pendulous on a slender erect funiculus ; seed erect, 6-grooved. Achene obtusely trian- gular, partly 8-celled, inclosed in the indurated calyx. â Somewhat shrubby, with grooved stems, climbing by tendrils from the ends of the branches. (Named for M. T. Brunnich, a Norse naturalist of the 18th century.) 1. B. cirrhbsaGaertn. Leaves ovate, pointed, entire; petioles dilated at base, but vrith no dis- tinct sheath or stipules; flowers greenish, 2-6 717. B. oiri-lic>>.a. " in a fascicle, crowded in axillary and terminal Leaf X %. racemes ; fruiting calyx with the wing Bit of fruitiDg raceme X 1. cm. long. â Thickets, s. HI. and Mo. to Tex., Ka., and S. C. Fig. 717. CHENOPODlACEAE (Goosefoot Family) Chiefly herbs, of homely aspect, more or less succulent, with mostly alternate leaves and no stipules nor scarious bracts, minute usually greenish flowers, with the free calyx imbricated in the bud, the stamens as many as its lobes, or occa- sionally fewer, and inserted opposite them or on their base ; the \-celled ovary becoming a 1-seeded thin utricle or rarely an achene. Embryo coiled into a ring around the mealy albumen, when there is any, or else conduplicate, or spiral. Calyx persistent, mostly inclosing the fruit. Styles or stigmas 2, rarely .3-5. â Mostly inert or innocent, weedy plants; several are pot-herbs, such as Spin
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