Chapter C: BONUS-HENRICUS, L. (GOOD-KING-HENRY.) Stout, erect (1--2 deg. high),

mostly simple; _leaves broadly triangular-hastate_ (2--3' long), obtuse or acute, _subsinuate or entire; flowers somewhat densely paniculately spiked; seed with obtuse edges_. (Blitum Bonus-Henricus, _Reichenb._)--Sparingly introduced. (Adv. from Eu.)

Sec. 3. _Annual, glabrous; calyx more or less fleshy in fruit and often colored, enclosing the utricle; seed mostly vertical; embryo a complete ring; flowers in crowded clusters, axillary or in spikes._

4. C. rubrum, L. (COAST BLITE.) Stem angled, much branched; leaves thickish, triangular-lanceolate, tapering below into a wedge-shaped base and above into a slender point, sparingly and coarsely toothed, the upper linear-lanceolate; _clusters scattered in axillary leafy spikes; calyx-lobes 2--4, rather fleshy_; stamens 1--2; seed shining, the margin acute. (Blitum maritimum, _Nutt._)--Sea-coast of Northern States, and in saline places to Minn. (Eu.)

5. C. capitatum, Watson. (STRAWBERRY BLITE.) Stem ascending, branching; leaves triangular and somewhat halberd-shaped, sinuate-toothed; _clusters simple (large), interruptedly spiked, the upper leafless; stamens 1--5; calyx berry-like_ in fruit; seed ovoid, flattish, smooth, with a very narrow margin. (Blitum capitatum, _L._)--Dry rich ground, along the Great Lakes, northward and westward. The calyx becomes pulpy and bright red in fruit, when the large clusters look like strawberries. (Eu.)

Sec. 4. _Annual, not mealy, but more or less glandular-pubescent, aromatic; calyx 2--3-parted, dry in fruit; seed often vertical; embryo not a complete ring._

C. BOTRYS, L. (JERUSALEM OAK. FEATHER GERANIUM.) Glandular-pubescent and viscid; _leaves slender-petioled_, oblong, obtuse, sinuate-pinnatifid; _racemes cymose-diverging, loose, leafless_; fruit not perfectly enclosed.--Widely introduced. (Nat. from Eu.)