Chenopodium glaucum, Linn .

George Bentham & Ferdinand Mueller, 1870, Chenopodium & Dysphania, Flora Australiensis, London: L. Reeve & Co., pp. 157-165 : -1

7. C. glaucum, Linn. ; Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 72.

An annual, much-branched diffuse and prostrate or decumbent at the base, the stems ascending to 1 ft. or more, glabrous striate and furrowed. Leaves petiolate, the lower ones broadly lanceolate or almost rhomboidal or hastate, coarsely sinuate-toothed, often above 1 in. long, the upper ones gradually smaller narrower and more entire, the uppermost passing into small bracts, all green above and more or less white underneath. Flowers small, nearly glabrous, in clusters or short leafless irregular spikes, the lower clusters or spikes axillary and much shorter than the leaves, the upper ones forming terminal interrupted spikes leafy at the base only. Perianth-segments rather thin, or the keel somewhat thickened, closely appressed on the fruit but not completely covering it. Stamen usually 1 only. Fruits about ½ line diameter, mostly depressed with a horizontally flat seed, but some of the lateral ones occasionally with a vertical seed and the perianth-segments reduced to 4 or 3.

Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 313; C. ambigmun, R. Br. Prod. 407; Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 67. N. S. Wales. Paramatta , Woolls; Ash island , Becker.

Victoria. Along the coast from the Glenelg , Robertson and others , to Gipps Land , F. Mueller and others .

Tasmania. Port Dalrymple , R. Brown; common on the seacoast near high-water mark , J.D. Hooker.

S. Australia. Kangaroo island , R. Brown; Bethanie , F. Mueller. W. Australia. Drummond, n. 225 (in some herbaria 235); Port Gregory, Oldfield. The species is common in many parts of Europe and temperate Asia, and occurs here and there in other parts of the globe.

C. littorale. Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 65, described from a specimen of Caley's in the Paris Herbarium, which I have not seen, may, from the character given, be a form either of this species or of C. album.