Chenopodiastrum ambrosioides, Linn.

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

*8. C. ambrosioides, Linn. ; Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 72.

An erect much-branched annual of 1 to 2 ft., not mealy but more or less glandular-dotted and strongly aromatic. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, acute or obtuse, the lower oues irregularly toothed or sinuate, contracted into a short petiole, from under 1 in. to above 2 in. long, the upper ones smaller and entire, passing into small linear or linear-lanceolate acute petiolate bracts, all green on both sides, glandular underneath. Flowers very small and numerous, solitary or clustered in the axils of bracts which are either minute or leafy and longer than the clusters, the clusters forming more or less leafy slender interrupted spikes, arranged in a large leafy panicle occupying the greater part of the plant. Fruiting perianth about ½ line diameter, the lobes short, completely or almost completely covering the fruit. Seeds smooth and shining, all or mostly horizontal. Queensland. Moreton Bay , F. Mueller; Rockhampton, O'Shanesy.

N. S. Wales. Port Jackson , R. Brown and others; New England, C. Stuart.

W. Australia, Drummond, n. 207.

A common weed in southern Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, and spread with cultivation over many parts of the world. It is probably introduced only into Australia as suggested in R. Brown's notes, and on that account omitted in his Prodromus.