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— 
PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA, 
Neatly allied to A. portulactides.. Hav. On the denc- . 
dated saline bills of the Missouri; commencing about 15 
miles below the confluence of White river, and continu- 
to the mountains. Flowering in May. 
2. hortensis. 3. patula. Both of these introduced, now 
naturalized. 4. laciniata. ; 
5.* argentea. Stem herbaceous, erect; leaves deltoid, 
subcordate, somewhat obtuse, entire, on both sides ca- 
nescently furfuraceous and shining; fruit subpedunculate, 
oval, compressed, and obtuse, margin acutely toothed. 
' Gzs.. About a foot high and considerably branched. 
_. Leaves a little attenuated on the petiole, uppermost sub- 
sessile. Fruit axillary, nearly naked on the back. Allied 
‘to A. sibirica? Has. On sterile and saline places near the 
6. * arenaria. Stem herbaceous, spreading; leaves vety 
entire, oblong-ovate, subsessile, on under side argen- 
teous, Upper ones acute or acuminate; flowers axillary, 
merate; fruiting calix muricate, dentate, retuse—Oxs. 
reddish, angular, about a foot high, much branched 
_ nd spreading, annual. Lowermost leaves often cuneate- 
oval and very obtuse; uppermost ovate-lanceolate, acutely 
acuminate, whitish and furfuraceous on both sides, but 
_». 9##more particularly on the under; about 10 or 12 lines long, 
5 wide. Male flowers mostly running out into a short 
a oe the ‘onda. of she bration female 
ay s ax . Fruiting calix cuneate, or 
retuse, with a 3 or 4-toothed re hry disk, or back 
of the fruit, on either side furnished with 2 short dentated 
rests or angles not more than half its length. Has. On 
the sandy sea-coast of New Jersey. ae in A - 
en 
_ ‘This plant has long been known to my friend Z. Collins, — 
— a distinct species. 
iefly an European n gents the above excepted, with © 
1 species at the Cape of Good Hope, 1 in ary, 1 in 
Siberia, 2 in Tartary, from whence A. hortensis is said 
to have originated, and 1 in Bengal. 
OPODIUM. L. (Goosefoot.) 
— 5-parted, with 5 angles. Corolla none. 
bifid, (rarely trifid.) Seed 1, lenticular, 
ontaly covered by the closing calix. 
