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generally very loose, ovate, not turbinate. Flowers generally 
incomplete ; calyx 4-cleft, rarely 5-cleft. Stamens one or two. 
4. Chenopodium acutifolium.—Near Bangor, August 26, 
1828.—Edge of the seed horizontal; pellicle or capsule tur- 
binate, tightly enclosing the seed; at the base of the pellicle 
is fastened the umbilical cord, which lies in a groove on the 
edge of the seed, to which it is attached at the notch; in this 
instance lateral (not lowest.) Seed not distinctly dotted. 
Calyx generally 5-cleft, one or two of the stamens often 
wanting. Stem irregularly 4-sided. 
5. Beta maritima.— Anglesea, July 24, 1826.—Styles always 
three: germen 3-sided; when the seed is nearly ripe, the 
germen becomes purple and granulated. Flowers often three 
together, 
6. Salsola Kali.—Anglesea, August 8, 1826. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx (I believe) 5-leaved ; leaves ovato-lanceo- 
late, acute, keeled, the base of each overlaying the other. 
Capsule not imbedded, but surrounded by the calyx.—S»zc. 
Cuar. Bracteas fringed with spinule. Calyx not dilated 
until after the impregnation, and without any appendage 
at first; although, at an early stage, the place where it 
originates is visible as a transverse green line, a little 
below the middle of each leaf of the calyx. This soon 
expands into a membranous, shining, unequally ne 
Or wavy appendage: the calyx-leaves remain erect, as a 
first, Me. ers Mind than in being a little 
dilated and more fleshy and concave within. 
7. Ulmus montana.—May, 1827.—The seed of U. montana 
is without albumen.  Cotyledons ovate. 
8. Cuscuta Epithymum.—Near Holyhead, July 1%, 1828. 
GEN. Cuar. Embryo not horizontal, I believe, in this 
. Species, but vertically convolute, not spiral, "gnati 
by albumen, which also passes through the curve 
the embryo. Both the skins of the seed are thick, 
the outer granulated or papillose.—SPEc. CHAR. di 
ments inserted at the top of the throat, the scales o 
corolla placed below them, near the base of the throat, 
