42 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLumy 21 
and leathery in age, the free margins sharply denticulate, the sides tuberculate, densely fur- 
furaceous; seed black, 1.5-2 mm. long, the radicle inferior. 
TYPE LocaLity: Seashores of northern Europe. 
Distrisution: Sandy beaches, Maine; adventive in southeastern Pennsylvania and adjacent 
New Jersey; also in Europe and Asia. . 
InLustrations: Sturm, Deuts. Fl. 79: pl. 12; 80: pl. 1; Fl. Dan. pl. 1287; Engl. Bot. pl. 708; 
T. Nees, Gen. Fl. Germ. Dicot. 1: pl. 63, f. 2-8; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: pl. 266; Moss, Cambr. 
Falla tr Be oe Hegi, Ul. Fl. f. 552, a-d; Fiori & Paol. Ic. Fl. Ital. f. 998*; Pratt, Fl. Pl. Great 
rit. pl. DI. 
9. Atriplex patula L. Sp. Pl. 1053. 1753. 
Atriplex erecta Huds. Fl. Angl. 376. 1762. 
Atriplex angustifolia Smith, Fl. Brit. 1092. 1805. 
Atriplex patula littoralis A. Gray, Man. ed. 5. 409, in part. 1867. Not A. littoralisL. 1753. 
Teutliopsis patula Celak. Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 22: 168. 1872. 
Atriplex hastata patula Pons, Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital, II. 9: 417. 1902. 
Erect or usually decumbent or procumbent annual, 3-9 dm. high, much branched, the 
branches slender, obtusely angled or striate, green, glabrate; lowest leaves opposite, the others 
alternate, all short-petiolate, the blades rhombic-lanceolate to lanceolate, oblong, or narrowly 
lance-oblong, 2.5~8 cm. long, acute at the apex, broadly or narrowly cuneate at the base, the 
lower ones hastate and sinuate-dentate or usually entire, the lobes ascending, the upper blades 
entire, not lobed, all bright-green, thin, glabrate, or thinly furfuraceous beneath; flowers 
monoecious or subdioecious, in slender, naked, interrupted, simple or paniculate spikes and in 
axillary fascicles; calyx 4-parted; fruiting bracts rhombic-oval, 2-6 mm. long, often subhastate, 
acute or acutish, united only at the rounded or broadly cuneate base, herbaceous, the margins 
usually denticulate, the sides shortly and obtusely or acutely tuberculate, glabrate; seed 1.5— 
2.5 mm. broad, yellowish or black, the radicle inferior. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Europe. : 
DISTRIBUTION: In salt marshes, central California to British Columbia; New Brunswick and 
Quebec to Connecticut; adventive from New York to Maryland, North Dakota, and Illinois, 
and in North Carolina, Florida, and Alabama; also in Kurope, Asia, and northern Africa. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Engl. Bot. pl. 936, 2223; Sturm, Deuts. Fl. 79: 1. 6; Fl. Dan. pl. 1285, 2226; 
Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1378; Gaertn. Fruct. pl. 75; Schkuhr, Handb. #/. 347; T. Nees, Gen. 
Fl. Germ. Dicot. 1: #1. 63, f. 1; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24 : pl. 265; Bull. U.S. Dep. Agr. Bot. 27: 91. 
7, f. 3; Moss, Cambr. Brit. Fl. ol. 175, 176; Hegi, Il. Fl. pl. 96, f. 2, f. 552, 4; Bull. Mich. Exp. 
Sta. 267: f. 44; G. T. Stevens, Ill. Guide g/. 36, f. 6. 
10. Atriplex hastata L. Sp. Pl. 1053. 1753. 
Atriplex Halimus Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 199. 1814. Not A. Halimus %. 1753. 
Atriplex laciniata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 199. 1814. Not A. leciniata L. 1753, 
Atriplex halimoides Raf. Am. Mo. Mag. 2: 176. 1818. 
Atriplex mucronata Raf. Am. Mo. Mag. 2: 176. 1818. 
Atriplex dioica Raf. Am. Mo, Mag. 2: 176. 1818. 
Chenopodium subspicatum Nutt. Gen. 1: 199. 1818. 
Atriplex laciniata americana Torr. Fl. U.S. 1: 293. 1824. 
Atriplex Purshiana Mog. Chenop. Enum. 55. 1840. 
Atriplex tetrandra Torr.; Mog. in, DC. Prodr. 13?: 93, assynonym. 1849. 
Atriplex gracilis Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13: 95, as synonym. : 
Chenopodium hastatum Dumort. Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 4: 339. 1865. 
Atriplex patula hastata A. Gray, Man. ed. 5.409. 1867. 
Teutliopsis hastata Celak. Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 22: 168. 1872. 
Atriplex patula subspicata S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 107. 1874, 
Atriplex lapathifolia Rydb. Mem. N. Y¥. Bot. Gard. 1: 133. 1900. 
Atriplex carnosa A. Nelson, Bot. Gaz. 34: 361. 1902. 
Atriplex subspicata Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 33: 137. 1906. 
Erect, decumbent, or procumbent annual, 3-9 dm. high, usually much branched, the 
branches slender or stout, ascending or spreading, obtusely angled, sparsely or densely fur- 
furaceous when young, often glabrate, green or stramineous; lowest leaves usually opposite, 
the others alternate, the lower with slender petioles half as long as the blades or shorter, the 
upper short-petioled; lower leaf-blades triangular-hastate to rounded-deltoid, 2.5—-7 cm. long 
and often nearly as broad, acute or obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base or with a rounded 
sinus, entire or usually sinuate-dentate or shallowly repand-dentate, the basal lobes acute, 
spreading or reflexed, the upper blades hastate-oblong, hastate-lanceolate, oblong, or lanceo- 
late, smaller, mostly entire, acute at the apex, truncate or broadly cuneate at the base, all 
the blades thin or succulent, bright-green or densely furfuraceous; flowers monoecious or 
