44 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VorumE 21 
dentate, the sides usually short-tuberculate; seed dark-brown, dull, orbicular, 1.5-2 mm. 
broad, the radicle inferior. 
Tyrer Locatiry: Southern Europe. 
Distrrvtion: Alkaline soil, often in cultivated fields or waste ground, from Wyoming to 
southern Washington, and southward to southern California and northern Chihuahua, appearing as 
if native, and adventive from New York to Florida; also in Europe, western Asia, northern Africa, 
and Australia. 
Intustrations: Fl. Dan. pl. 1284; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 24: pl. 267; Scop. Delic. Insub. 
2: pl. 8; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3: f. 29, SX; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1380; ed. 2. f. 1698; Schkuhr, 
Handb. fl. 350; Engl. Bot. pl. 2880; Sturm, Deuts. Fl. 80: pl. 3; Fiori & Paol. Ic. Fl. Ital. 7. 999%; 
Pratt, Fl. Pl. Great Brit. pl. 178, f.4; G. T. Stevens, Ill. Guide #l. 36, f. 4; Hegi, Ill. Fl. f. 553, f-k; 
Benth. Ill. Handb. f. 849. 
13. Atriplex sabulosa Rouy, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 37: xx. 1890. 
Atriplex laciniata 1. Sp. Pl. 1053, in part. 1753 
ade rig Woods, (Phytologist 3: 593; hyponym. 1849) Tour. F1.317. 1850. Not A. arenaria 
utt. : 
Alriplex maritima Hallier, Bot. Zeit. 21: Beil. 10. 1863. Not A. maritima Crantz, 1766. 
Prostrate or ascending annual, much branched, the branches stout, 2-6 dm. long, striate, 
furfuraceous or glabrate; leaves alternate, the petioles 2-5 mm. long, the blades rhombic— 
ovate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, broadly cuneate at the base, obtuse or acute at the 
apex, thin, sparsely or densely furfuraceous, irregularly repand-dentate, the teeth obtuse or 
acutish, the uppermost blades reduced, often entire; flowers monoecious, in large or few-flow- 
ered axillary spikes and usually also in short interrupted naked terminal spikes; calyx 5—- 
cleft; fruiting bracts sessile or subsessile, rhombic-hastate, 6-9 mm. long, 6-9 mm. wide, 
broadly cuneate at the base, sparsely dentate at the angles, the sides 3-merved, usually not 
appendaged, rarely obscurely tuberculate near the base; seed yellowish-brown, dull, 3-4 mm. 
broad, apiculate by the prominent radicle. 
TypE Locality: England. 
DISTRIBUTION: On beaches, New Brunswick and Quebec; also in western Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Engl. Bot. pl. 165; Fl. Dan. pl. 1284 (as A. marina); Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
24: pl. 268, f. 1-4; Moss, Cambr. Brit. Fl. pl. 185, 186; Rhodora 17: 85. f. 1, 2. 
IV. Lindleyanae. Erect or decumbent perennials, suffrutescent at the base. Jeaves 
alternate, petiolate, the blades broad, repand-dentate, densely furfuraceous. Fowers monoe- 
cious, the staminate glomerules terminal or in short spikes. Fruiting bracts sessile, inflated 
and loosely spongious, united except at the apex, unappendaged. Radicle inferior. 
14. Atriplex Lindleyi Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13%: 100. 1849, 
Airiplex halimoides Lindl. in T. L. Mitchell, Three Exped. East. Austral. 1: 282. 1838. Not A. 
halimoides Tineo, 1790. 
Atriplex inflata F. Muell. Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. 2: 75. 1858. 
Erect or ascending perennial, suffrutescent at the base, much branched, the branches 
terete, rather stout, 1.5—4 dm. long, finely white-furfuraceous, or glabrate in age; leaves alter- 
nate, the lower with petioles two thirds as long as the blades, the upper subsessile; leaf-blades 
mostly ovate-rhombic or ovate, 1-1.5 cm. long, acute or obtuse, abruptly cuneate or attenuate 
at the base, remotely repand-dentate, thick, densely white-furfuraceous, the uppermost blades 
mostly entire, oblanceolate or elliptic; flowers monoecious, the staminate glomerules sessile 
in the upper axils, terminal, or in short terminal spikes, the pistillate flowers axillary, solitary 
or fascicled; calyx 5-cleft; fruiting bracts sessile, broadly turbinate or hemispheric, 8-12 mm. 
in diameter, united, loosely spongious and inflated in fruit, the summit usually flattened, bor- 
dered by a,narrow horizontal wing or an acute angle, the small central orifice closed by small, 
entire or 3-toothed, erect valves; seed dark reddish-brown, 1.5 mm. in diameter, the radicle 
inferior. 
Tver Locarity: Along the Darling River, eastern Australia. . 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Australia; adventive or escaped from cultivation in San Diego County, 
California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bull. U.S. Dep. Agr. Bot. 27: ‘pl. 1, f. 2; F. Muell. Ic. Austr. Sals. pl. 19. 
V. Californicae. Prostrate perennials from fleshy roots, the branches herbaceous, loosely 
furfuraceous. leaves alternate, sessile, the blades entire. Flowers monoecious, the glomerules 
axillary. Fruiting bracts sessile, ovate, free, entire, unappendaged. Radicle lateral or superior. 
