CI. 6.] ATRIPLICES. 91 



Stigmas 2 or 3, sometimes separated from the Sta- 

 mens. Mr. Brown observes the farinaceous Albumen 

 to be sometimes deficient, that substance being fleshy 

 and in very small quantity, in Eriogonumof Michaux ; 

 Pursh N. Amer. 277 ; a genus which cannot be re- 

 moved from this very natural Order. 



Orel. 29. Atrtplices. " Calyx of 1 leaf, deeply 

 divided, bearing the definite Stamens from it's base. 

 Germen 1, superior. Style 1, or wanting, or many, 

 each with 1, rarely 2, Stigmas. Seed 1, many in Phy- 

 tolacca, 2 in Galenia, either naked, or enveloped in 

 the Calyx, or inclosed in a pulpy or capsular Peri- 

 carp. Embryo curved round the farinaceous Albu- 

 men. Stem herbaceous, in some shrubby. Flowers 

 sometimes separated. Leaves mostly alternate, un- 

 divided, entire, more or less fleshy, without Sti- 

 pulas." 



A very natural and numerous Order, especially 

 where the Seed is invested with the Calyx, as in Ba- 

 sella, Salsola, Spinachia, Che?iopoclium, Atriplex, 

 fig. 163, Biitum, Salicornia. In the two latter the 

 Stamens, being occasionally 1, 2, or 3, and bearing 

 no fixed analogy to the Calyx, are scarcely to be call- 

 ed definite. Mr. Brown denominates this Order 

 Chenopodece, with DeCandolle, and remarks that it 

 has no character to distinguish it from theAmaranthi, 

 Ord. 30, though there is a difference in habit. In 

 fact, the insertion of the Stamens is not, in either 

 tribe, so fixed, as to be depended on, though the di- 



