PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Atriplex. 271 



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Resembles A. hastata which see. Valves of the seeds more 



convex, and toothed, and tubercled on the sides, Mr. Wood- 





ward. 



Spear Orache. On rubbish and ditch-banks. A. Aug. 



Var. 2. Leaves halberd-shaped, toothed : upper leaves strap- 

 spear-shaped. Atriplex erecta. Hudson, ed. I. 



At the entrance into Battersea Field from Nine Elms. R. 

 Syn. 



A. Stem herbaceous; upright: leaves all strap-shaped; littoralis. 



very entire. Linn, or serrated. Woodward. 



Var. 1. Leaves very entire. 



E. hot. JOS-Pet. 7. 6. 



Differs from A. patula as follows. Colour always sea-green. 

 Stem furrowed. Leaves not always very entire, but sometimes 

 with scattered teeth, and bowed back at the end. Willich. ill. 

 n. 6. Stems numerous, at first trailing, afterwards declining or 

 upright, much branched. Leaves perfectly strap-shaped, the 

 lower now and then toothed. Valves of the seeds triangular, 

 toothed at the edges. 



By the Pier at Ramsgate, Kent. R. Syn. [Yarmouth, Blake- 

 ney, and Wells, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. Chisselbank, 

 Portland Island. Mr. Stackhouse.] 



Var. 2. Huds. Boccon rar. 30. l-H. ox. v. 32. 20. 

 Var. 3. Huds. Leaves blunter. Probably a variety of 1. 

 Ramsgate Pier, Kent, R. Syn. 



Var. 4. Leaves toothed. Woodward. 



Gmel. iii. 14. Q-Pet. 7- 4. 



leaves strap-shaped, alternate, fleshy, toothed, not very en. 

 tire ; in our country at least. Roth. Atriplejc marina according 

 to Mr. Lightfoot, but Linnaeus describes his marina as a plant 

 about a hand's breadth high. Mr. Woodward. A. serrata. Stem 

 herbaceous, nearly upright. Leaves strap-shaped, serrated. Huds. 

 A/ittoralis. Roth. ii. 8$. n. 2/. St. I have found some stems 

 with the very narrow entire leaves of the A. littoralis, and others, 

 which were the largest and strongest, entirely cloathed with 

 broader narrow elliptical leaves, toothed or jagged throughout, 

 and serrated leaves both from the same root. Mr. Woodw. 



Grassleaved Orache. Atriplex valvis seminum integris foliis 

 omnibus ex lineari-lanceolatis> integris et ex sinuatc-dentatis. Gmel. 



s ib. iii. p. 72. Mr. Woodward. 



Sea shores and on rubbish. By the river and on the banks 

 of the marshes about Maldon, Essex, R. Syn. (Wells, Norfolk. 

 Mr. Crowe— and Yarmouth and Blakeney, Norfolk. Mr. 

 Woodward at Wisbeach. Mr. Relhan.1 A. Aug. 



