166 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. [ Atriplex. 
Ee or ens ay ee or eg pei and then am cluster usually 
surrou ded by es; sters, 
nding the male as well as the Saale flowers usually minute, or quite 
obsolete. 
The genus Y distributed over most parts of the globe, chiefly in maritime or 
subsaline districts, some species also frequenting a cultivated grounds. Of the thirty 
Australian species, one is a common Europe he of iine E of modern 
introduction into Australia, two are also in New P» and, the appear all to 
endemic, for although one is nearly allied to a New Cale dont: species, another to & 
Sout n one, ta t ay be mo pare other exotic ones, 
there are none which ve been able precisely to identifi The pecific characters 
ar tances taken chiefly from the frui perianths, which are so extraordi- 
narily diversified in : enus, and which eviden also to ertain degree even 
on the same individu It may therefore possibly be shown hereafter that in some in- 
stances a disGuetiogs here relied upon may not prove sufficiently constant to retain 
their specific value. "T 
Maru, relying apparently on observations communicated by Fengl, considers t 
the lobes or valves of the female perianth. of Atr iplex are really bracts (bracte oles), for ü 
comis. In 
an\ thiag that might be pan for minute periant -8e Pena nalen it be sometimes some 
tamens. e 
at the bas cand enolosin ng 5 the owe. as in ae and in Exomis albicans, W 
to, to Atr 
osi sts [aw after Pliny, tre ated the name Atriplex as s of the neut 
instea ry of th e e minine pec der is classical authority for both, I have pre refe : 
iei Linnzus, De Candolle pe ihe phim majority of botanists in treating it 
emi 
n the oir sink of the Maret ne — I have been unable to retain Mo b 
distinction betwe pica plin d Obione even as sectional The thi okei i 
n 
and so well define 
Series 1, Pani —Dice emidicecious scaly tomentose 
r8 in more or less men or dapes dense or interrupted lea leafless spikes. 
Diccious, us, both se xes puis, 
Fruiting sent 
Fru ng periauths reniform. Spikes in male panicles inter- 
ruiting perianths on a slender stipes dg. ooru eee 
shrubs, the male j 
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