176 XCVI. CHENOPODIACEJE. [ Atriplex. 
flatter, the disk reticulate and sometimes muricate, and He radicle of the pad lateral. 
t. ller 
i is, as ek rved by F. Mueller, aN ed to A, semibaccata, but more mealy and 
otherwise ities t both in foliage and fruiting perianth. "The true A. roses s said by 
Moquin in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 92, to d foinid d in “ New Holland,” but the speci di autho- 
rity is not given, and I have seen no daralan specimen of it. 
ophylla, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 8. A small slender 
19. A. elach 
puisnehed plant, hard and almost woody, diffuse or procumbent, - 
aves 
jameter, 
scaly-tomentose, with 5 very short road green valves, usually toothed 
on the margin. Fruit enclosed in the tube. Seed compressed; radicle 
superior. 
N. Australia. Desert of Sturt’s Creek, F. Mueller. 
20. microcarpa, Benth. A small diffuse or procumbent herb, 
with a hard stem and numerous ascending branches not exceeding 6 in. 
perianth rhomboidal, compressed, scarcely 1 line long and b 
membranous, densely and softly tomentose, the lower half closed, the 
upper moiety consisting of 2 entire valves. Radicle of the seed superior. 
Wales. Clay flats, Banaroo (Darling desert), Victorian Expedition. 
It is possible that this and the following species mex pro ve to be varieties of 4: 
pumilio, but at present they appear to me to be quite distinc 
91. A. prostra R. Br. Prod. 406, not of Moquin. A prostrate 
scaly-tomentose annual, with dente much branched let stems ex- 
tending from an inch or two to half a foot or rather more. 
shortly peticlatė, oblong or rarely ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, mostly entire, 
1 to 2 lines owers moneecious, the male clusters in the upp" 
axils sarectnds ar b : fo females, the females alone several together 
in the lower axils. Dun d. rianth tomentose, obovoid-rhombol 
slightly compressed s scarcel P line goi closed to above the broad 
middle, the valves short bud anti entire. d parallel to the valves; ™ 
dicle superior. 35i decumbens, Roem. kg Schult. Syst. vi. 289. 
S. Australia. A Sie Island, R. Brow 
to lor2in. Leaves sessile or very s pin ovate ODE i Hd : 
oblong. entire or simuate-toothed, 1 1 to 11 
