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SORE NETT Po ee ee a aa 
Atriplex. | XCVI. CHENOPODIACE X, 175 
baceous, procumbent or prostrate, much branched and slender, gideren] 
y-white. 
Leaves petiolate, oblong oblanceolate or cuneate and 4 to lin. long 
the margins. Fruit half-enclosed in the tube.  Radicle lateral.— 
C . xiii. 5/97. 
eensland. Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Rockhampton, O’Shanesy; Darling 
Downs, Lau ; Armadilla, Barton ; Curriwillighie, Dalton. : 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, Brown; Liverpool plains, A. Cunningham, 
Leichhardt; Ballandool river, Locker. 
ictoria, Murray river, Herrgott ; Wimmera, Dallachy (in leaf only and doubt- 
ful) ; Little river, Fullagur. 
S. Australia. Holdfast Bay, Gawler river, Port Adelaide, F. Mueller. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 222, (or 228?). 
17. A 
a hard almost woody base, but apparently annual, the stems about 1 ft. 
long, with numerous shortly ascending branches, the whole plant mi- - 
mutely sealy-hoary. Leaves shortly petiolate, obovate orbicular or 
2 i 
most of them smaller. Flowers monecious, in axillary clusters, sma 
and not numerous, the males and females mixed. Fruiting perianths 
with a short solid turbinate base, broadly deltoid or rhomboid, scarcely 
above 1 line diameter, the valves flat. entire or 3-toothed. 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 249. The habit is that of scd ata, but on a 
Very much larger scale, and the fruiting perianth much larger and flatter. 
18. A.M 
with à hard ba e, more or less mealy-white, but not so densely scaly as 
the shrubby p 
2015, all axillary, the males in the upper axils in little globular heads 
surrounded by * bw “ervi us tti lone clustered in the lower 
axils, ruiting perianths sessile, 1 to ines diameter, 
compressed globular smooth tube, the valves short broad appressed, 
“rtly toothed. Fruit enclosed in the tube. Radicle superior. 
d. Peak Downs, F, Mueller ; Armadilla, Barton. 
N. S. Wales. Li l pains, Leichhardt. 
S. * Lagoons on the Murray, 
Bs ia. In the interior, Howitt's Expedition. $ 
This is referred by F. Mueller, Fragm. vii. 9, to the European A. rosea, but that isa 
; much more scaly-tomentose species, the fruiting perianth is larger, broader 
