Rhagodia. | XCVI. CHENOPODIACEX. 153 
petiole, from scarcely j in in. long, usu ud y green ies 
when f 4 rn and pale o or whitish underneath, the margins often re- 
never ni terminal, ppe much branched 
than the ovem perianth. — ae Et Labill. PL Nov. 
Holl. i. 71, t. 96; Rhagodia baccata, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. n. e 
Hook, x l Tasm. i. 312 ; .H. iens. Moi E Enum. 10 (with 
eg broad leaves approaching the var. congesta 
Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls; oy river and Ash island, 
Beli ite: iier specimens not good and ‘rather doubtful) ; ; Twofold Bay, 4. Cun- 
others. i 
F Madla ietoria, Abundant along the sea-coast from the Glenelg to the eastern frontier, 
mith coast 7 D. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; common in salt marshes 9 on the 
coas Pur eit Te harir and others. 
S agit stralia. Lower Murray river and round St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller and 
Australia. Goos a cky Bays, R. Brown ; common along the sea- 
coast fro m King Sorgas S ey "remm demit y nd M urchison are Fraser, Drum- 
amo A 209, ÔL field a Me and eastward to the Great Big well. 
tol he numerous forms which this species assumes, many of - no doubt owing 
ocal influences, the following are the inst distinct in the dry, st 
„Var. congesta, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 312. Low and much ande densely crowded 
with leaves and inflorescences; lotrel Late th — e small cd and there hastate.— 
M odium conges wen U^ ok. f. in Hook. Lo as urn i. 280; Rhagodió congesta, 
Y i sedan — Tasmania and Vic ria. EA 
Ei DO De fais R -line radi ata, Nees in Pl. Preiss 
ot, in DC. Prod. xiii i a ar or n W. P. adi where it quss very pin 
ru Pei or linear oblong leaved form there very abundan - p siti 
Eins of th rom the linear-leaved form of R. ene we olia by the recurved or 
of the pre and e more branched panic 
IR. parabolica, 2. Dr. Prod. 406. An ohi Mnn ANN 
sometimes 8 or 10 ft. , but often d lower, mealy-white all over or 
the more slender specimens ir adult ee green. 
Momboidal, usually itis at m e end 
"We contracted or rarely — diente st she coat 
> ften under } in. long. Flowers, as in R. 
—— sometimes very dense and crowded, sometime loo c^ "ed 
ovate frianth mealy-tomentose an sometim 
» obtuse, — united at the base than in — -— cie 
ine diameter, but the succulent ripe : 
ult 1 line diameter. Schlecht, in Linnea S 574; Mog. in DC. 
lea 2d. 61; A. Cunn. Herb.; Moq. l.e.:01 (with t e 
ves less white dii in he ghee form). 
