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ASTRAG’ALUS. 
hairy; flowers blue-purple. / 
dan ‘icus. 
Stem a foot or more; leaves 4-8 inches, not hairy on the 
upper surface ; flowers dull-yellow. 
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glyciphyl'los. AM7ilkvetch e, 
A’TRIPLEX. 
a with white or red stripes ; leaves green, more or 
S rarely over 6 inches; leaves 2 or 3 inches long,- 
less sprinkled with white meal, which is easily rubbed | 
off. pat'ula. Common Orache. J 
Stem not striped; leaves clothed with minute scales, 
which adhere closely. 
Lower leaves more or less irregularly toothed, silvery > 
f white ; stem dull-red. 
L ro sea.” 
Leaves quite entire. 
eos without any stalk, clustered closely round the. 
| branches. J 
4 portulacoi‘des. Sea Purslane. 
Fruits each with a stalk as long, or longer than~ 
itself. 
peduncula'ta. ) 
BARTSIA. 
Calyx bearing hairs which are not swollen at their tips ;~ 
flowers red. . J 
Odonti'tes. Red Lartsia. 
Hairs on the calyx with little glandular swellings on | 
their tips. 
Flowers yellow; stem round; leaves with few, rather | 
j deep teeth. visco’sa ) 
Flowers dull-purple ; stem 4-angled ; leaves with. 
shallow or obscure teeth. 
alpi’na.~ 
BI'DENS. 
Leaves without stalks, not deeply divided; flower-heads- 
drooping. J 
cernua. LBur-Varigold. 
Leaves stalked, deeply divided into 3 or more parts ;~ 
flower-heads almost erect. 
triparti'ta. ) 
