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Linn. 8oc.'\ "Walham Green, Gr. Francis; Coop. Supp. 12. Eel-brook 

 Meadow, Parson's G-reen. South Heath, Hampstead. Primrose Hill. 

 College Street, Camden Town. Bet. Kentish Town and Highgate. 

 Behind Adelaide Eoad, N.W. Thames Embankment opp. Somerset 

 House, 1866. Hackney Wick, abundant. Isle of Dogs. 

 First record : Johnson, 1629. Atriplex sylv. tota rubra ; about St. Giles 

 in the Fields ; Merrett, 13, is a common state. ' Mr. Leighton hag 

 sent me a variety with more triangular leaves, shorter spikes and 

 larger seeds, grown in his garden from seed obtained near London ; ' 

 Bab. Man. i. 250. This seems to be a plant of which we have a speci- 

 men labelled in Sir J. E. Smith's hand, * Blitum sp. n. ? near London.' 

 A dwarf state (var. pseudo-botryoides, Wats.) occurs at (IV.) near 

 Sudbury, and in many other places. 



569. C. g^laucum, L. 



Blitum procumbens fol. Botryoidis subtus incano, Band (Budd.). Atriplex 

 Botrys fol. subtus glauco (Pet.). C. angustifol. laciniat. minus, Inst. 

 E. H. (Dill.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 320 ; iii. 497. Syme E. B. viii. t. 1198. 

 Waste places and roadsides ; rather rare. A. August, September. 

 II. Staines Moor Farm, abundant, 1867. 

 III. Koxeth ; Melv. 64. 

 rV. Kenton; Melv. 64. Beyond Kilburn and towards Edgware, 1825, 



Pamplin ; New B. G. lOl. 



VU. Mr. Eand . . . first showed it me as pretty common about London ; 



Budd. Herb, and M88. [Plentifully just going into Tothill Fields, 



near the road next Westminster; Pet. Herb, and Bot. Lond. ii.] [By 



the roadside in various places bet. Little Chelsea and Hyde Park 



Corner, 1790-95, Mr. Haworth ; Pamplin.'] In Kates Lane bet. 



Newington Common and Clapton; by a dunghill near Kentish 



Town, E. F. ; Herb. Mus. Brit. [Whitechapel Fields ; Forst. Midd. 



Near the lead mills at Hoxton, Woods ; B. G. 401.] Paddington, 



1801, Dawson Turner; Herb. Smith. Walham Green, G. Francis ; 



Coop. Supp. 12. [Abundant on waste ground behind Euston Square ; 



Jrv. M8S.] [Downshire Hill, Hampstead, 1852; Herb. Hardw.] 



In great abundance in 1867 at the back of the houses in Adelaide 



Eoad, N.W., where it was shown us by Mr. Boswell-Syme, who stated 



that there had been previously but two or three isolated plants there. 



First record : Band, about 1705 ; also first as a British plant. Petiver's 



figure of Band's Oak Blite, H. B. Cat. viii. fig. 1, is a better one of the 



London plant than that in E. B. 



570. C. Sonus-Henricus, L. Allgood. Wild Spinach. Fat Hen. 



Good King Henry. English Mercury, 

 Bonus Henricus, Ger. (Johns., Blackst.). 

 .. Cyb. Br. ii. 320. Curt. F. L. f. 3. 



