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FLOWERING PLANTS. ie6 
Beta maritima, L. Sea Beet. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Very common all round the coast. Sometimes, though rarely, 
this plant is found on banks inland, as in the lane behind the Mill 
Cottages, on the Catel Road. 
Closely allied to, if not the parent stock of, the Beets and 
Beetroots of agriculture. The name is supposed to be derived 
from the resemblance of the seed to the second letter of the Greek 
alphabet. 
Salicornia herbacea, L. Glasswort. Marsh Samphire. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Frequent in muddy salt marshes. Brackish pool at Pulias. 
Close to the Vale pond. Below the causeway to Rousse Tower. 
Marshy field by Ivy Castle in 1891. Most of the plants belong 
either to the var. procumbens, Sm., or the var. patula, Duv. J. 
In former days this plant was collected in large quantities for the 
production of barilla, and on the shores of the Mediterranean it 
is still used for the purpose together with some allied maritime 
species. 
Atriplex littoralis, L. Grass-leaved Sea Orache. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Frequent in the neighbourhood of Lerée and Perelle. Spur 
Point, St. Sampson’s. Sparingly at Richmond (Andrews). Var. 
marina, L., still occurs at Lerée Bay, where Babington gathered it 
sixty years ago. 
The name Orache is of obscure origin, and its meaning is 
uncertain. It was formerly written Avach and Arasches; the French 
name is Arroche. 
Atriplex patula, L. Narrow-leaved Orache. 
Native. First record: Gosselin, 1815. 
Common throughout the island in cultivated fields and waste 
ground. Var. angustifolia, Sm., and var. erecta, Huds., are 
more or less plentiful in all districts, but, like some others belonging 
to this genus, often present perplexing forms. 
Atriplex deltoidea, Bab. Triangular-leaved Orache. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. , 
Rather common, especially in the low-lying districts. This 
species was originally described in the Alora Sarnica by Prot. 
Babington from specimens found by him at the Braye du Vale and 
below Fort George, and his description was copied in the 5th edition 
(1842) of Hooker’s British Flora. Var. salina, Bab. Frequent 
on the shingle all round the shores of the lowlands. 
