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rarely opposite, strapshapcd or oblong- strapshaped or oblong-elliptical, 

 wedgeshaped or attenuated at the base, not hastate, subacute,* entir'5 

 or serrate or sinuate-serrate ; the upper ones linear-strapshaped and 

 entire. Flowers monoscious, in glomerules arranged in long slender 

 terminal spikes ; spikes interrupted and leafy at the base, more dense 

 and leafless at the apex. Fruit perianth 2-valved ; valves united only at 

 the base ; rhombic-triangular or deltoid, dentate, irregularly muricated 

 on the back. Seeds all vertical, rather large, shining, nearly smooth. 

 Stem striped with green and white or red ; plant glaucous, more or 

 less thickly clothed with meal. 



Var. a, genuina. 

 Plate MCC. 



A. Kttoralis, Linn. Sp. PI. p, 1494. Bab. in Trans. Bot. Scot. Edin. Vol. II. p. 5, and 

 Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 288. 



Leaves strapshaped or oblong- strapshaped, entire or very faintly 

 toothed. Fruit perianth triangular at the apex ; the larger perianths 

 with the points often slightly recurved. 



Var. ^, marina. Linn. 



Plate MCCI. 



A. marina, Linn. Mant. p. 300. Bab. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. II. p. 6, and 



Man. Brit, Bot. *ed. vi, p. 288. 

 A. serrata, Huds. Fl, Angl. ed. i. p. 877. 

 A. littoralis, /3, serrata, Moq.-Tand. in D.G. Prod. Vol. XIII. Pt. ii. p. 96. 



Leaves oblong-strapshaped or oblong-elliptical, deeply serrate or 

 sinuate-serrate. Fruit perianth deltoid or roundish deltoid at the 

 apex ; all of them generally with the points adpressed. 



In salt marshes and waste places, and especially on embankments by 

 the sea, and particularly by tidal rivers. Var. a common, and generally 

 distributed throughout England, and reaching north to the Fifeshire 

 coast. Var. ^ apparently more rare, but abundant on the banks of the 

 Thames ; it also occurs in the Isle of Wight ; Lincoln ; York ; and it 

 is doubtless not confined to these counties, but passed over as the 

 more common form. Both forms occur in Ireland, but rather rarely. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stem 6 inches to 4 feet high, the taller forms almost always with 

 broader and more serrated leaves, though such sometimes occur on 

 the small forms as weU. Leaves shortly stalked, 1 to 4 inches long, 

 gradually attenuated into the petiole ; when toothed the largest tooth 

 never so much exceeds the others as to make the leaves hastate; 



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