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SPECIES II.— A TRIPLEX PATULA. "Lmu." WaJd. 

 Tlates MCCII. MCCIII. 

 Annual. Stem herbaceous, erect or decumbent, branched; the 

 branches divaricate or curved upwards and ascendmg at the apex, 

 rarely erect. Lower leaves opposite, rhombic-elliptical or rhombic- 

 triangular, wedgeshaped at the base, hastate Avith the cusps ascending, 

 acute or subacute, entire or serrate; upper leaves mostly alternate, 

 oblong-strapshaped or elliptical-strapshaped or strapshaped, ordinarily 

 entire. Flowers moncBcious, in glomerules arranged in long rather 

 dense terminal spikes, leafy at the base, leafless at the apex. Fruit 

 perianth 2-valved, the valves united only at the base, rhombic or 

 rhombic-deltoid or rhombic-triangular, entire or denticulate, smooth 

 or muricated on the back. Seeds all vertical, rather large, finely 

 rugose. Stem striped with green and white; plant deep green, more 

 or less clothed with white meal. 



Var. a, angustifolia. 



Plate MCCII. 



A. angustifolia, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1774. Bah. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. II. 

 p. 7, and Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 289. 



Stem ascending or procumbent, weak, slender; branches divaricate 

 and often geniculate. Leaves entire or nearly entire, with the basal 

 angle usually less than a right angle. Spikes elongate, rather lax, 

 very long, arranged in slightly branched panicle. Fruit perianth 

 cntu'e, usually not muricated on the back. 



Yar. 3, serrata. 



A. erecta, Aud. Anrj. Plur. (non 8m.}. 



Stem ascending or erect, weak, slender; branches divaricate, and 

 often geniculate. Lower leaves denticulate or dentate-serrate, with the 

 basal angle commonly a right angle. Spikes rather short, rather dense, 

 arranged in a very lax slightly branched panicle. Fruit perianth 

 usually denticulate, usually muricated on the back. 



Yar. 7, erecta. 

 Plate MCCIII. 



A. erecta, '' Hiuls. El. Angl. ed. i. p. 376." Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 259. I?a&. Man. 



Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 279 (in part). 

 A. patula, ft, muricata, "Led." Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 313. 



Stem erect, stout, thick; branches erect or ascending, straight. 



