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generally not hastate at the base. Spikes somewhat interrupted and 

 lax towards the base. Fruit perianth usually entire. Plant grey from 

 the abundance of white meal. 



Var. a in cultivated fields, waste places, and by roadsides. Common, 

 and probably generally distributed in England. Apparently rare in 

 Scotland, where I have gathered it only between Edinburgh and Por- 

 tobello. Var. (3 common, and generally distributed on the seashore in 

 England : I have not noticed it in Scotland, but it is very probable it 

 occurs there. One of the forms is frequent in Ireland, but I am 

 unable to say which. 



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



A^ar. a has the stem 6 inches to 3 feet high, much branched. Largest 

 leaves 1 to 4 inches long, terminal. Spikes 1^ to 3 inches long, the 

 lateral ones f to 3 inches long, the terminal spike without leaves from 

 its apex to its point, where the uppermost lateral spike is given off; 

 lateral spikes leafless. Perianth in fruit -^q to ^ inch long. Larger 

 seeds about the size of rape seed, the smaller ones much more 

 numerous, and about -^^ inch across, the larger ones -^^ inch across. 



A"ar. |3 has the stem prostrate ; the leaves entire or only slightly 

 toothed, more fleshy, the upper ones generally not hastate, but quite 

 entire; the spikes are less distinctly panicled, and more lax; the 

 perianth usually larger, and the whole plant clothed with whitish 

 meal, often so abundant that it gives a grey or hoary appearance to the 

 stem, leaves, and perianths. 



Triangular-leaved Orache. 

 French, Arroclie en fer de lance. German, Spiesshldttnge Melde. 



Sub-Species (?) II.— Atriplex Smithii. 



Plate MCCV. 



A. patula, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 936. Eooh. & Am, Brit. Fl. ccl. viii. p. 3G4. Bah. 



Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin, Vol. I. p. 10 (non Linn. Herb.). 

 A. hastata, Iliids. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 289 (non Linn. Herb.), 



Upper leaves not hastate at the base. Fruit in lax interrupted 

 spikes; spikes arranged in a slightly branched panicle, leafy towards 

 the base, the terminal spike very much longer than the lateral ones, 

 which are erect-ascending. Fruit perianth triangular or rhombic- 

 deltoid, broadly wedgeshaped at the base, considerably exceeding the 

 fruit, nearly entire, and commonly muricated on the back. The 

 greater number of seeds large, reddish-chestnut, rather dim ; a few of 

 them smaller, pitchy or black, shining and smooth. 



In cultivated ground and in waste place?:, and by the seashore. 



