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commonly and generally distributed in England and the south of 

 Scotland ; less common beyond the Forth and Clyde. Common, and 

 generally distributed in Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Very like A. deltoidea, of which it may be but a variety, but the 

 fruit perianth is much larger, and the spikes more leafy and more 

 interrupted towards the base, the central one so much longer than 

 the others that the paniculate form is obscured. The stems are 

 generally more fiexuous, and not so stiff; at least I have found them 

 so when the plant is cultivated in the same garden with A. deltoidea, 

 from which, notwithstanding its close approximation, it seems to be 

 hereditarily distinct, at least for one generation. 



A. patula of the Linnean Herbarium is a very broad-leaved form of 

 the plant described above on page 29 under that name. A. hastata of 

 the Linnean Herbarium is A. calotheca. Fries, a very distinct sub- 

 species, which has not occurred in Britain. 



Smithes Orache. 



SPECIES (?) IV.— ATRIPLEX BABINGTONII. Woods. 



Plate MCCVI. 



Woods Tourist's, Fl. p. 316. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 289. 

 A. rosea, Bab. Trans. Bot. Soc. Vol. I. p. 13, and E.B.S. No. 2880 (non Linn.). 

 A. crassifolia, Fries, Mant. 3, p. 163, and Summ. Veg. Scand. p. 54. (non G. A. Meyer ?). 

 A. patula, var. y, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 258 (ex herb.). Benth. Handbk. Brit. Bot. 

 ed. ii. p. 392. 



Annual. Stem herbaceous, prostrate or ascending, branched; 

 branches divaricate or curved upwards and ascending at the apex. 

 Lower leaves mostly opposite, deltoid or deltoid-ovate or triangular- 

 ovate, truncate at the base, hastate with the cusps spreading, sub- 

 acute, dentate-serrate or nearly entire; upper leaves mostly alter- 

 nate, lanceolate triangular and hastate, or rhomboidal-elliptical or 

 strapshaped-elliptical, in the two latter cases not hastate. Flowers 

 monoecious, in remote glomerules arranged in lax, interrupted, leafy- 

 spikes at the extremity of the stem and branches ; spikes not com- 

 bined so as to form a panicle. Fruit perianth 2-valved, the valves 

 united from the base up to the lateral angles, roundish-rhombic or 

 quadrate-rhombic, entire or minutely denticulate towards the apex, 

 smooth or muricated on the back. Seeds large, pale reddish-brown, 

 rough, dim. Stem striped with green and white or red ; plant more 

 or less mealy. 



On sandy and shingly seashores, and in salt marshes and waste 

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