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immediately above the lateral angles, indurated towards the base, and 

 reticulated and sometimes muricatcd on the back. Seeds large, 

 reddish-brown, rugose, opaque. Stem dull red, without lines, covered 

 with white scales ; leaves and fruit perianth thickly clothed with 

 continuous pellicle of silvery white scales. 



On sandy and shingly seashores. I have seen specimens from the 

 Channel Islands ; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight ; the Kentish coast, from 

 Shellness near Ramsgate to Margate and Whitstable ; Southend and 

 Walton, Essex; Fleetwood, Lancashire; Ayr; and Lamlash, Isle of 

 Arran. Mr. Baker records it as occurring at Gotham, and on the north 

 sands at Scarborough ; and Mr. H. C. Watson considers a plant from 

 Sutherland to belong to this species, but says the specimens are too 

 young to be determined with certainty. Smith says it grew at Leith 

 and Newhaven, Edinburgh, but it is not to be found there now ; pro- 

 bably A. Babingtonii was mistaken for it on the shores of the Firth 

 of Forth. In Ireland it is rare and local ; it occurs near Roth and 

 Balbriggan, Sligo, and Dr. Dickie says it is frequent in Ulster. 



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



Stem 3 inches to 2 feet long, usually much branched, especially in 

 the lower part ; the branches weak, wiry, bluntly angular, spreadmg 

 in all directions, and curving upwards. Leaves ^ tol^ inch long; the 

 lower ones, which soon decay, nearly as broad as long, and with petioles 

 about their own length; the greater number alternate, with short 

 petioles ; those in the middle of the stem longer than broad, some- 

 what hastate ; all of them insensibly attenuated into the petioles 

 at the base. Fruit perianth variable in size, 3^ to f inch long, and 

 generally a little broader, differing from all the preceding species in 

 becoming at length indurated and swollen at the base, the lateral angles 

 and the apex very prominent; a few fruits only of each glomerule 

 maturing. Seeds often nearly as large as a hempseed, but much com- 

 pressed, pale brown, strongly beaked, separating readily from the thin 

 pericarp. Stem without stripes of different colours, dull red (not buff- 

 coloured, as often erroneously stated), thickly clothed with white scales. 

 Leaves and calyces thickly covered on both sides with white scales, which 

 do not rub off as in all the preceding species, so that the plant has a 

 much more silvery appearance than any other of the British species. 



1 have considered it better to retain Mr. Woods' name, arenaria, 

 which was suggested in his paper on Atriplex, published in the 

 " Phytologist" for 1849, as it seems to be the only one which is certainly 

 applicable to this plant. A, laciniata is represented in the Linnean 

 Herbarium by a specimen of A. arenaria, but in the description given 

 in the species Plantarum he says the leaves are deltoid. Now A. are- 

 naria appears never to have deltoid leaves. Again, Linnaeus states 

 the stem of liis A. laciniate to be straight and virgate, which is totally 



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