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Distributed throughout all the Districts. Stem spreading or 

 decumbent. Leaves mostly lanceolate, or the upper ones linear. 

 Spikes elongate, rather lax, very long, arranged in slightly branched 

 panicles. Fruit perianth entire, usually not muricated on the back. 



2. A. erecta, (Huds.) upright Orache. UngL Bot. t. 2223. 

 Koch in St. 79, 6. 



Locality. Cultivated land. A. FL July, October. Area, * -^ * 4. * 

 North Division. 



4. North-ivest District, "On cultivated land in Spye Park," 

 Professor Bahington. Rare in Wilts. Stem erect. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, the lower ones broader and hastate. Perianth of the fruit 

 rhomboidal, denticulate, usually tuberculate on the back. Spikes 

 branched, dense, man3'-flowered. It has much the habit of 

 " Chenopodium ficifoliutn." 



'6. A. deltdidea, (Bab.) triangular-leaved Orache. Engl. Bot. 

 Suppl. t. 2860. 



Locality. Cultivated and waste land. A. Fl. June, October. 

 Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Not unfrequent in all the Districts. Stems erect, or spreading. 

 Lower leaves broadly triangular or hastate, often coarsely and 

 irregularly toothed. Perianth toothed, muricate on the back. 

 Seed all shining, smooth, some about the size of rape-seed. 



4. A. hastata, (Linn.) Halberd-leaved Orache. Engl. Bot. t. 

 936. A. patula, Sm. A. latifolia, St. 79, 7. 



Locality. Cultivated and waste ground. A. Fl. June, October. 

 Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Recorded in all the Districts. A very variable plant in the shape 

 of the leaf, and in the fruiting perianth. Flowers in small clusters 

 on long interrupted axillary spikes. Perianth of the fruit variable, 

 larger seeds, dark brown, rough, compressed, smaller seeds black 

 and shining. 



ORDER. POLYGONACE^. (JTJSS.) 



RuMEX, (Linn.) Dock, or Sorrel. 



Linn. CI. vi. Ord. iii. 



The name of this genus of plants is derived from a Roman name 



