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Westerlund, author of a critical account! of the Swedish 
Atriplices, did not take up some earlier names, and so con- 
fused the synomy. Richter, “Pl. Europ.,” 1. 144 (1897) 
gives— 
a. the type. 
8B. macrotheca, Mog. (1849). 
y. stipitatwm, Hartm. (1879) 
6. pedicellatwin, Marss. (1869). 
e. parvifolium, Lange (1864, not 1886, as Richter gives). 
In the latest “Swedish Flora,’ Neuman and Ahlf., 569 
(1901), is given a var. tenuibracteatum which seems scarcely 
different to Westerlund’s var. macrotheca. 
The distribution of the species is :— 
Norway (Christiana), Sweden, Denmark, Finland, North 
Germany, Schlesvig-Holstein, but is not given for the 
Faroes (Ostenfeld) or Holland (Vuyck). 
It is given for six coast provinces of Sweden, but is 
doubtfully native in Finland. 
So far as Scotland is concerned, the following, I believe, 
will prove to be this species, but are doubtful :— 
? Shetland, Beeby, 11th August 1896, No. 1163. 
? K. Sutherland, E. L. Marshall sp. 
2 K. Ross, E. L. Marshall, 20th July 1891, No. 97. 
? Wigton, J. M‘Andrew sp. 
The only specimens I can confidently name are those 
from the coast of Moidart, Argyllshire, gathered by Mr. 
Symers Macvicar, and sent to me a few years ago with 
a series of Atriplices from that and the neighbouring coasts. 
Remarks on the species will be found in “ Ann. Scot. Nat. 
History,” 338, 35, and 119 (1899). 
A specimen of A. littoralis, L., gathered by Dr. Playfair, 
“15.9.1874, Abercorn (shore of Forth),” Linlithgow, strongly 
simulates the var. longpipes. Drejer, “ Fl. Hafn.,” 107 (1838) 
of A. calotheca, and is, I believe, referable to A. littoralis, L., 
var. y angustissimus, Marss., “Fl. Neu-Pommern,’ 394 
(1869), found in Pomerania and Hungary. 
The British Atriplices want a careful revision and colla- 
tion with Continental specimens; it is one of the neglected 
genera, but requires, above all, good specimens in good 
fruit. 
1 “ Bid. kann. Sveriges Atriplices Ak, Afl. Lund.,” 1861. 
