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spinage, from whence it sometimes escapes, or is carried out with re- 

 fuse or manure into the adjoining fields and waste places, but is no- 

 where persistent with us in such situations. At most, therefore, it 

 can only merit a passing notice with Reseda alba, Nicandra physa- 

 loides, and some other foreigners, transitory outcasts or stray subjects 

 of our Flora hospita. 



Atriplex littoralis. On the muddy beach, upon banks and along 

 ditches by the sea, in salt-marshes, &c, not uncommonly. On the 

 sea-beach betwixt Ryde and Binstead. By the Medina above Cowes 

 at Medham brickfield. Most abundantly along the shore betwixt 

 Springfield and Nettleston Fort. Under the shore nearly below 

 Bouldner, by Yarmouth. In Thorness Bay and Newtown marshes. 

 Coast near Cowes ; and most other parts of the coast ; Mr. VV. D. 

 Snooke (Fl. Vect.). I have not attended to the distribution of this 

 species on the opposite mainland coast, but suppose it to be there 

 pretty general. Betwixt Southampton and Netley. The shore (Fare- 

 ham) everywhere ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



marina. With the last, and possibly not rare, but hav- 

 ing till lately been accustomed to look on it as a toothed-leaved va- 

 riety of A. littoralis, T find no stations recorded for it apart from the 

 last. Under the shore nearly below Bouldner, with A. littoralis, and 

 I think seen elsewhere in the island. Probably not unfrequent on the 

 opposite mainland coast. Hayling Island. Perhaps not specifically 

 distinct from A. littoralis, but the closed perigone in opposition to the 

 open one (when in seed) of the latter may, if constant, be allowed to 

 weigh in favour of their separation. 



angustifolia. In waste ground, fields, gardens, by road- 

 sides, &c, very common everywhere. A. erecta is no doubt a native 

 of the county and Isle of Wight, as Mr. Babington says it is common 

 on cultivated land. With my present imperfect knowledge of these 

 protean plants, I probably confound this and the next together. 



patula. In similar places with the last ; universally, if 



I do not mix it up with other forms or species of Atriplex. A large 

 straggling, prostrate or decumbent plant, with broadly triangular or 

 hastate leaves, more or less white or hoary with crystalline efflores- 

 cence, is very common along the coast by high-water mark, as on the 

 shores of Brading harbour, near Carpenter's, &c, along the shore be- 

 twixt Ryde and Binstead, and plentifully on the shore north of 

 Shanklin Chine, &c. This I have not yet carefully examined, as it 

 perhaps deserves, having been accustomed to esteem it a sea-side 

 form of A. patula, and now suppose it may be the A. proslrata, 



