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Bouch. ? of Babington's Manual. If so, it would seem from Mr. B.'s 

 account to be rare in Britain ; in this island at least it is very abun- 

 dant. I suspect it is the A. hastata of Wahlenberg's 'Flora Suecica,' 

 2nd edition, p. 683, and perhaps of Linnaeus himself, Fl. Suec. edit. 

 2, No. 921. 



Atriplex rosea (Babington's Man.), scarcely of Linnseus ? or the 

 continental botanists. Waste places, &c. I believe very common. 

 Shore between Ryde and Binstead. Abundant on the Dover, Ryde, 

 and betwixt Ryde and Nettleston ; Mr. C. C. Babington !!! 



laciniata. On sandy sea-shores ; not common. On the 



Spit at Norton, opposite Yarmouth, in tolerable plenty. On the ex- 

 treme point of the Spit at St. Helen's ; sparingly. In Ventnor Cove 

 some years ago, but I doubt if it can be found there at present. Ra- 

 ther frequent on the shore betwixt Shanklin and Sandown, August, 

 1844, but its footing on that part of the coast is very precarious (see 

 remarks on Lathyrus maritimus in a preceding part of these Notes). 

 Shore between Sea View and Blading ; Mr. Wm. Wilson Saunders. 

 I have not remarked this plant as yet on the coast of mainland 

 Hants, but cannot doubt of its existence there. It were to be wished 

 that our other species of Atriplex were as well marked and invariable 

 in character and appearance as the present, which approaches the ge- 

 nus Halimus somewhat in the silvery scaliness (not mealiness) of the 

 leaves, and in the rounded, scarcely angular or furrowed, almost 

 woody stems of a pale yellow or reddish colour. The leaves, which 

 remind one by their shape of the great shrubby orache of the gardens, 

 A. Halimus, Z., in common cultivation here for sea-side fences, and 

 which Moquin-Tandon retains in this genus, emit the foetid odour of 

 Cheuopodium olidura, but in a far less degree. I remarked the fruc- 

 tiferous perigones to be commonly pierced by some insect unknown 

 to me, and the enclosed seed devoured by it. 



Halimus porlulacoides. In muddy salt-marshes, and especially on 

 the edges of salt pools, creeks, ditches, and tide-rivers, also on dry 

 chalky cliffs at a considerable elevation above the shore. An ex- 

 ceedingly abundant shrub on every part of the Hampshire coast suited 

 to its growth. Banks of the Medina above Cowes in plenty, and 

 along the Wootton Creek. Abundantly in Gurnet Bay, but of small 

 growth there. Fringes the marsh ditches and edges of the brine-pits 

 at the salt-works at Newtown in luxuriant profusion. By the Yar at 

 Norton. On the ledges of the lofty chalk cliffs called meads and 

 greens, between Freshwater Gate and the Needles, in various places, 



