280 



tire, or sometimes slightly toothed, stalked. Spikes long, erect, clusters distinct, of 

 from 4 — ^^2 or more flowers. Enlarged calyx-valves rhomboidal-ovate, acute, toothed, 

 with spreading tubercles on the back ; terminal point rather prominent. Seeds black, 

 smooth and shining. ^' Linn. Sp. PL 1494 ! Bluff et Fingerh. Comp. Fl. Gei-m. (ed. 

 2), i. pt. 1. 446 ; Reich. FL Excurs. 577 ; Sm. Eng. FL iv. 260 ; Eng. Bot. 708 ; 

 Huds. FL Ang. (ed. 2). 444 ; WahL Suec. 661 ; FL Alt. iv. 311 ; Detkarding, Cons. 

 Megap. 24 ; Bab. Prim. FL Sarn. 81." 



On the sea-coast in many places. Annual. July to November. 



2. Atriplex marina, Linn. Root fibrous. Stem erect, two or three feet high, 

 smooth, angular ; branches numerous, alternate, erect. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, irre- 

 gularly toothed, sometimes nearly entire ; in luxuriant specimens the lower leaves are 

 nearly ovate, inciso-serrate : stalked. Spikes long, erect, clusters distant, of from .3 — 

 6 or 8 flowers. Enlarged calyx valves somewhat cordate-triangular, obtuse, toothed, 

 tuberculated on the back. Seeds smooth and shining, black, with a slight reddish 

 tinge, fuscous-red when immature. " Linn. Mantissa, 300 ; Bluff et Fingei-h. 446 ; 

 Reich. 577 ; Bethard. 24 ; Bab. Prim. 81. A. serrata, Huds. (ed. 2) 444. A. littora- 

 lis, /3. WahL 661 ; Sm. EngL FL iv. 260." 



On the sea-coast in many places. Annual. July to September. 



Mr. Babington remarks — " These two plants {littoralis and marina) differ from all 

 the following, by the total want of larger lobes at the base of their leaves. The latter 

 species has long been considered as only a variety of the fonner, although originally 

 distinguished by Linnaeus, and also adopted as a species by Hudson. Within the last 

 few years, they have been again distinguished upon the authority of the observations 

 of Detharding, as published in his Conspectus quoted above ; and I have much plea- 

 sure in recording, in confirmation of their distinctness, the valuable and independent 

 observations of Mr. Power." — p. 6. 



It is probable that in a living state the plants may differ more than 

 they do in description ; the chief points of distinction appear to be 

 that in A. littoralis the enlarged calyx-valves have " the apex in ge- 

 neral considerably projecting and acute, each in an advanced state 

 remarkably diverging from its fellow, and giving a peculiarly rough 

 aspect to the plant," the tubercles on the margins of the valves are not 

 coloured, and " the whole plant is more or less covered with a green- 

 ish-hoary mealiness : " while in A. marina the calyx-valves have "an 

 obtuse contour at the apex, which scarcely at all projects from the 

 outline of the valve, in many cases appearing like a mere continua- 

 tion of the marginal denticulalions : they are closed when mature : " 

 the points of the tubercles on the margins of the valves are generally 

 reddish, " and the whole fruit and the fruit-stalks have a peculiar yel- 

 lowish mealiness." 



3. Atriplex angustifolia, Sm. ! Stem erect or prostrate, nearly round, striated, 

 usually with long, simple, opposite branches; each branch and the main stem termi- 



