290 



Common on the sea-coast in rocky, gravelly, or muddy situations. 

 Annual. July to September. 



Apparently the most variable of the genus, but when once known 

 easily distinguishable from all the other species. It often approaches 

 Atr. patula and angustifolia in the form of the leaves and the scattered 

 clusters of flowers, and Atr. laciniata in the form of its fruit ; from all 

 these the very large lobes of the leaves, the form and dentate margins 

 of the calyx, and the scattered flowers will serve to distinguish it. 



10. Atriplex laciniata^ Linn. ! Whole plant covered with whitish meal. Stems 

 diffuse, prostrate, branches spreading. Leaves irregular in outline, between triangu- 

 lar and rhomboidal, irregularly toothed and lobed, hoary beneath. Clusters of flowers 

 small, mostly collected into leafless terminal spikes, a few only being seated in the ax- 

 ils of the upper leaves. Calyx of the fruit I'homboidal, with each lateral angle broadly 

 truncate ; the valves vary in breadth, but retain the general form, three-ribbed on the 

 back, lateral ribs sometimes tuberculated towards the extremity. Seeds rough and 

 opaque. " Linn. 1494 ; Sm. Eng. Bot. 165 ; Eng. Fl. iv. 257 ; Wahl. 661 ; Koch, 611 ; 

 Bluff et Fingerh. 414 ; FL Alt. 313 ; Bab. Prim. 84 ; Sadl. FL Pesth. 476." 



Common on the sea-coast. Annual. July to September. 



11. Halimus, Wallr.* Flowers monoecious : female perigone compressed, leaves 

 two, tridentate, connate to the apex : stigmas two : pericarp very slender, when ma- 

 ture adhering to the tube of the perigone : seed vertical, pendulous by an elongated 

 funiculus, ascending to the apex ; testa membranaceous ; radicle terminal, porrected. 

 " Walk. Sched. Crit. 117; ' Wahl. Act. UpsaL viii. p. 228, 254, t. 5, f. 2;' Fl. Suec. 

 662 ; Nees ah Esenbeck Gen. PL Gei-m. Icon. {Monochlam.) 64." 



" In these plants the perigone is contracted below into a peduncle, which in H. pe- 

 dunculatus is elongate, and although short, is still present in H. portulacoides." — ^p. 4. 



1. Halimus pedunculatus, Wallr. Stem herbaceous, erect, flexuose, shortly branch- 

 ed. Leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, contracted at the base into a short petiole, 

 upper ones of the same form but narrower. Flowers scattered, in a lax terminal spike, 

 sessile ; as the fruit ripens the base of the calyx becomes lengthened into a long slen- 

 der peduncle, the upper part taking an inversely wedge-shaped form, with two obtuse 

 lobes and an acute intermediate point. " Wallr. Sched. Crit. 117; Reich. 576; Bluff 

 et Fingerh. 442 ; Koch, 609. Atriplex pedunculata, Linn. 1675 ! Sm. Eng. Bot. 232 ; 

 Eng. FL iv. 261." 



On the sea-coast, very rare. Annual. August and September. 



Mr. Babington mentions the variations in length to which the pe- 

 duncle appears subject ; it being, in his English specimen from Yar- 

 mouth, nearly an inch long, while in a German specimen it scarcely 



*This genus was founded by Wallroth in his 'Schedulse Criticse,' 117, for the 

 reception of Atriplex pedunculatus, Linn.; and he observes — " Perhaps Atr. portula- 

 coides may also belong to this genus ; I have not seen the fruit.'' 



