84 MIDDLESEX FLORA. 



cately-subdichotomous, loose, leafless; fruiting calyx not closed, 

 dentate-carinate, larger than the obtusish, channeled, smooth and 

 somewhat shining seed." DC. Prodr. XIII, 2, 76. 



C. GLAUCUM, L. OAK-LEAVED GOOSEFOOT. 



Lowell, Soraerville, Cambridge, et al. ; abundant in waste places. 

 June-Aug. Nat. from Eu. 



C. rubrum. (Blitum maritimum, Nutt., Man.) COAST BLITE. 

 Salt marshes, not uncommon. July-Aug. 



C. capitatum, Wats. (Blitum capitatum, L., Man.) STRAWBERRY 

 BLITE. 

 Lowell, near woollen mills (Dr. C. W. Swan). June. Adv. from 



farther West. 



C. virgatum, Wats. 



Cambridge, two plants, 1885 (Walter Deane ; specimen in herb. of). 

 Adv. from Eu. 



"Leaves oblong-triangular, somewhat hastate, deeply dentate, 

 glomerules all axillary ; fruiting calyx berry-like ; seeds with ob- 

 tuse or sometimes channeled margin." Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 



ATRIPLEX, Tourn. 



A. patula, L., var. hastata, Gray. 

 Salt marshes, common. July-Sept. 



A. patula, L., var. littoralis, Gray. 

 Salt marshes, less common than the preceding. July-Sept. 



A. arenaria, Nutt. 

 Cambridge (C. E. Perkins). Aug.-Sept. 



A. bracteosa, Wats. 



N. Chelmsford, wool-waste (Rev. W. P. Alcott). Adv. from Cal. 

 " Rather stout, suberect with spreading, flexuous branches, 2 or 3 

 feet high, mealy; leaves thin, sessile, lanceolate, very acute or 

 acuminate, ^ to 1 inch long, acutely sinuate-dentate or the upper- 

 most entire ; staminate flowers in dense clusters in a naked termi- 

 nal simple or compound spike ; calyx deeply 5-clef t ; fruiting bracts 

 in small axillary clusters, cuneate-orbicular, 1 to 1% lines broad, 

 the upper rounded margin irregularly gash-toothed ; the sides often 

 somewhat muricate ; seed less than half a line broad." Bot. Cal. 



SALICORNIA, Tourn. 



S. herbacea, L. SAMPHIRE. 



Salt marshes, very common. Aug.-Oct. 

 S. mucronata, Bigel. (S. Virginica, L., Man.) 



Salt marshes, rather common. Sept.-Oct. 



