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more dr less united, flattened, bracts forming a sheath. Stamens 3-5, 

 inserted at base of perigonium. Ovary ovate, flattened. Styles 2, 

 setaceous. Utricle membranous, included. Seed vertical (in perfect 

 flowers horizontal), with crustaceous testa. Radicle pointing to base 

 or apex of ovary — Herbs or shrubs. 



''■ Floioers lyolygamoiis, the ^nstillate '^-parted, the perfect few ^ 5-parted, 



Annuals. 



1. A. nitciis, Rebent. Stem erect, angled, branching. Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, green at upper surface, silvery-scaly at lower, 

 cordate-triangular, sinuate-dentate, rarely entire, the upper triangular- 

 lanceolate, long-tapering. Racemes from upper axils and terminal, 

 long, loose, panicled; fruiting bracts nearly free, growing, membranous, 

 reticulate, entire, ovate, obtuse or acutish — Summer — Fields ; Da- 

 mascus. 



** Flowers mona'cioiis or rarely^ dimcious, the pistillate 2-fld or -parted j 

 the staminate ^-parted. 



t Annuals. 



\ Bracts parted to base. 



iS. A. littorale, L. .3 to 1, green, simple or branching. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, entire or denticulate. Fruiting bracts 

 rhombic-triangular, entire or 1-3-dentate at base, muricate or rarely 

 unarmed — September and October — Salt marshes and sands along 

 coast ; Tripoli ; Alexandretta. 



3. A, liastatum, L. .3 to 1, green or scurfy-canescent, 

 branching. Leaves triangular -hastate , truncate at dase, entire or sinuate- 

 dentate, the upper hastate-lanceolate to lanceolate and linear. Fruit- 

 ing bracts-triangular-deltoid, 1-3 dentate at base, unarmed or tubercled 

 — June to October — Roadsides and waste places: Tripoli. Perhaps 

 only a variety of the last. 



Var. saliiiiim, Wallr. More or less scurfy; leaves narrower, 

 hastate but entire ; calyx-lobes entire — Coast. 



4. A. Aiuaniini, Post. .3 to .8, green, minutely p)ruinose, 

 loosely panicled from base. Leaves sliort-petioled, alternate or oppo- 

 site, oblong to linear-lanceolate and linear^ entire. Flowers in clusters of 

 2-3, forming axillary and terminal, interrupted, nailed spikes; bracts 

 round ovate, .003 to .003 long, with a tooth on each side above tlic mid- 

 dle, sparingly and minutely pruiuose — September — Rocks l^clow 

 summit of Gesbel Dagh (Amanus). 



5. A. <limorp]iostcg[iiiiii, Kar. et Kir. ZurhcU. .2 to .3, 

 branching from neck, prostrate or ascending. Leaves alternate, heset 

 with crystalline papilli, especially at under surface, grey, petioled, 

 truncate at base or short-cuneate, ovate, obtuse, entire. Some of the 

 flowers arranged 2-3 in a cluster in the lower axils, with fruiting bracts 

 .006 long, stipitate, reflexed, membranous, cordate-orbicular, smooth at 

 back, repand-denticulate at margin, the others in short, terminal 

 spikes, the fruiting sepals much smaller, triangular-ovate, crested at 

 back — Spring — Sandy places ; southern deserts ; Syria. 



X X Bracts parted only to or above middle, 



6. A. Tataricum, L. Qatjf. .5 to 1, at length indurated, 

 usually scurfy-white ; stems erect or dilfusc, much branched. Leaves 



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