8 cxvu. CHENOPODIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Atriplex. 



to me to differ in its much larger orbicular sinuate thin leaves, and rhombic fruiting- 

 bracts. which are corky throughout, united to the middle, and perfectly smooth. 

 This is Moquin's type of Griffithii, so named by himself. Another plant of Griffith 

 also numbered 1751 has very large orbicular fruiting-bracts nearly in. diam., with 

 a woody veined disk, the thin margins united all round (like an Alyssum fruit). 

 As for Moquin's description, it agrees with neither of these plants, and it is difficult to 

 account for this, and for his suggestion that A. Griffithii may be a var. of the Aus- 

 tralian A. Lindleyi. 



6. EUROTXA, Adeus. 



Herbs or imdershrubs, woolly or tomentose. Leaves small, alternate, 

 entire. Flowers minute, 1 -sexual. MALE fl. spicate, ebracteate. Sepals 4, 

 obovate, obtuse. Stamens 4, filaments filiform. FEM. fl. axillary, 2- 

 bracteate; bracts conduplicate, connate with free lips, at length closing 

 over the utricle, becoming coriaceous, veined, villous, 2- beaked, and at length 

 splitting into 4 valves. Perianth 0. Utricle ellipsoid, compressed, mem- 

 branous ; stigmas 2, filiform. Seed sessile, free, obovoid, beaked below, 

 testa membranous, albumen floury ; embryo horseshoe-shaped. 



E. ceratoides, C. A. Meyer in Led. Fl. Alt. iv. 239; shrubby, 

 hoary with stellate hairs, leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate obtuse floral 

 narrower, fruiting bracts urceolate silkily villous with long reddish hairs. 

 Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 917; Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii."2. 120. Axyris 

 ceratoides, Linn. Sjo. PI. Achyranthes papposa, Jacq. Ic. Ear. t. 189. 

 A. Moorcroftiana, Brown in Wall. Cat. 6950; Moq. I', c. 117. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; in the drier regions from Kunawur westward, and in 

 WESTEBN TIBET, alt. 8-14,000 ft., Moorcroft, &c. DISTKIB. Central Europe 

 from Spain eastward, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia, N.W. 

 America. 



A bush, 2-4 ft. high, stunted and dwarf at high and dry elevations ; branches 

 strict, slender, leafy, glabrons or tomentose. Leaves |-1 in., rarely ovate or elliptic, 

 margin often recurved ; petiole very short ; upper sessile. Fruiting-bracts crowded 

 along the upper parts of the branches conspicuous for their long silky red-brown 

 hairs ^ in. long. 



7. AXVRIS, Linn. 



Annual, stellately hairy or glabrate herbs. Leaves small, alternate, 

 entire. Flowers minute, monoecious, ebracteate. MALE fl. in terminal 

 clusters with 3-5 hyaline sepals, often irregularly placed, and 2-5 slender 

 stamens. FEM. fl. axillary, solitary or mixed with the males. Sepals 3-4, 

 unequal, at length scarious. Utricle membranous, embraced by the sepals, 

 obovoid, compressed or spherical, tip shortly winged crested or 2-auricled, 

 stigmas capillary very long. Seed erect, obovoid, adhering to the utricle, 

 'testa membranous marked with concentric lines, albumen granular ; embryo 

 horseshoe-shaped. Species 5 or 6, N. and Central Asia, N.W. America. 



A. amaranthoides, Linn. Sp. PI. 979; erect, branched from 

 base, leaves ovate or oblong obtuse or acute. Moq. In DC. Prodr. xiii 

 2. 116; Lamk JSncycl. t. 753; SchJcuhr Handl. 285". JL hybrida, Linn. ; 

 Moq. I. c. ; bchkuhr I. c. 



w frmn Lahul to Kumaon, alt. 



, and irf WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-14,000 ft., Jacquemont, Straciey $ 

 Thomson > &C.-DISTBIB. Turkestan, Soongaria, the Altai, Siberia, 



Very variable in size, 4-10 in. high; stem stout or slender. Leaves i-li in., 



