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wood is hard, beautifully veined, much valued for cabinet-maker's 

 work, and was formerly still more highly prized for making into 

 bows and on that account is said to have been planted so fre- 

 quently by our ancestors in churchyards. 



XXIII. POLYGAMIA. 



1. MONCECIA. 



1. ATRIPLEX. Perfect fl. Pi7z'a?z/A single, 5 -partite, inferior. 

 Stam. 5. Style bipartite. Fruit depressed, 1 -seeded, covered 

 by the cal. 



' Pistilliferous fl. Perianth single, 2-partite. Stam. 0. 

 The rest as in the perfect fl. 





1. MONCECIA. 



1. ATRIPLEX. 



1. A. portulacoides (shrubby Or ache or Sea Pur slam}, stem 

 shrubby, leaves obovato-lanceolate entire silvery white. 

 ligkif.p.635. E. B. t.2Ql. 



HAB. Sea shore, in muddy places. Near Hellensburgh, Hopk. JF7, 



Aug. T; . 

 One foot to two feet or more high, with small yellowish flowers, in 



axillary racemes. 



2. A. laciniata (frosted Sea Orache), stem herbaceous diffuse, 

 leaves ovato-deltoid dentato -sinuate very mealy beneath. 

 Light f. p. 626. E. B.I. 165. 



HAB. Sea shores, not uncommon. Fl. Aug. 0. 

 Whole plant hoary. Flowers axillary, 2 3 together. 



3. A. patula (spreading Halberd-leaved Orache), stem herba- 

 ceous spreading, leaves triangular hastate glabrous above, 

 irregularly toothed the upper ones entire, perianth of the fruit 

 more or less tuberculated at the sides. Light f. p. 636 (A. pa- 

 tula). E. B. t. 936. 



HAB. Cultivated ground and waste places, frequent. Fl. July. 0. 

 Stems straggling; branches long, striated. Flowers in small clusters 

 upon long interrupted axillary spikes. 



4. A. angustifolia (spreading narrow-leaved Or ache], ie stem 

 herbaceous spreading, leaves lanceolate entire the lower ones 

 somewhat hastate, cal, of the fruit hastate slightly tuberculated 

 at the sides." Sm. Ligfitf.p. 637 (A. patula). E. B. I. 1774. 



HAB. Waste places, dunghills, &c. Fl. July. O . 



This seems to be but a narrow-leaved var. of the preceding. 



5. A. littoralis (grass -leaved Sea- Or ache), stem herbaceous 

 erect, leaves all linear entire or toothed, perianth of the fruit 



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