^36 POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. 



hcinictai. ATRIPLEX caiile hcrbaceo, foUis deltoidibus 

 dfntatis, fubtus argenteis. Sp. pi. 1494. {Ger, 

 em, -^zs.f. 4- P^i- herb. t. 7./. 3. Moris, hijl.f 

 5. /. 32./. 17. melt or.) 



Frofted or Leprous Sea Orache. Anglis. 



Upon the fca lliores not uncommon. O. VIII. 



The whole plant is of a grey hoary colour, the 

 branches proilrate, or at leaft reclining. The 

 leaves grow alternate, and arc covered with a 

 kind of filvery Icalcs. They arc not ftrittly 

 deltoid or triangular, becaufc the bafe, where 

 the footflalk is inferted, is extended downwards. 

 The edges have a few wide or diftant dents. 

 The hermaphrodite flowers grow at the fummits 

 of the ftalks, in lelTile clufters, intermixed with 

 leaves. The females arc axillary j the leaves 

 of the calyx very large, nearly triangular, com- 

 rjionly with five dents on the edges, and generally 

 befet with prominent tubercles on the fides near 

 their bale. 



hafsta 2 ATRIPLEX caule hcrbaceo, valvulis fcmincis 

 magnis dthoid.bus finuatis. Sp pi. J494. {Moris, 

 hift p. f'oy.f 5. /. 32./. 14. Pet. herb. t. 7./. 1. 

 ^ I.) 



Drk Crach. Anglis. 



In walk places about towns and villages, cfpecially 

 near the fl"a fhores. G. VIII. IX, 



Tie llalk is ereft and angular. The leaves dcl- 

 toM, or lialbcrt-l'kap'd, with a few dents on the 



edges. 



