POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. 637 



edges, covered with a hoary powder, efpecially 

 on the under fide, but not {o white and fijvery 

 as the preceding. The flowers grow in fliort 

 erc<5l clufters at the top of the ftalks. The fe- 

 male valves are triangular, whitifh, a little roucrh 

 on the fides, but not To large as in the forcgoino-. 



ATRIPLEX caule herbaceo patulo, foliis fiibdel- 

 toideo-lanccolatis, calycibus feminum difco den- 

 tatis. Sp.pL 1494. (Ger, m. 326./. 7. Moris, 

 biji. p. 607. /. 5. /. 32./. 15. Pet. herb, /. 7. /, 



5-) 



Spreading Spear Orach. Anglis. 



In cultivated grounds, and wade places frequent. 

 O.VllI.IX. 



The ftalk is furrow'd, the branches long, and 

 widely divaricated, almoft at right angles with 

 the ftalk, and often deprefled to the ground. 

 The leaves are fucculent, green, flightly fprinkled 

 with a mealy powder underneath ; the lower 

 ones haftate, but one of the auricles often want- 

 ing i the upper ones entire and linear-lanceolate. 

 The flowers grow in erecl, flender fpikes ; the 

 males are generally quadrifid, and have only four 

 fiamlna j the valves of the females are dented, 

 and have their fides commonly a little rough 

 and tuberculous. 



ATRIPLEX caule herbaceo crcfto, foliis linaari- 

 bus fcrratis, Lin, Mantifs. p. 3«o. A, ferrata, 



Hudf. 



