340 CHENOPODIACEJE. [Atriplex. 



1,000 ft. in N. England. — A. anyustifo'lia, Sm. ; is a weak procumbent state 

 with branches divaricate, leaves subentire, spikes long lax panicled, sepals 

 usually smooth. 



Sub-sp. A. hasta'ta, L. ; erect or decumbent, dark green, mealy, lower leaves 

 opposite hastate-deltoid with horizontal cusps subacute entire or toothed, 

 upper lanceolate, spikes simple or panicled interrupted leafy at the base, 

 sepals deltoid united at the base only, seeds dimorphic, larger brown rough, 

 smaller black smooth. A. pat'ula, Sm.; A. Smith' 'ii, Sy me. Common, ex- 

 tending to India; ascends to 1,300 ft. in N. England. — A. triangularis, 

 Willd. {A. prostra'ta and A. deltoide' a, Bab.), is a var. with upper leaves 

 hastate, spikes dense, terminal of the panicle short, sepals truncate but 

 little longer than the utricle, seeds mostly small. 



Sub-sp. A. Babingto'nii, Woods ; usually pale and very mealy, branches 

 spreading ascending, leaves mostly opposite deltoid or rhombic-ovate entire 

 or sinuate- toothed, upper usually similar, clusters of flowers remote, spikes 

 simple lax leafy, sepals connate at the often hardened base or united 

 nearly to the middle, seeds all vertical large pale rather rough. A . ro'sea, 

 Bab., not L. Sea-shores, abundant. — Very variable; as green as sub-sp. 

 hasta'ta, or almost as white as A. laeinia'ta, from which the striped stems 

 distinguish it. — N. to Shetland ; Ireland ; Channel Islands. 



2. A. littora'lis, L. ; meal} 7 , stem erect striped, branches ascending, 

 leaves linear- or elliptic-oblong usually quite entire upper very narrow, 

 fern, sepals rhombic or deltoid toothed tubercled not hardened. 



Salt and brackish marshes, banks, &c, from Perth to Dorset and Kent (excl. 

 "W. Scotland) ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. July-Sept. — Best distinguished 

 from,' -4. pat'ula by the narrower usually quite entire leaves, which are never 

 hastate and hardly ever rhombic. Clusters of flowers in slender terminal 

 spikes. Seeds nearly smooth, shining, all vertical. — Distrib. Of A 

 patula. 



A. mari'na, L. (A. serra'ta, Huds.), is a var. with leaves serrate or lobed, tips 

 of fruiting sepals appressed. 



3. A, laeinia'ta, L. ; clothed with persistent silvery scales, stem not 

 striped reddish, lower leaves opposite rhombic-ovate, upper similar or 

 hastate, floral sessile, fern, sepals connate at the swollen hardened base. 

 A. arcna'ria, Woods, not Nut tall ; A. farino'sa, Dumort. 



Sandy sea-coasts, from Sutherland southd. ; Ireland ; Channel Islands ; fl. 

 July-Oct. — Silvery-white all over. Stem angled, branched from the base ; 

 branches 4-10 in., diffuse, stout or slender. Leaves 1-1§ in., petiole short, 

 acute or obtuse, base cuneate, subentire or irregularly acutely or obtusely 

 lobed toothed or serrate. Male flowers in short dense subpanicled spikes, 

 female axillary with a few males intermixed. Fruiting sepals £-§ in. diam., 

 united to the middle, often broader than long, rhombic, acute or acuminate, 

 entire lobed or toothed ; disk often promiuently veined or wrinkled, rarely 

 tubercled. Seed large, £ in. diam., much compressed, rough, red-brown. — 

 Distrib. W. Europe, Norway to France. 



Sub-gen. 2. Obi'one, Gcertn. (gen.). Annual or perennial. Flowers 

 monoecious or dioecious. Pericarp adherent to the cup-shaped perianth. 

 Testa coriaceous or crustaceous ; radicle superior. Hal'imus, Wall roth. 



