44 Botany. 



1314. OBIONE pedunculata, Moq. (ATRIPLEX, L.), 810, A. Muddy 

 salt marshes ; rare. 



1. This maritime sp. is occasionally found in inland 

 places, e.g. in a wheaten stubble field nr. Orpington, 

 '99. W.H.G. 



1319. SUAEDA maritima, Dum. (SEA-BLITE), 7 9, A. Salt marsh 

 and mud plant, ascending the Thames as far as 

 Plumstead. 



NOTE. To this order belongs the garden vegetable, spinach 

 (spinacea oleracea). The Mesembryanthemums, curious S. African 

 desert succulents belong to an allied order, the Aizoaceae, and the 

 beautiful woody climber Bougainvillea to the Nyctaginaceoe. The 

 latter is found in the Winter Gardens, Avery Hill, and different sp. 

 of the former in the grounds. 



N.O. 2. AMARANTACEM. 



(351) AMARANTHUS, L. 



1292. A. retroflexus, L. Casual. 1. Tripcock Ness, '94. Dod. 

 A. blitum, L. Casual. 1. Bromley. Cole. 

 A. albus, L. Casual (N. Am.) L Tripcock Ness, '94. Dod. 



N.O. 3. PORTULACACEM. 



266. CLAYTONIA perfoliata, Donn. A N.Am. alien, naturalised in 



this country in wet sandy places. 



1. Greenwich Park, '01. A.D.W. 



2. Avery Hill, '06. L.C.C. 



3. Roadside bank nr. Hayes Railway Stn., '04. W.H.G. 



4. Hayes Common in a dry ditch, '04. W.H.G. 



267. MONTIA fontana, L. (48), A. Wet sandy places. 



1. Dartford Heath. Reeves. 



2. Hayes Common, '05. F.M.R. 



a. Old records from Blackheath, Charlton, Chislehurst 

 (1793, a 1st record), and Keston Common ('36). 



N.O. 4. CARYOPHYLLACE&. 



SUB-ORDER I. SILENOIDE^E. Fls. of a higher type, the gamo- 

 sepalous calyx forming a tube which renders the 

 honey accessible only to long-tongued insects (moths, 

 butterflies, humble bees). 



(60) DIANTHUS, L. (PiNK). 



