Dicotyledons 8 r 



much hesitation, ventured to raise to the rank 

 of a species. I call it Atriplex glabriuscula. 



Stems very long (sometimes three feet or 

 more), prostrate, entangled, round, spirally 

 striated ; lower branches mostly opposite, 

 upper alternate, much swollen at their inser- 

 tion; lower leaves hastate, the lobes ascending, 

 sinuate-dentate, obtuse ; upper leaves lanceo- 

 late, entire, obtuse, all fleshy . . . ; flowers 

 four to six together in the axils of the upper 

 leaves ; enlarged calyces rotundate - hastate, 

 slightly waved or toothed, . . . tubercles on 

 the back ; seed subreniform, compressed, 

 large, but not half the size of the enlarged 

 sepals. 



Differs principally from A. rosea in being far 

 less mealy ; stems round, upper leaves invari- 

 ably lanceolate entire lobes of the lower 

 leaves ascending, and by the sepals being 

 rounded and obtuse. 



Notwithstanding these differences it may 

 be only a variety of A. rosea, but the limits 

 of species in this genus are very difficult to 

 determine. 



Plentiful on stony beaches at Baltasound, 

 Unst, and probably elsewhere. Fruit (not 

 quite mature) end of September." 



