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C. urbicum : annual ; stems erect, slightly branched, 1-2 

 feet high, not mealy ; leaves long-stalked, triangular, sinu- 

 ately- toothed ; flower-clusters in erect, nearly leafless, com- 

 pound spikes. Waste places. Fl. August. 



C. murale : annual ; stems erect or decumbent, much 

 branched, a foot high ; leaves rhomboid, ovate, coarsely- 

 toothed ; flowers chiefly axillary, in branched, spreading, leaf- 

 less cymes. Waste places. Fl. August, September. 



** Perianth not covering the seed -like fruit. 



C. rubrum : annual ; stems erect, a foot high ; leaves rhom- 

 boid, irregularly sinuate-toothed ; flowers in erect, compound, 

 dense leafy spikes, mostly with only 2-3 segments to the peri- 

 anth, the seed erect, not horizontal. Waste places, especially 

 near the sea. Fl. August and September. 



C. Bonus-Henrieus : stems a foot high, scarcely branched ; 

 leaves broadly triangular, sinuate or slightly toothed ; flowers 

 numerous, in clustered spikes, forming a narrow terminal pa- 

 nicle. Good King Henry. Waste ground near villages and 

 dwellings. Fl. May to August. 



(253) Atriplex. ORACHE. 



A. patula : annual ; stems erect or prostrate, more or less 

 mealy-white ; leaves stalked, usually hastate, sometimes op- 

 posite, the upper ones narrow, entire; flowers clustered in 

 slender spikes, forming narrow, leafy, terminal panicles ; seg- 

 ments of the fruiting perianth ovate or rhomboidal, pointed, 

 often toothed at the edge and warted or muricate on the back. 

 Waste places and sea-coasts. Fl. June to September. 



Mr. Bentham places as varieties the four following plants 

 often distinguished as species : 



A. deltoidea, erect or spreading ; lower leaves broadly tri- 



