CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY) 



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pointed, entire or sparingly wavy-toothed, the lower ones with 

 a pointed lobe on each side near the base and with slender petioles ; 

 the upper ones becoming nearly linear and sessile. Leaves and 

 stem often scurfy-mealy, especially near the top. Flowers in 



FIG. 70. Spreading Orache 

 (Atriplex patula). X J. 



FIG. 71. Halberd- 

 leaved Orache (Atri- 

 plex patula, var. 

 hastata). X J. 



terminal, interrupted, panicled spikes, and also in small clusters 

 in the upper axils, the staminate and pistillate flowers separate or 

 both kinds together ; the staminate flower without bracts, the calyx 

 three- to five-parted with as many stamens ; fertile flower a naked 

 pistil with two-parted style, placed between two fleshy, triangular 



