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Birchy Cove, western Newfoundland, Fernald and Wiegand S319 (Gr); lower St. Law- 

 rence River, August 13, 1880, Pringle (US); Black Lake, Quebec, Fernald and Jackson 

 12084 (Gr); Little Harbor, New Hampshire, September 19, 1901, Williams (Gr); eastern 

 North Carolina, July, 1885, McCarthy (US); Mobile, Alabama, June 4, 1893, Mohr (US); 

 Oxford, New York, August 13, 1884, Conille (US); Toledo, Ohio, Sanford 2355 (US); 

 Joliet, Illinois, Skeels 634 (US); Madison, Wisconsin, August, 1887, Holzinger (US); 

 North Dakota, September 14, 1901, Lunnell (Gr); Fisher's Ranch, Wyoming, Nelson 

 5323 (UC); Bay Farm Island, Alameda, California, Jepson 5682 (Gr); near Victoria, 

 British Columbia, Macoun 1857 (Gr, US). 



Atriplex palula glabriuscula, A. p. litoralis, 

 and A. p. spicata. a to d, A. p. glabriuscula, 

 from New Brunswick (.Blake 5664, Gr): o, 6, 

 leaves; c, fruiting branch; d, fruiting bract, e 

 to h, A. p. litoralis, from Durham County, 

 England (7182 UC), the bracts after Sow- 

 erby (Eng. Bot pi 1200): e. f, leaves; g, h. 

 fruiting bracts, i to I, A. p. spicata, from 

 Main Prairie. California (205332 UC): i. j. 

 leaves; k, I, fruiting bracts. All leaves X 1; 

 bracts X 2. 



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2d. Atriplex patula litoralis (Linnaeus). — Plant erect, the branches ascending, the 

 lower ones from a decumbent base; leaves long but narrow, petioled; blade lanceolate to 

 linear, attenuate to the base, never hastate, entire, as in the original description, undu- 

 late or sometimes acutely repand-dentate; glomerules in long, dense, rarely interrupted 

 naked paniculate spikes and in the upper axils; fruiting bracts ovate or rhombic, 3 to 4 

 mm. long, narrowed at the base, the margins sharply denticulate, the face tubercled 

 (fig. 30, e to h). {A. litoralis Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1054, 1753.) Northeast coast from Nova 

 Scotia to New Hampshire and inland in Ontario, Ohio, etc. ; common in Europe. Type 

 locality, Europe. Collections: Portage Island, Northumberland County, New Bruns- 

 wick, Blake 5680 (Gr) ; Truro, Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Fernald and Wiegand 

 4266 (Gr); North Berwick, Maine, September, 1893, Farlin (Gr); Little Harbor, New 

 Hampshire, September 19, 1901, Williams (Gr); near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 

 18, 1869, Porter (Gr); Benton County, Indiana, Deam 21542 (Gr); Kingston, Ontario, 

 September 1, 1897, Fowler, (Gr). 



2e. Atriplex patula spicata (Watson). — Plant erect, not tall, the branches rather 

 rigidly ascending; leaves medium-sized, petioled, the upper nearly sessile; blades triangu- 

 lar to ovate, usually rhombic, typically broad at base but shortly narrowed to the petiole, 

 coarsely and irregularly sinuate-dentate; glomerules in very dense spikes terminating the 

 branches; fruiting bracts ovate-oblong, about 3 mm. long, the margins entire, the face 

 not appendaged but strongly ribbed or furrowed (fig. 30, i io I). {A. spicata Watson, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 108, 1874.) Middle western California. Type locality, San Joaquin 

 Valley, California, according to Watson, but Livermore Pass, west side of San Joaquin 

 Valley, according to the labels and field book. Collections (all in California) : Hollister, 



