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spreading, rose-coloured ; leaves broadly triangular and coarsely 

 toothed. Male flowers in dense spikes ; female sessile and 

 axillary. Teignmouth sands. Exmouth. A. arenaria, Bab. ; 

 A. rosea, Benth. (E. B. t. 165.) A. vn.-ix. 



3. A. pa tula (spreading halberd-leaved O.) In salt-marshes 

 and by the seaside. Plant erect or procumbent ; leaves stalked ; 

 the lower ones broadly triangular, coarsely and irregularly 

 toothed ; uppermost lanceolate and entire. Flowers clustered 

 in slender spikes, in narrow, leafy, terminal panicles. Paignton 

 sands. Goodrington sands. E. B. t. 936 ; A. hastata, Bab. ; 

 A. angusiifolia, E. B. t. 1774, with lanceolate lower leaves and 

 linear upper ones. Paignton. A, deltoidea, E. B. S. t. 2860, with 

 lower leaves halberd-shaped and unequally toothed. Meadfoot, 

 Mr. G. E. Parker. These two last Bentham classes as varying 

 forms of A. patula. A. YI.-X. 



TRIBE III. SALICOKNE.E. 

 SAIiXCORNZA. GLASSWOET. 



S. herbacea (jointed Glasswort.) On the seashore and 

 muddy salt-marshes. A leafless plant, with a jointed herbaceous 

 stem, erect and branched, from 3 to 12 inches high ; joints com- 

 pressed, thickening upwards and hollowed out on each side. 

 Flowers sessile, 3 at the base of each joint of the terminal spikes. 

 Goodrington Marsh. (E. B. t. 415. With the stem procumbent, 

 S. procumlens, E. B. t. 2475.) A. Yin. ix. 



SUBORD. II. SPIROLOBEJE. 



TRIBE IV. SILEDE.E. 

 SU-SEDA. SEA-BLITE. 



1. S. fruticosa (shrubby Sea-Blite.) On the seacoast, rare. 

 Stem from 2 to 3 feet high, shrubby, with numerous upright 

 leafy branches ; leaves succulent, blunt, and semi-cylindrical. 

 Flowers very small, solitary and sessile, green. Budleigh Salter- 

 ton, Miss A. Griffiths. (E. B. t, 635.) P. vn. vm. 



2. S. maritima (annual S.} On the seashore, frequent. A 

 much smaller plant than the last. Stem erect or procumbent, 

 herbaceous, much branched and leafy ; leaves semi-cylindrical, 

 pointed, smooth, and succulent. Flowers sessile, green, with a 



