I8d COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



smooth. Tie axillary head-like clusters bright red in fruit, 

 and resembling strawberries. Dry soil, margins of woods, 

 etc. 



9. C. ru'bPUm, L. (Blitum maritimum, Nutt.) (COAST 

 ELITE.) Stem angled, much-branched. Leaves thickish, 

 acuminate, the upper linear-lanceolate. Flower-clusters 

 scattered in axillary leafy spikes. Stamen 1. N.W., in 

 saline soil. 



2. MO\OLEPIS, Schrad. 



M. ehenopodioi'des, Moq. Branched from the base. 

 Leaves lanceolate-hastate or sometimes narrowly spathu- 

 late, entire or sparingly sinuate-toothed. Flower-clusters 

 often reddish. N.W. 



3. CYCLOLO'MA, Moquln. WINGED PIGWEED. 

 C. platyphyTlum, Moq. Diffuse, 6-15 inches high, light- 

 green or sometimes purple. S. W. Ontario. 

 4. AT'RIPLEX, Tourn. ORACHE. 



1. A. pat'ulum, L. Erect or diffuse, scurfy, green or 

 rather hoary. Leaves varying from triangular or halberd- 

 shaped to lance-linear, petioled. 



Var. hasta'tum, Gray, has at least the lower leaves 

 broadly triangular-hastate, often toothed. Atl. Prov. and 

 N.W. 



Var. littora'le, Gray, is slender, with leaves linear- 

 lanceolate to linear. Waste places. 



2. A. Nuttal'lii, Watson. A shrubby densely-appressed- 

 scurfy perennial, with oblong-spathulate to narrowly ob- 

 lanceolate entire leaves. N.W. only. 



5. CORISPER'JMinn, Ant. Juss. BUG-SEED. 

 C. hyssopifo'lium, L. Somewhat hairy when young, 

 pale. Stamens 1 or 2. Styles 2. Fruit oval, flat. Sandy 

 beaches, western and south-western Ontario, and N.W. 



6. S ILU'OK M I, Tourn. GLASSWOKT. SAMPHIRE. 

 1. S. herba'cea, L. (SAMPHIRE.) Flowers perfect, in 

 threes, embedded in hollows on the thickened upper joints, 



