Pl.ex.mon. 16. CHENOPODEiE, 43. Atriplex. 281 



Atriplex maritiraa, RaiiSyn. 152,8. 

 Atriplex marina, Ger. e?'n. 325, 4. 

 Atriplex marina repens, Park. 758. 

 " Atriplex laciniata, Li7i. S. P. 1494. 

 Jagged sea- or ache. 



Sea-shores ; annual ; July. 



liooi fibrous ; sie7n spreading ; leaves unequally toothed, 

 sinuated ; hermaphrodite flntvers spiked, conglomerate, 

 small, axillary, pedicelled, crowded ; fruit 3-ribbed, toothed. 



/3. truncata. heaves angular, much sinuated. 



Atriplex maritima nostras, procerior, foliis angulosis, incanis ad« 

 modiim sinuatis, Dillen in Raii Syn. 152, 6. ^ 



3. Atriplex paiula. Spreading orache. 



Stem herbaceous, spreading; leaves deltoid, lanceolate, 

 rather hastate ; fruit thorny on the disc. 



Atriplex sjlvestris, folio hastato sive deltoide, Raii Syn, 151, 1. 

 Atriplex sylvestris vulgaris, Ger. em. 326, 5. 

 Atriplex patula, Lin. S. P. 1494. 

 Atriplex hastata, Huds. Fl.^ng.4i3. 

 Delt sea-orache. Commoh wild orach. 



Ruins and common fields ; annual ; July and August. 



Root fibrous ; stem much branched, upright ; leaves al- 

 ternate ; lower leaves deltoid ; upper slender, lanceolate ; 

 racemes leafy; fruit deltoid, rhomboid; seed dotted. — Herb 

 used as a pot-herb. 



^. Stem procumbent, reddish ; leaves less lioary. 



Atriplex maritima perennis folio deltoide sen triangulari minus incano, 

 DiUen in. Raii Syii. 152, 5. 



y. aurita. Stem procumbent, reddish ; leaves fleshy, 

 eared at bottom, scarcely toothed, reddish. 



Atriplex maritima ad foliorum basin auriculata procumbenSj et iie vix 

 sinuata, Dillen in Raii Syn. 152, 7. 



Sandy sea-shores. 



4. Atriplex angust folia. Narrow-leaf orache. 



Stem herbaceous; Zeai'e^ lanceolate, diverging, not cut ; 

 lower leaves somewhat hastate ; fruit hastate, smoothish. 



Atriplex sjlvestris angustifolia, Raii Syn. 151, 2; Ger. em. 326, 7; 

 Park. 748. 



Atriplex patula, Huds. Fl. Angl. 443. 

 Atriplex angustifolia, Smith Fl. Brit. 1092. 

 Spear orache. 



Fields and rains; annual; June to August. 



Petioles short ; leaves laHceolate, horizontal ; lowermost 

 broad, sometimes hastate ; apex of the fruit long, acute ; 

 edge not cut. — Seeds useful in dysentery, emetic. 



