1298 ATRIPLEX. [ CLASS XXIII, ONDER 1, 
perianth single, of two valves, compressed, becoming larger after 
flowering, and covering the seed. Style bifid. Mruit an urtiele, 
with a single vertical seed, albuminous, its testa crustaceous, 
attached by a lateral hilum near the base, or to the middle of the 
side, by means of an elongated funiculus. Pericarp membra- 
nous, free.—Name from ~, not; and tex$s, to nourish (?) 
]. A. erec'ta, Huds. (Fig. 1557) Upright Spear-leaved Orache. 
Stem herbaceous, mostly erect, with ascending branches; lower 
leaves ovate oblong, with two ascending lobes, from a wedge-shaped 
base, and irregularly toothed, the upper ones lanceolate, entire ; 
flowers in close spikes, branched; perianth of the fruit rhomboidal, 
acute, toothed, more or less muricated at the back, and scarcely 
longer than the fruit. 
English Botany, t. 2223.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 259.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vy. i. p. 879.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 217. 
Stem mostly erect, ;with numerous upright or ascending branches, 
leafy. Leaves alternate, on footstalks, the lower ones ovate oblong, 
with an ascending lobe on each side, from a wedge-shaped base, and 
more or less irregularly and deeply toothed, the upper leaves gra- 
dually becoming narrower, linear lanceolate, and entire, all slightly 
powdery or scaly. Inflorescence a terminal many flowered dense 
branched spike. Perianth of the fruit two rhomboidal acute valves, 
toothed on the margin, and more or less muricated at the back a 
little longer than the seeds. Seeds compressed, smooth, shining, 
black. 
Habitat.—Waste and cultivated land; not unfrequent. 
Annual; flowering in August. 
2. A. prostra'ta, (Bouch ?) (Fig. 1558.) Prostrate Orache. Stem 
procumbent, with procumbent spreading branches; leaves opposite, 
the lower ones triangular hastate, with two horizontally spreading 
lobes at the base, entire, or slightly toothed, the intermediate ones 
with two ascending lobes, from a wedge-shaped base, and the upper 
ones small, entire, lanceolate ; flowers in interrupted slightly branched 
spikes ; the perianth of the fruit cordate, triangular, entire, or slightly 
toothed, scarcely longer than the fruit. 
Babington’s Manual of British Botany, p. 252.—<A. oppositifolia, 
Koch. ‘ 
Stem and branches procumbent, spreading, from six to twelve 
or eighteen inches long. eaves opposite and alternate, on rather 
long footstalks, the lower ones triangular, hastate, with its lobes hori- 
zontally, spreading, some are entire, others toothed, the intermediate 
leaves have the lobes smaller, more acute, and ascending, while the 
upper ones are small, entire, and lanceolate, all are of a fleshy tex- 
ture, and more or less scattered over with powdery scales. Jnflo- 
rescence axillary clusters, forming at the top of the branches, 
