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A. angustifolia. Fl. Br. 1092. Engl. BoL v. 25. t. \774. fVilld. 

 Sp. PI. v.4.9C^o. Hook. Scot. 29 1 . 



A. patula. Huds.443. With. 27 5. Light/. 637 . 



A. n. 1616. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 289. 



A. sylvestris angustifolia. Rait Syn. 151. Ger. Em. 326. f. 



A. sylvestris, polygoni aut helxines foliis. Lob. Ic. 257./. 



A. sylvestris humillima. Dod. Peinpt. 615. f. 



A. sylvestris prima. Matth. rulgr.v. 1.418./. Dalech. Hist. 536./. 



A. vulgaris angustifolia. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 973./,/. 



A. angusto oblongo folio. Bauh. Pin. 219 j with some wrong sy- 

 nonyms. 



Spear Orrach. Petiv. H. Brit, t.7 ./.5. 



Common in cultivated and waste ground. 



Annual. June — August. 



This has the general habit, and dull, greyish-green, hue of the 

 preceding, of which Haller was disposed to think it a variety, 

 and to which Linnaeus referred some of its indubitable synonyms. 

 Dr. Hooker is of the same opinion as Haller, and perhaps Lin- 

 naeus, though the latter has left no specimen to decide the ques- 

 tion. Ray kept them separate, though even his opinion was 

 disputed. ' Most British botanists have concurred with this great 

 practical observer, and there are some circumstances which 

 seem favourable to their opinion. The branches spread more 

 widely than even in J. patula; the leaves are uniformly lanceo- 

 late and entire, never toothed ; a very few of the lowermost 

 indeed have occasionally an ascending lobe at each side, but 

 their base is tapering, not straight or horizontal, like the true 

 halberd-shaped leaves of the last, nor are they sinuated or 

 toothed. The valves of the seed-bearing cahjx are hastate, with 

 an elongated acute point ; their margins entire, their disk either 

 quite smooth, or besprinkled with only a few warts. Ripe seed 

 but half the size of A. patula, and very slightly, if at all, dotted ; 

 circumstances which prove of material importance in the nearly 

 allied genus Chenopodium, but which I believe have been no where 

 noticed in Atriplex, except in the Fl. Britannica. Haller re- 

 marks that Ihe staminiferous^ou-Trs of the present plant are for 

 the most part four-cleft. 



5. A. erecta. Upright Spear-leaved Orache. 



Stem herbaceous, erect. Leaves ovate-lanceolate ; lower 

 ones sinuated. Calyx of the fruit all over armed with 

 sharp tubercles. 



A. erecta. Huds.ed.\.376. Fl.Br.]093. Engl. Bot. v. 31.1.2223. 

 Willd.v. 4.965. 



A. patula /3. Huds. ed. 2.444. 



A. angustifolia laciniata. Dill, in Rail Syn. \52. 



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