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SPECIES 1—ATRIPLEX PATULA. “Zin.” Wahl. 
Pirates MCCII. MCCIII. 
Annual. Stem herbaceous, erect or decumbent, branched; the 
branches divaricate or curved upwards and ascending at the apex, 
rarely erect. Lower leaves opposite, rhombic-elliptical or rhombic- 
triangular, wedgeshaped at the base, hastate with the cusps ascending, 
acute or subacute, entire or serrate; upper leaves mostly alternate, 
oblong-strapshaped or elliptical-strapshaped or strapshaped, ordinarily 
entire. Flowers monecious, in glomerules arranged in long rather 
dense terminal spikes, leafy at the base, leafless at the apex. Fruit 
perianth 2-valved, the valves united only at the base, rhombic or 
rhombic-deltoid or rhombic-triangular, entire or denticulate, smooth 
or muricated on the back. Seeds all vertical, rather large, finely 
rugose. Stem striped with green and white; plant deep green, more 
or less clothed with white meal. 
Var. a, angustifolia. 
Priate MCCII. 
A. angustifolia, Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1774. Bab. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. Il. 
p. 7, and Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 289. 
Stem ascending or procumbent, weak, slender; branches divaricate 
and often geniculate. Leaves entire or nearly entire, with the basal 
angle usually less than a right angle. Spikes elongate, rather lax, 
very long, arranged in slightly branched panicle. Fruit perianth 
entire, usually not muricated on the back. 
Var. P, serrata. 
A. erecta, Auct. Ang. Plur. (non Sm.). 
Stem ascending or erect, weak, slender; branches divaricate, and 
often geniculate. Lower leaves denticulate or dentate-serrate, with the 
basal angle commonly a right angle. Spikes rather short, rather dense, 
arranged in a very lax slightly “branched panicle. Fruit perianth 
usually denticulate, usually muricated on the back. 
Var. y, erecta. 
Prats MCCIII. 
A. erecta, “ Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. i. p. 376.” Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 259, Bab. Man. 
Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 279 (in part). 
A, patula, 8, muricata, “Led.” Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. HL p. 313. 
Stem erect, stout, thick; branches erect or ascending, straight. 
